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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 3. 



ham and Cumberland,) in a letter, without the writer's 

 address, and concerning which we have written twice, 

 and as yet in vain, and to different persons, to try to find 

 out how to return the remittance. 



TO COURESPONDEXTS AND READERS. 



The advanced publication of one No. has served to 

 bring forward all the mass of communications on hand, 

 and we are now desirous of receiving, and ready to 

 pay due and prompt attention to all others that may be 

 soon sent in. So far as circumstances permit, we aim 

 to publish communications as soon as possible after 

 they are received and found suitable. None are held 

 back to equalize the monthly publication of original 

 matter: and therefore it may well happen, however 

 abundant may be the supplies in general, that some 

 Nos. may exhibit a deficiency. The first occurrence 

 of that kind will be embraced to republish some old 

 and long articles which well deserve to be made better 

 known in this country, and which have been long ago 

 selected with that view, but have been postponed for 

 articles of present and more transient interest. Among 

 these, are Strickland's Observations on the Agricul- 

 ture, &,c. of the United States, which it is believed 

 has never been republished in this country, and has 

 been seen only by a few of our farmers, in the bulky 

 and very costly transactions of the British Board of 

 Agriculture. 



NOTICES TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



Our subscribers at a distance, who are supplied 

 through cross mail routes, have scarcely had the means 

 of knowing, and therefore have not given due credit 

 for the rare degree of punctuality with which this 

 journal has been issued. During the whole time in 

 which we have used the present publication office, the 

 delivery of one monthly number only has been more 

 than two days from the first day of any month — and 

 then the delay of a few more days was made necessa- 

 ry by the editor's unavoidable absence, after the prin- 

 ting was completed. But delays, owing to various 

 circumstances, sometimes occur after the packages are 

 committed to the mail, and some of the post offices 

 within 150 miles distance, may not receive their pack- 

 ages within two weeks after they have been mailed. 

 Some causes of delay may be removed by changing 

 one route from another — as sometimes the longest of 

 two is the most speedy, or at least the most sure. 

 Any information which can be furnished by postmast- 

 ers or subscribers, pointing out proper changes of this 

 kind, will be thankfully received. On the covers of 

 this No. the day of mailing and departure will be sta- 

 ted, with the view of aiding such inquiries. 



{^Subscribers are requested to read at least once 

 the terms of publication. This request may appear 

 superfluous and idle — but we often receive letters ma- 

 king inquiries, or professing ignorance of some of the 

 plainest matters stated in the terms, and from old sub- 

 scribers who have had them printed in more than a do- 

 zen of the copies which they have received. 



NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. 



To each of the known contributors to the original 

 matter of the Farmers' Register now on the subscrip- 

 tion list, (not counting extracts of private correspon- 

 dence,) a copy of the Supplement, containing the 2nd 

 edition of the Essay on Calcareous Manures, has been 

 presented, and sent by mail. Some persons have been 

 necessarily passed over, for want of knowing their pro- 

 per names or address — and probably others by mistake. 

 It is requested that all such omissions may be made 

 known, and they will be promptly supplied. 



When stating in general terms, some months ago, 

 the number of individuals who had written for the 

 Farmers' Register, it was done without much regard to 

 exactness, and only taking care not to state too large a 

 number. Upon making a careful examination at the 

 close of Vol.11, it was found that the prior statement 

 was much below the truth, and that the actual number 

 of contributors then was 215. The names of much 

 the greater proportion of these r still are subscribers to 

 the Farmers' Register, and it is hoped that all will con- 

 tinue to add to their former favors — and in every suc- 

 cessive publication there are presented the contribu- 

 tions of new and welcome aids. To all these friends 

 we are indebted for the very existence of this work — 

 and heavy as our obligation is admitted to be, still more 

 of benefit has been conferred, by these contributions, 

 on the agricultural community in general. 



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1. The Farmers' Register is published in monthly 

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 covered, at $5 a year — payable in advance. 



2. Or five new subscribers by sending their names 

 and $20 at one time to the editor, will receive their 

 copies for one year, for that sum, or at $4 for each. 

 Purchasers of any 5 volumes (except Vol. I.) at one 

 time in like manner, shall have them for $20. 



3. 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. 



4. For all copies not received by mail, duplicates 

 will be furnished to those subscribers who have com- 

 plied with their own obligations. 



5. 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 ano- 

 ther year. Subscriptions must commence with the 

 beginning of some one volume, and will not be taken 

 for less than a year's publication. 



6. The mutual obligations of the publisher and sub- 

 scriber, 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 per- 

 mitted. Nor will a subscription be discontinued for 

 any earlier notice, while any thing thereon remains 

 due, unless at the option of the editor. 



