SOLON ROBINSON, 1839 109 



have told me so; and I now here tell you that I have 

 neglected my duty. Reader, have you neglected yours? 

 did you write a letter to your paper, and because it was 

 not published, say you would never write another? Did 

 you say further, that you would never subscribe for the 

 paper again? Shame on you then, — Oh! you was only 

 angry a few minutes, — you're over it now, and think 

 yours the best paper in the world. You think you made 

 an hundred dollars more off of your farm last year in 

 consequence of taking it. So do I. I'll tell you another 

 thing that I think. I think that the readers of the Albany 

 Cultivator alone, made $50,000 more in their various 

 occupations last year in consequence of reading it; 

 and equally so of the New-England Farmer, 1 — The Gen- 

 esee Farmer, 2 — the Franklin Farmer, 3 — the American 

 Farmer, 4 and so on of every good farmer's paper, in 

 just proportion. There is another thing I think; that the 

 increased value of those readers' farms is twenty times 

 the above sum. There is another thing I think; think, 

 why, I know it. I know it by my own feelings. I know 

 that the increased happiness of those readers was worth 

 twenty times more than all the increase of property. 

 Suppose then that the circulation was doubled, — yes, but 

 don't every body subscribe that wants to, now? No, not 

 half. But you can get them to — and it is your duty to 

 do it; you an't able to pay for any papers to give any. 

 Who asked you to do it? There is your neighbor Jones 

 that always is reading yours when he can get a chance, 

 and who never has a dollar that he thinks he can spare 

 to pay the subscription ; would be glad to take the paper 

 and pay you in chopping wood. Now do you think you 



1 New England Farmer, published at Boston, Massachusetts. 

 Established 1822. 



2 Genesee Farmer, published at Rochester, New York. Estab- 

 lished 1831. 



"Franklin Farmer, published at Frankfort, Kentucky. Estab- 

 lished 1837. 



* American Farmer, published at Baltimore, Maryland. Estab- 

 lished 1819. 



