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JVbtices, ^c. 



Vol. IV. 



j9t a meeting of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, 

 held May 5th, 1840, the follmoing resolution was agreed 

 to, viz : 



Resolved, That the Farmers' Cabinet, published in 

 this city, and edited by James Pedder, a member of 

 this society, merits our decided approbation, inasmuch 

 asit is a means of diffusing much valuable information 

 amongst the agriculturists of our country ; and also, 



Resolved, That this society being desirous of extend- 

 ing its patronage to said periodical, pledge its exertions 

 to procure and present communications for publication 

 in its columns. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the 



4th month, April, 6.827 inches. 



John Conkad. 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, 5th mo. 1, 1840. 



Itl'This being the first number of the " Farmers' 

 Cabinet" published entirely under our control, it will 

 be sent, as a sample of the work, to some who are not 

 subscribers, but who are supposed to be interested in 

 the subjects on which it treats. 



Notice to Correspondents. 



" I. Yeates " will find his wishes anticipated. 



"Subscriber's" inquiries will be answered in our 

 farther progress. A description of the Plough will be 

 found at page 163, vol. 3 of Cabinet. 



" A. C. Ridgway " directs the leaves of the skunk 

 cabbage to be placed at the distance of six or seven 

 rows of the corn, to preserve it from the cut worm. 



" A. W.'s" suggestions are good. 



" R. C.'s " offer is accepted. 



"B." must excuse us; we shall be glad to hear from 

 him on subjects immediately connected with our work. 



" Y." in our next. 



" Agricola's" excellent paper " On the Analysis of 

 Limestone," was read before the Agricultural Society 

 of Philadelphia, and handed for publication in the 

 "Farmers' Cabinet." 



All communications should be sent in, post paid, 

 before the first of the month. 



To Post Masters. 



To the liberality of the Post Office department the 

 science of agriculture is greatly indebted. For a single 

 cent, our publication is enabled to make its way 

 through a circle, two hundred miles in diameter, while 

 for half a cent additional it is conveyed to the farthest 

 point of the Union, we trust to be read by many 

 thousands, and to communicate to them the experience 

 of their agricultural brethren throughout the land. 



To the POST MASTERS of the several stations we 

 look, as amongst the immediate friends of our work, 

 in carrying out the liberal designs of the department, 

 by consenting to act as agents in distributing informa- 

 tion, which will, we believe, prove of more real im- 

 portance to our country than that of all the other 

 sciences combined — teaching the art of making Bread. 

 We presume that many of these are themselves now 

 practically engaged in this most useful occupation ; 

 while all must feel vitally interested in the success of 

 a work which professes to be a vehicle by which per- 

 sons from one end of the Union to the other might 

 become acquainted with the success of their brethren 

 in that honourable, that noble employment. May we 

 bespeak their kind offices in dispensing the " Farmers' 

 Cabinet," and will they credit us with the assurance, 

 that nothing will be wanting on our part, so far as our 

 ability extends, to make it a work worthy their best 

 regards. 



To Subscribers. 



The embellishments of the present number are fair 

 specimens of our intentions in that line. The cow, 

 " MISS POINTS," is the first of a series of Portraits 

 of the Durham short horns, which we trust we shall be 

 enabled, by our subscription list, to continue to present 

 to our friends periodically. The next number will con- 

 tain the portrait of a bull of that fine breed ; and it is 

 intended to follow the same course of publication with 

 the horse, in its different and distinct breeds; the sheep, 

 the hog, &,c., trusting that we shall receive such eii- 

 couragement as will enable us to do justice to the work 

 upon which we have entered ; it being our wish to 

 render the " Farmers' Cabinet" worthy the support of 

 the state and country. 



As the Publishers and Editor intend to spare no 

 reasonable exertion to render the Cabinet a standard 

 work of reference, they would recommend that on the 

 receipt of the numbers they should be stitched and 

 Carefully cut open, so as to preserve them in suitable 

 condition for binding at the end of each year; when, 

 if returned to the publishers, in good order, they will 

 be neatly and substantially half-bound and lettered at 

 twenty-five cents per volume, of twelve numbers each. 

 Copies of the first, second, and third volumes may yet 

 be had at one dollar per volume, in numbers, or one 

 dollar and twenty-five cents half bound. Thoy may 

 be forwarded by mail in numbers at newspaper postage, 

 but the bound volumes cannot be sent by mail. 



We refer our friends to the terms of subscription 

 stated below. 



Philadelphia, 5th mo. 15, 1840. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



IS PUBLISHED BY 



KIMBER & SHARPLESS, No. 50 NORTH FOURTH STREET, PHH^ADELPHIA. 



It is edited by James Pedder, and is issued on the 

 fift(!enth of each month, in numbers of thirty-two 

 octavo pages each, printed on good paper and new type. 

 The subjects will be illustrated by engravings, when- 

 ever they can be appropriately introduced. Teums.— 

 One dollar per annum, payable in advance. By the de- 

 cision of the Post Master General, the " Cabinet," is 

 subject only to newspaper postage; that is one cent 

 on each number within the state, or within one 

 hundred miles of the place of publication out of the 

 state, — and one cent and a half on each number to 

 any other part of the United States— and Post Masters 



are at liberty to receive subscriptions, and forward 

 them to the Publishers under their frank— thus afford- 

 ing an opportunity for all who wish the work, to order 

 and pay f"r it without expense of postage. 



All subscriptions must begin with the volume No. 1, 

 or with the half volume, No. 7. 



For five dollars paid in advance, seven copies will 

 be forwarded for one year. Complete seta of the work 

 may bi; had at one dollar per volume, in numbers, or 

 SI 'i5 half bound and lettered, subject to a similar dis- 

 count where seven copies or more are ordered at one 

 time. 



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