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JS/otices. 



Vol. VI. 



Notices. 



While the publishers of the Farmers' Cabinet ac- 

 knowledge the punctuality of many of iheir subscribers 

 in paying for it, as the terms prescribe, in advance, 

 they feel obliged to remind others, that although more 

 than half the numbers of the Olh volume are issued, it 

 still remains vinpaid for. Not a few are in arrears also 

 for the 5th volume. The amount to individuals is 

 small .—the paper is published at a heavy e.xpense. A 

 large subscription list, and prompt payments, are there- 

 fore essential to sustain it. Those connected with the 

 publication flatter themselves that they " have done 

 the slate some service," in throwing before the public 

 a large amount of valuable agricultural information : 

 they think their paper may fairly put in a claim to a 

 full share of the consideration attached to many others 

 of similar character, which are throwing, broad-cast 

 over our land, the benefits resulting from the intelli- 

 gence and the experience of our whole farming popula- 

 tion. They believe it important to the conununity, 

 that their labours and their wishes may not be frustra- 

 ted, by neglect on the part of any of their subscribers. 

 Kemittances for subscriptions may at any time be 

 made, by mail, through the kindness of post-masters, 

 who are at liberty to frank them. Where subscribers 

 wish to discontinue at the close of a volume, it is par- 

 ticularly desirable that early information be communi- 

 cated to this office. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Dear Sir, — According to the suegestions of your cor- 

 respondent W., expressed in the Cabinet for November 

 last, I have had constructed at our manufactory, a 

 Centre-Draught Sod C Plough, with longer and straight- 

 er handles, and a longer beam ; the point of the share 

 also projecting before the coulter, &c. It has arrived 

 at our Implement and Seed Store, No. 17f) .Market St., 

 and is accompanied by a subsoil-plough suited to the 

 draught of a pair of horses ; both having been made ex 

 pressly for the trial to be given under the auspices of 

 the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, and th;;y are 

 here awaiting their arrangements. 



We have also received a new and very superior as- 

 sortment of field seeds, amongst the rest, the new and 

 splendid variety of purple-top nita-baga, of which 

 mention is made in the Cabinet for December, as hav- 

 ing been grown of very large size by Dr. George Uhler, 

 and exhibited at your office ; which w(- strongly re- 

 commend to the notice of our agricultural and horti- 

 cultural friends. D. O. Prouty. 



Mr. Isaac Newton, of Delaware county, has depo- 

 sited at our office, a cut of remarkably fine fat mutton, 

 of the Bakewell and SouthDnwn cross, which shows 

 very distinctly the value of an union of these justly 

 celebrated breeds of sheep, whether it he on account of 

 the wool or the meat, the former being augmented to 

 the amount of at least one-half the weight, without a 

 correspondent deterioration of quality, it still yielding 

 a staple fit for clothing, the meat also being of superior 

 quality and in much larger quantity. 



Jt;sT published, price §1, and may be had of Kimber 

 and Sharpless, proprietors of the p'.irniers' Cabinet, 

 " Lectures on the application ofCliemistry and Geology 

 to Agriculture, by J. F. W. Johnson, Professor of Che- 

 mistry and Geology in the University of Durham." 

 These lectures were delivered before a society of prac- 

 tical agriculturists, and are addressed, not to the phi- 

 losopher, but to the tiller of the soil; they are therefore 

 compiled in the most familiar manner, without unne- 

 cessary technical terms, and none are used unless ex- 

 [)lained. The author says, "That akt on which a 

 thousand millions of men are dependent for their very 

 sustenance— in the prosecution of which nine-tenths of 

 the fi,\ed capital of all civilized nations is embarked, 

 and 200 millions of men expend their daily toil— that 

 ART must confessedly be the most important of all, the 

 parent and precursor of all other arts." The work, of 

 wliich the present publication forms (he first part only, 

 is destined to become extremely popular, and is exactly 

 suited to the present enlightened state of agricultural 

 society; it will form the te.\t-book of the Farmer's Li- 

 brary. 



In a few days will be published by Thomas, Cowper- 

 thwait and Co., Phila., price 50 cents, "The Farmers' 

 Land Measurer or Pocket Companion, showing atone 

 view the content of any piece of land from dimensions 

 taken in yards ; to which is added a set of useful tables 

 relating to the business of agriculture, husbandry and 

 rural affairs:" prepared for the press by James Pedder, 

 Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Con(£n«s.— Introduction to the Measurement of Land, 

 First table for measuring land, from 1 to 



500 yards. 

 Second table showing the width required 



for an acre. 

 Tables for manuring land. 

 Table of planting distances. 

 Table for ploughing. 

 Overseer's account of time. 

 Measurement of Corn in tl>e erib— right 



angle. 

 Span level for draining. 

 The imperial bu.ffjel table. 

 Measurement of live stock. 



The Editor, desirous of furnishing the subscribers and 

 friends of the Cabinet, and agriculturists generally, 

 with a concise and easy mode of measuring their own 

 land, and computing its contents, by n^ans of many 

 hundred ready-worked tables, offers this little manual 

 with the most perfect confidence, it having been his 

 constant " companion" during many years of practical 

 experience. It is printed, and bound in leatlier, in a 

 shape fitted for the side-pocket of the farmer, who will 

 soon find that he never ought to be without it. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the 



2(1 month (February), 1842, was 4^ inches. 



Pennsylvania Hospital, 3d mo. 1, 1842. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



IS PUBLISHED BY 



KIMBER & SHARPLESS, No. 50 NORTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 



It is edited by James Pedder, and is issued on the i 

 fifteenth of every month, in numbers of ;i2 octavo 

 pages each. The subjects will be illustrated by engrav- 

 ings, whenever they can be apprnjiriately introduced. 



Terms — One dollar per annum, or five dollars for 

 seven copies— pnr/nft/e in advance. 



Afl subscriptions must commence with the herrrnving 

 of a volume. Any of the back volumes may be had 

 at one dollar each, in Duml)i>rs, or one doll.ir and 

 twenty-five cents halflmunrl and li'ttered. 



For si.x dollars paid in advance, a complete set of 

 the work will be furnished ; including the first five 

 vohimes ha/f bound, and the sixth volume in numbers. 



Copies returned to the office of publication will be 

 neatly half bound and lettered at twenty-five cents per 

 vohime. 



By tlie decision of the Post Master General, the 

 " Cabinet," is subject only to newspaper postage ; that 

 is, one cent on eacli number within the state, or 

 within one hundred miles of the place of publication 

 out of the st!it(', — and one cent and a half to any 

 other part of the tTnited Slates— and Post Masters are 

 at liberty to receive subscriptions, and forward thcin 

 to the Publishers under their frank— thus atiiirding an 

 opportunity to all who wish it, to order the work, and 

 pay for it without expi.-nse of |>ostage. 



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