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To Subscribers. — To Postmasters. 



Vol. VI. 



To Subscribers. 



Thb science of agriculture is at length bosinning to 

 demand from tliecornniiinity the regard which has ever 

 been its due. In all parts of the world it is receiving 

 the h(inia:;e of the great and wise, the learned and the 

 powerful ; kings and princes and the nobles of all lands 

 are vying with each other in Hie attempt to subserve 

 its purposes, and in the most distant re^rions of the 

 earth are its demands heard and acknowledged by all 

 classes and denominations. 



In no country, however, ought it to be more highly 

 cherished than in this; blest as we are with a soil of 

 unbounded extent and fertility, with fruitful and early 

 seasonsS^ vast amount of population, and a prospect 

 of future \ vl|.|)cing and prosperity ;— in such a land it 

 is, that the sen . '« and practice of agriculture should 

 take precedence of aT. other occupations and employ- 

 ments; for what would become of the immense masses 

 of people which immigration is bringing to our shores, 

 and trade and commerce are forcing into existence, 

 were it not for the all-creating power of agriculture ! 

 It is from this source they can alone be fed, in nil the 

 vicissitudes of commercial advance and decline; for it 

 is evident that no means can be adapted to an increase 

 of population, but the incessant cultivation of the soil! 



Nothing is so well calculated to subserve this great 

 cause as the periodical publication of what is taking 

 place on the important subject amongst the cultivators 

 of the soil around us ; thus forming a medium of com- 

 munication and register of events between distant 

 parts of the country, by which each might know what 

 others are doing, and be taught by practical e.Tperience, 

 the best means of obtaining the end in view. 



The Farmers' Cabinet, now in its sixth year of pub- 

 lication, is peculiarly devoted to this purpose ; its pages 

 are open to contributors, who also might wish to use 

 them for the purpose of inquiring what are the pros- 

 pects and usages of their fellow-labourers in the cause 

 throughout the world. Such an interchange of good 

 offices and kind feelings must tend to the furtherance 

 of the object in view, and stimulate the best powers of 

 the mind and body towards its attainment. 



To Postmasters. 



The franking privilege in aid of the agricultural 

 press of the country, which has been extended by the 

 liberality of the general government to all postmasters, 



has given them the enviable opportunity to assist, in 

 a most efficient manner, in the spread of agricultural 

 science, throughout the length and breadth of the land 

 — and numerous are the proofs we are constantly re- 

 ceiving, that such a privilege has not been conferred j« 

 vniii. We are aware, however, that their influence has 

 oRen been solicited in aid of trivial and unworthy pub- 

 lications; and it is not, therefore, matter of surprise, 

 if some of them should be inclined to reject applications 

 of this kind, without much examination into the real 

 merits of the work. 



We readily admit that no periodical is fairly entitled 

 to the benefit of this liberal provision, which is not 

 calculated to advance the substantial interests of the 

 community — and to this test we would confidently re- 

 fer the claims of the " Farmers' Cabinet," while we so- 

 licit the kind co-operation of postmasters throughout 

 the Union, by promoting its circulation in their respec- 

 tive neighbourhoods; and we think they would be wil. 

 ling to do this, if they would only reflect on the great 

 benefits they might thus bestow on their country, in 

 the way of furthering the success of one of the noblest 

 of causes, and adding, in an eminent degree, to the 

 spread of that science which is enabling us to feed t/is 

 hungry even of those countries, to which not long since 

 we were looking for the means of subsistence. By their 

 kind co-operation we are enabled to transact business 

 in the most distant parts of the Union, their agency 

 making plain the path before us; and will they be 

 pleased to accept from the proprietors and publishers 

 of the "Farmers' Cabinet and American Herd-Book," 

 their best acknowledgments. 



Philad., Aug. 15, 1841. 



We would again remind our friends of the terms of 

 subscription ; by an observance of them, they would 

 enable us to fulfil our terms of engagement with plea- 

 sure to ourselves and advantage to our subscribers. 

 The fifth volume of the Cabinet may now be had, neat- 

 ly bound and lettered, price $1.25, by application at the 

 office — where also may be obtained complete sets from 

 the commpnccment, at five dollars half bound, to- 

 gether with all the standard works on Agriculture. Bo- 

 tany, and their relative branches ; Science and the Arts. 



The quantity of rain which fell during July (7th 



month,) was 3.28 inches. 



Pennsylvania Hospital, 8th mo. 1, 1841. 



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