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F A R M E R S ' REGISTER 



[No. 12 



months, to act on this subject. This may tend 

 to retard the improvements which are now in 

 embryo. An advance in the price of the stock of 

 the existing banks has resulted from this neglect, 

 and 118 to 120 per cent, is now spoken of for Vir- 

 ginia and Farmer's bank stocks. Petersburg Rail 

 Road shares command 119 — Greensville and 

 Roanoke $8 or $9 advance on $35 paid. The 

 subscription to the R ileigh and Gaston Road, 

 which is re-opened. for a limited amount, is freely 

 taken, and the work is commenced.. 



The cotton manufacturing establishments are 

 in a thriving state. The stocks of those in Pe- 

 tersburg, which are now in operation, command 

 25percen1. premium, or more. Their goods are 

 in request in all the southern, and some of the 

 northern markets. 



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March 25th, 1836. 



TO SUESRIBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. 



This number will close the third volume of the 

 Farmers' Register. The index will be sent with No. 

 1. of Vol. 4, and at the same time, a list of subscribers 

 for the present volume. The subscription list, neither 

 at this, or any other time, can be supposed to exhibit 

 the extent of the circulation and support of this jour- 

 nal — as very many new subscribers order all the back 

 volumes: and in that manner, this later demand, here- 

 tofore has been for nearly 200 copies of each of 

 the two first volumes, and will probably not be less 

 hereafter, for the third, in addition to all the names 

 which are now on the list. According to the actual 

 list, the number of subscribers has been slowly but 

 regularly increasing through the three years. What is 

 better than mere numbers, it is believed that the Far- 

 mers' Register, on the whole, has at least as good a 

 paying list of subscribers, as any journal in the United 

 States. The pecuniary support has been such as we 

 have every reason to ba content with, and thankful for, 

 it it should ba continued without diminution. But 

 to deserve and command a continuation, or increase, of 

 support and patronage for an agricultural journal, de- 

 pends but in a small degree on its editor — and no effort 

 on his part will compensate for the absence, or scarcity, 

 of the contributions of the many practical farmers, 

 who can, and ought to be his correspondents. Such 

 communications have heretofore formed the main va- 

 lue of this journal — and its greater or less future use- 

 fulness must depend on the degree of abundance, or 

 scarcity, of supplies from such sources. A periodical 

 that ceases to gain on the public favor, is almost cer- 

 tain to be losing what it had enjoyed — and especially 

 for a journal like this, a good subscription list ior any 

 one valurne, is no guarantee for the profit of the next. 

 We therefore presume to remind our friends that a re- 

 laxation of effort to sustain the publication, may soon 

 change its prosperous condition to one of decline, and 

 even ruin. 



Various things connected with our peculiar position, 

 and private circumstances, together with the novelty 

 of the undertaking in this region, have at did'erent 

 times affected injuriously the mechanical execution of 



this work. The causes of such effects have never 

 been voluntarily permitted to exist, nor were they pro- 

 duced by any wish to avoid making proper and suffi- 

 cient expenditures — and every offence to the eye, 

 in the quality of paper, or of printing, has been to us 

 a source of deep regret and mortification. Such 

 things are scarcely to be avoided at all times, in the in- 

 fancy of such an establishment, or in a publication of- 

 fice on a very small scale, where the deprivation or 

 neglect of a single facility, or means, may cause se- 

 rious injury to the execution of a work, when the pub- 

 lication cannot be delayed. We have found that it is 

 impossible to have first-rate printing executed, at all 

 times, upon a single publication alone — and "on that 

 account, and to insure the command of sufficient and 

 suitable labor and facilities at all times, we are now 

 inclining the expense and risk of establishing a job 

 printing office, which, for book work, especially, will 

 be equal to any in the state. The necessary arrange- 

 ments are made, and are just now in operation — and 

 whether we may gain or lose by this extension of busi- 

 ness, the measure will be the means of insuring the print- 

 ing the future volumes of the Farmers'Register to be bet- 

 ter than any previous one. It is also hoped that our 

 experience-of paper-makers, and sellers, has been 

 bought dearly enough to secure us hereafter from such 

 impositions as we were compelled to submit to, {aad 

 without even any saving in price,) in parts of the first 

 and second volumes. There has been no such fault 

 more recently, as to the quality of paper — and it is ex- 

 pected that the existing arrangements will prevent 

 any future complaint on this score. In every other 

 respect, no effort, or reasonable and proper expense, 

 will be spared to render the publication deserving of 

 all the favor and support that it may receive. 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF HEW YORK. 



The Secretary of State of New York, acting under 

 the previous order of the legislature, has reported a 

 plan for a geological survey of that state, on a liberal 

 and magnificent scale. The details of the plan we 

 will publish hereafter. According to the eatimate of the 

 report, the survey and publications connected witii it, 

 will cost $104,000, and lour years time and labor will 

 be required for the complete execution. The legisla- 

 ture has approved the report, and appropriated $26,000 

 for the operations of the first year. 



SEASON AND STATE OF CROPS. 



Though another month has passed since our last re- 

 marks on the season, and that, the one which usually 

 brings the most marked changes of temperature, and 

 movements of vegetation, yet the words then used 

 would be nearly correct now. In all March, there 

 have been but two or three days mild enough to suit 

 the time of year — and as late as this day, the 25th, win- 

 ter weather continues. Vegetation has scaicely begun 

 ■ — and the general predominance of wet, as well as of 

 cold weather, has made the preparation of land ior 

 spring crops even more late than the commencement of 

 spring weather. 



