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JVotice to Subscribers. 



Vol. IV. 



Notice to Subscribers. 



By the publication of the present number, tlie fourth 

 volume of the Farmers' Cabinet is completed. The 

 four volumes, neatly bound and lettered, and forming 

 an imi)orlant register of events, and a valuable work 

 of reference to all who are concerned in the cultiva- 

 tion of the soil, may now be obtained of tlie publish- 

 ers. Subscribers wishing to complete their sets may 

 do so ; and on forwarding to the publishers the num- 

 bers which they may have on hand as above, the vol- 

 umes will be made up, and bound to any pattern. 



The tirst number of the fifth volume of the Cabinet 

 will be published on the 15th of next month, under the 

 title of " The Farmers' Cabinet and American Herd 

 Book, devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural 

 Affairs:" and it will be embellished with two engrav- 

 ings, the portraits of a thorough-bred Durham Bull, and 

 tJie Clydesdale or Farmer's Horse. 



It is the wish of the proprietors of the Farmers' 

 Cabinet, to reiuler it a work worthy the notice and 

 support of the state and the country. Already it is 

 identified with the Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, 

 and is become the medium of communication between 

 that body and the agricultural community; and it is 

 their desire still to increase its usefulness. To this 

 end, they will foel pleasure in adopting the proposal, 

 that tlie Cabinet shall also become the medium of com- 

 munication between the breeders of fine stock in this 

 and the adjoining states, and more distant parts of the 

 Union, "whereby information relating to that vital 

 branch of rural affairs might become known and be 

 recorded ;" as it is believed this city affords greater ad- 

 vantages than any other place for carrying out such a 

 design. They, therefore, offer a portion of its pages, 

 in which to portray, in an improved style of engraving, 

 animals of high blood — the Horse, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, 

 &c. — taken from drawings made for the purpose, on 

 the following conditions : The breeders or owners to 

 be at the expense of furnishing perfect portraits of the 

 animals, reduced to a scale suitable to the pages of the 

 work, and for which scale they are referred to those 

 specimens already published in this and the two pre- 

 ceding numbers of the Cabinet ; viith the understand- 

 ing that they shall be finished in a superior style of 

 penciling, and be real portraits of living animals. 

 The proprietors will then undertake the expense and 

 care of engraving and publishing them, to the best ad- 

 vantage; — accompanying each portrait with the name 

 of the individual, its pedigree, by whom bred or owned 

 — these particulars being, of course, furnished for pub- 



lication by the owner— and other notices which might 

 be deemed of interest to the breeders of fine stock 

 generally. 



The " Cabinet" will still continue to be devoted to 

 whatever is of importance in the pursuits of " Agri- 

 culture, Florticulture, and Rural Affairs ;" and arrange- 

 ments have been made to enable the publishers to keep 

 pace with the improved state of those sciences of 

 which it treats. The increasing interest with which 

 the subjects of agriculture and husbandry are viewed 

 at the present moment by all classes of the community, 

 and the spirit of improvement which is gone abroad 

 through the length and breadth of the land, in relation 

 to the culture of the soil, and other legitimate branches 

 of the profession — and especially in the breeding of 

 improved stock — would seem to warrant the proprietors 

 in the expectation of a corresponding feeling in the 

 support of a work devoted, in an especial manner, to 

 those important objects. And they invite the friends 

 of agricultural improvement to a free correspondence 

 in its pages, on all subjects of interest, whether re- 

 lating to the rearing of cattle, the culture of the soil, 

 or the husbandry of their crops. 



Philadelphia, 1th mo. 15th, 1840. 



SlJ'Those Subscribers who have not already paid for 

 the fifth volume, will please remit the amount of the 

 bills inclosed in this number, and a receipt will be for- 

 warded to them with the first number of the volume. 



Any arrears on account of back volumes are to be 

 paid to John Libby, and not to the present publishers. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the 



6th month, (June,) was 5.95 inches. 



John Conrad. 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, July 1, 1840. 



ilJ°Wc take pleasure in announcing that it is the in- 

 tention of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society's Com- 

 niiitee on Premiums to make arrangements for a grand 

 " Ploughing Match," to take place some time before the 

 day of exhibition of stock, &c., to enable the judges to 

 report and award premiums for the same, on the day 

 a|)puinted for that general purpose. Our friends will 

 then enjoy the opportunity of having the question of the 

 " best plough " set to rest ; and the best thanks of the 

 asricultural community are due to the committee for 

 such an occasion— look out, therefore, for the best plough 

 avd ploughivg. 



Would the committee permit us to suggest the pro- 

 priety of submitting the question to the test of the 

 dynanometer, which could, we presume, be obtained 

 through Mr. Prouty for that purpose. Ed. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



IS PUBLISHED BY 



KIMBER •& SHARPLESS, No. 50 NORTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 



It is edited byJAMES Pehder, and is issued on the 

 fifteenth of every month, in numbers of 32 octavo 

 pages each. The subjects will be illustrated by engrav- 

 ings, whenever they can be appropriately introduced. 



Terms. — One dollar per annum, or five dollars for 

 seven copies — always payable ih advance. 



All subscriptions rfiust commence with the beginning 

 of a volume. Any of the back volumes may be had 

 at one dollar each, in numbers, or one dollar and 

 twenty-five rents half bound and lettered. 



For five dollars paid in advance, a complete set of 

 the work will be furnished ; including the first four 

 vo]\itneeilmlf bound, and the fifth volume in. numbers, to 1 



he forwarded as fast as published. Copies returned to 

 the ofiice of publication will be neatly half bound and 

 lettered at twenty-five cents per volume. 



By the decision 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 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 affording an 

 opportunity to all who wish it, to obtain the work, and 

 pay for it without expense of postage. 



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