THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, aud Rural and Domestic Economy. 



Vol. IV.-No. 9.] 



4tli mo. 15tli,( April,) 1S40. 



[AVhoIe No. 63. 



KIMBBR <fo SHARPIiESS, 



PROPRIETORS AND PUBLISHERS, 



No. 50 North Fourth street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 

 Price one dollar per year.— For conditions see last page. 



vaijEdictory address. 



With the present number of the Cabinet, 

 our connection with that work is at an end, 

 having disposed of our entire interest in it, 

 to Messrs. Kimber &, Sharpless, of this 

 city, by whom the work will hereafter be 

 published. It affords us much pleasure to 

 announce those gentlemen as the future pub- 

 lishers of the Cabinet. Their well earned 

 reputation as business men, of sterling in 

 tegrity in their transactions, and the fact that 

 whatever they do, as publishers, is well done, 

 furnishes a sufficient guaranty that our sub- 

 scribers, and the public, will lose nothing by 

 the change of proprietorship. 



To a large portion of the community, these 

 gentlemen are too well known to require any 

 commendation from us ; but we would say, 

 to our personal friends, and others of our 

 readers, who have not made their acquaint- 

 ance, that they possess every desirable facili- 

 ty for making an agricultural publication 

 useful and interesting, and to print it in the 

 best style of the art We feel assured that 

 their able superintendence will enhance the 

 value, and improve the appearance of the 

 Cabinet 



The editorial supervision of the work has 

 been committed to Mr. James Peddkr ; in 

 our opinion a very happy and judicious selec- 

 tion. Mr. Pedder has been bred a farmer, 

 and is a practical man ; his opportunities for 

 study and observation have been extensive 

 and well improved. j 



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As a good, plain, practical writer, Mr. 

 Pedder is well known to most of our readers, 

 and to them we can pass no higher encomium 

 upon his capability to .fill the station assigned 

 him, than to announce the fact, that a large 

 part of the best articles which have appeared 

 in the Cabinet from its commencement, have 

 emanated from his pen. 



On retiring from our connection with the 

 Cabinet, we may be permitted to remark, 

 that our success in the enterprize has far ex- 

 ceeded our expectations. The first number 

 of the work was issued without a single sub- 

 scriber, under circumstances of much dis- 

 couragement, by almost entire strangers in 

 the state ; and our obligation to the public, 

 and the light in which our humble labours 

 have been estimated, may be inferred from 

 the fact that our circulation has exceeded an 

 average of seven thousand annually. 



Those correspondents whose communica- 

 tions have enriched our columns, will please 

 accept a repetition of our thanks, and oblige 

 us by transferring their kind attentions to the 

 future publishers. 



To our brethren of the press, we present 

 our acknowledgments for their many acts of 

 courtesy, and expressions of good will. We 

 shall cherish a grateful recollection of the 

 favours be.stowed upon us, and trust the 

 Farmers' Cabinet will continue a favourite 

 with the intelligent community who have 

 hitherto so nobly sustained it. 



We leave our friends and patrons with our 

 best wishes for their prosperity and happi- 

 ness ; and the publication of an agricultural 

 journal, for one more congenial to our habits 

 and feelings, and one for which we consider 

 ourselves better qualified. 



JOHN LIBBY. 



