1839] 



FARMERS' REGISTER, 



639 



convenient. It is very important to the interest of 

 the publisher to know as early as possible the changes 

 to be made on his list, both by withdrawals, and new 

 subscriptions added. 



The reduction of price in consideration of prompt 

 and advanced as well as combined payments, and of 

 additional subscriptions furnished, has vvoiked so well, 

 that the regulation will be made permanent, and each 

 subscriber, for the next and for each succeeding vol- 

 ume, may obtain a like reduction, by his annually re- 

 newed compliance with the like or other requisitions. 



From all recent subscribers who have been brought 

 upon the list under the new conditions, and also the old 

 subscribers who aided their admission, we especially 

 beg attention to the following remarks. 



Under the new conditions for this volume, the two 

 classes of subscribers named (being all who have 

 chosen to avail of the otfer,) have received their copies 

 of vol. 7, for the net payment to the publisher of !f«-5 

 for two volumes; or, on the general average,at half the 

 regular price for each individual subscriber. But 

 each one of these subscribers, after his payment is 

 made, stands precisely upon the same ground, and un- 

 der the sam.e terms of agreement for the future, as 

 all other subscribers heretofore, or as do all others who 

 have not made use of the privileges offered. That is, 

 each of these subscribers, like all others who have 

 paid their dues, is perfectly free to discontinue his 

 subscription before the commencement of the next 

 volume ; if not thus discon;inuing, each will have the 

 privilege of obtaining an extra copy of the next vol- 

 ume, for a new name and subscription, in the same 

 manner as was done for this volume ; and thus every 

 one, by using the means proposed in each successive 

 year, may continue to obtain his own volume every 

 year at half price. Or, by an additional privilege now 

 offered and made permanent, every person, or club, 

 sending $25 in advance, and before February 1st of 

 each year, may thereby pay for and receive 10 copies 

 of that volume, whether for old or for new subscribers. 

 Therefore, the mere forming and keeping up a club of 

 any ten or more names, will put the work to all, for 

 such prompt and joint payments, at half price. But 

 every one on the list who does not take either of these 

 steps, within the several limits of time allowed, will be 

 bound for his subscription at the regular and full price 

 of $5 the volume. 



It is true, and no less obvious, that the main induce- 

 ment to offer to supply two copies for the price of one, 

 was the expectation that most of those who thus first 

 became readers, would appreciate the value, and con- 

 tinue to be afterwards supporters of the publication. 

 But we make no claim to continued subscription on 

 that score. If, however, each one of our subscribers 

 would each year take the little trouble necessary to 

 send a new name, and thus obtain the copies at half 

 price for both — and if, with this, every subscriber who 

 desires to discontinue the work, would give proper no- 

 tice, and in due time, the publication could well bear all 

 such withdrawals, and would be all that could be rea- 

 sonably desired on the score of profit to the publisher, 



and, at the same time, of cheapness to the subscriberg. 

 It would lead to this state of things — a siifBciently 

 large number of subscribers, all paying punctually in 

 advance, and tlie v^'ork furnished to all for half price. 

 The results sought to be obtained by these offers 

 would be no less beneficial to the subscribers than to 

 the publisher ; and therefore, independent of all public 

 and patriotic considerations, they are required by self- 

 interest to lend their hearty aid. The publisher there- 

 fore presumes to ask that this aid may be given, for 

 the benefit of the' givers, and of the country at large. 

 He has no right to expect that any thing' should be 

 done merely to aid his own private interest or gain. 

 If but a slight effort were made by every subscriber, 

 the effect of the general action would be to make the 

 Farmers' Register one of the cheapest works of its 

 kind; and if the still more valued and needed a'd of 

 the pens of its readers were given as freely as it should 

 be, the value and usefulness of the work would be in- 

 creased still more than its cost would be lessened. 

 There is not one individual who may read these lines, 

 who cannot forward one or both of these most desirable 

 results. 



SUSPENSION OF PAYBIENTS BY TH3 BANKS. 



While this great public calamity continues, one of 

 our heretofore existing conditions must also, of neces- 

 sity, be suspended — that which requires payment from 

 subscribers in notes of, or checks on, " specie -paying " 

 banks. In addition to our sharing, with the community 

 at large, this general calamity, our publication must 

 suffer heavy additional loss in discount upon the pay- 

 ments of remote debtors. But we have no choice but 

 to submit; and will receive in payment the current 

 notes of any city banks, of the state in which the debt- 

 or resid<?s. North Carolina notes (which are at par in 

 Petersburg,) or notes of any bank in Virginia, will be 

 greatly preferred. Even these are now depreciated 

 here 10 per cent, and more southern notes from 10 to 

 20 below them, or from 20 to 30 per cent, below specie. 

 Such a state of things is alone sufficient to break down 

 a periodical having very wide and scattered cultiva- 

 tion ; and we despair of any bona fide resumption of 

 specie payments by the banks, or of their ever being 

 able to maintain a paper currency truly converlible into 

 xpccie. 



CONDITIONS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER, 



For the eighth and subsequent volumes. Prices still more 

 reduced, for combined and punctual or advanced 



payments. 



Art. I. The Farmers' Register is published in month- 

 ly numbers, of 64 large octavo pages each, at $'5 a 

 year, payable in advance. Or, for $5 may be had two 

 copies of the same current or forthcoming volume, for 

 neiv subscribers, if so ordered and paid for in advance, 

 (or at the time of making the subscription,) in current 

 money, as described below, (Art. VI.) and without loss 



