1838] 



FARMERS' REGISTER 



63 



NEW CONDITIONS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



The price reduced for the current and back volumes, and a further rcductlim proposed for the next. 



I. The Faruiors' ll?.jister is published in monthly munbers, of 64 laryje octnvo pnges each, and neatly co- 

 vnred, at S'J a year — payable in advance. Or tliree new subscribers, by sendiiig,' their names and .'jflO at one 

 time to the editor, free of postas^e, and of every other deduction from the amount, shall receive Iheir copies/or 

 one year, for that sum, or at i$3.'M for each. Purchasers of any tiiree volumes (except Vol. I.) at one time, 

 in like manner, sliall have them for $10. [This reduction of price will be made on all suitable orders dated 

 after April 20th.] 



II. The risk of loss of payments for subscriptions, which have been properly committed to the mail, or to 

 the hands of a postmaster, is assumed by the' editor. All mail payments must be mape in notes, or 

 CHECKS, OF PAR VALUE IN VIRGINIA; and thesc, and all Other letters, (except such as contain articles for 

 publication,) must be post paid. 



III. For all copies not received by mail, at the proper post offices, duplicates will be furnished to those sub- 

 scribers who have complied with their own obligations; provided that the failure shall be notified through the 

 postmaster, and within two months after the date of the miscarried copy. 



IV. If a subscription is not directed to be discontinued before the first number of the next volume has been 

 published, it will be taken as a continuance for another year. Subscriptions must commence with the begin- 

 ning of some one volume, and will not be taken for less than a year's publication. 



V. The mutual obligations of the publisher and subscriber, for the year, are fully incurred as soon as the 

 first number of the volume is issued; and after that time, no discontinuance of a subscription will be permit- 

 ted. Nor will a subscription be discontinued for any earlier notice, while any thing thereon remains due, un- 

 less at the option of the editor — (or in obedience to tiie regulations of the Editorial Convention, copied below. ) 



VI. Any five old subscribers, by paying for any current volume $.-20 directly to the editor, at any one time 

 before the issue of its second number, and without causing any charge for postage or agency, shall be 

 credited for their five copies for the year so paid for — thus reducing the price to $4 for each. 

 This privilege, of course, ceases, for each volume, as soon as its 2nd number is issued — and no subscriber can 

 use it, who is indebted for a previous year, unless his arrears are paid at the same time. 



New Condition, offered for the 7th volinne only. 



Each subscriber to the Farmers' Register, for the present (6lh) volume, (or any person who may hereafter 

 subscribe for it,) who has paid for the same when the proposed arrangement shall take place, may, by sending 

 the names of three neiv subscribers, for volume 7, at any one time previous to January 1, i8.3f), accompanied by 

 a post-paid current baidmote, or check for ten dollars, shall have credit for his own payment for volume 7, 

 in addition to that for the tiiree new subscribers; the four copies, of that volume only, being thus supplied for 

 ten dollars.* 



General Regulations adopted by the Editorial Convention. 



The following resolutions of the Editorial Convention of Virginia, will hereafter form part of the condi- 

 tions of the Farmers' Register, and will be strictly observed. 



1. "All subscriptions shall hereafter be considered as incurred and due in advance, and for a year's publica- 

 tion, unless specially ordered for a shorter time, and paid for in advance lor that shorter time, when so or- 

 dered. 



2. "No publication shall be sent to the order of any new and unknown subscriber, unless paid for in advance, 

 or satisfifictory reference be made to some known and accessible person in regard to the subscriber or his pay- 

 ment. But, in case of an order for a publication, without payment, from a new subscriber who is unacquaint- 

 ed with the conditions, a single number may be sent, containing, or accompanied by, a copy of this 

 regulation. 



3. "The names of all subscribers, whose ability to pay may be unknown to the publisher, and who may re- 

 main indebted on open account at the end of two years, from the time when thf advanced payment was due, 

 shall be erased from the list of subscribers." [Resolutions of {lie Editorial Convention of Va. 



Address — Edmund Ruffin, 



April 12th, 1838. Editor of Farmers' Register, Petersburg, Va. 



* For reasons which vvil! be hereafter ftatcd, it i- designed to conclude the present volume on December 31, 1638 — by issuing 

 two numbers in advance of the regular times of publication. Therefore, the next and succeeding volumes will begin with the 

 year. This change of time will be convenient in many respects, and is especially required for an agricultural journal. 



to the friends and supporters of thb 

 farmers' register. 



The attention of every subscriber and friend to the 

 Farmers' Register, is requested to the new alterations, 

 and temporary additional article, in the general con- 

 ditions of publication; and as many as can, with con- 

 venience, avail of the advantages offered by the latter, 

 are requested to do so, not only for the benefit of the 

 individuals concerned, but for the purpose of extend- 

 ing the circulation and the influence of the work, and 

 thereby gi-eatly increasing its useful operation. It is 

 believed that almost every subscriber now on the list, 



might, with the inducements thus ofTered, obtain at 

 least three new subscribers among his neighbors; and 

 those who deem and declare the present and previous 

 operation of the Farmet's Register to be highly bene- 

 ficial to the impiovement of agriculture, have still 

 stronger motives to urge to the effort; and they can 

 well estimate the increased benefit to the public, thus 

 to be obtained by a quadrupled publication and distri- 

 bution of the w"ork. We should rejoice at reaching 

 such a general result, even though the nett profits were 

 not to be increased in the least thereby. 

 The expenses of printing, however, decrease still 



