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more rapidly than the arnotmt of sales of a publication 

 increases by a greater demand; and therefore, we shall 

 not lose any thinf;; by any extent of the use of the 

 privilege now offered. And if this abatement of 

 price should finally serve to gi v a list of subscribers 

 increased four-lold, then that wliich is now oiiered as 

 an experiment of a temporary measure, of special and 

 limited application, may safely be made permanent 

 and general, by reducing the price of the Faiuiers' 

 Register to a lower rate than any publication, of worth 

 or character, has ever yet been oiiered in the southerii 

 states. 



If by the legislative action of any state, or of any 

 public spirited association of individuals, a suiiicieutly 

 large sale of this work was guarantied to the publish- 

 er, the price might be reduced, for that state, to but a 

 little more than double that of as much blank paper; 

 and when the sales were once made equal to so large 

 a supply, of this or any really useful agricultural jour- 

 nal, the demand would doubtless continue, at so low a 

 price; and the sustaining aid of public patronage, as 

 security against loss, would no longer be required. It 

 is doubtful whether any other mode of extending the 

 knowledge, and the improvement, of agriculture, 

 would be so eii'ectual and so cheap. But this, or any 

 other legislative aid to agricultural instruction and im- 

 provement, is out of the question, at least in Virginia; 

 ar^d therefore the experiment now proposed, appeals' 

 to individual interests, and has regard to the action 

 and patriotism of individuals only. 



It is indispensable for those who mean to benefit the 

 publication and themselves, as well as the agricultural 

 interest in general, by making use of this offered pri- 

 vilege, that they should do so before the close of vol- 

 ume 6; as the increase of number of the copies of 

 volume 7 must be then determined on, and cannot af- 



terwards be altered. It is to allow full time for the 

 usual slow movements of subscribers that this early no- 

 tification IS made. 



Should this offer prove acceptable to a large number 

 of our present subscribers, it will have other very bene- 

 ficial results, in causing payments to be made prompt 

 and certain, and relieving the publication of the pre- 

 sent heav}' expenses of commissions paid to collectors, 

 postage oa remittances, and most of the many and 

 total losses of debts for subscriptions. These several 

 items, in distant places, and where the subscribers are 

 few and widely dispersed, consume nearly the whole 

 profit of those subsciibers, similarly located, who are 

 both punctual and generous patrons. 



It is hoped th t no person who may choose to avail 

 himself of the proposed reduction of price, will forget 

 that the very foundation on which it rests, and by 

 which alone it can be afforded, is that, in relation to 

 all such subscriptions, the publication is to be entirely 

 relieved of all expenses and losses of postage, ex- 

 change of uncurrent money, und every other chaige, 

 save the furnishing the work according to the 'Gene- 

 ral Conditions' of the publication. According to those 

 conditions, the loss of money remitted by mail, in these 

 as in other cases, is still at the risk of the publisher, 

 and all numbers of the work, lost by mail, are to be 

 re-supplied — both losses being duly authenticated, as 

 required in the general conditions annexed. 



Any subscriber who may have paid in advance for 

 volume 7, may still have the benefit offered above, of 

 four subscriptions for ^'10, except that his second pay- 

 ment, so included, will be placed to his credit either 

 for another copy of volume 7, for some other named 

 new subscriber, or for any other back volume (except 

 vol. 1,) for himself, as he may choose and direct, at 

 the time of sending the order. 



Table of Contents of Wurmers'^ Mesister. JVo. 1 , F*©!. F*!. 



ORIGINAL COMMriVICATIOKS. 



Statements of particular and general manage- 

 ment and products, in Fairfax, - - . 1 

 Liming on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, - 2 

 The law of subsistence and occupation con- 

 sidered, in relation to the agricultural im- 

 provement and general welfare of the 

 country, ----... 7 



The wire worm. ]5 



Remarks on agricultural hobbies and humbugs, 47 

 Plan and description of.an excellent gate, and' 



a coulter, ---....53 



Buck-wheat cakes 5g 



Mading and liming in New Jersey, - - 56 

 Disasters on railways and steam vessels, - .56 

 The persimmon tree and the beer dance, - 5s 

 Remarks on 'Johnstone's Treatise on Drain- 

 ing, Embankments, &c.' - . . - gj 

 Monthly Commercial Report, - - - 61 

 Conditions of Farmers' Register, - - - 53 



Address to the friends and supporters of the 



Farmers' Register, 63 



SELECTIOAS. 



Page. 



The rail-road steamer, 3 



The trade from the west by the James river 



and Kanawha improvement, ... 5 



The necessity of great care in selecting stone 



for locks, aqueducts, Sec, - . . . 6 



Peat, 1.3 



On the value of human excrements as manure, 15 



The raft in Red River 16 



Johnstone's 'Treatise on Draining,' &c. con- 

 tinued, 17 



Do. on Embankments, of sea-shores — rivers 

 — lakes — to prevent inundation — straight- 

 ening rivers and smaller streams — construc- 

 tion of dams across rivers, &c. kc. - - 46 

 Egyptian (or many headed) wheat, - - 46 

 J.iyce's new mode of heating, and economiz- 

 ing fuel, 62 



