To SUBSCRIBERS. 



The present number completes the first volume of the Farmers' Cabinet, 

 niul Ihe propi-ietors would avail themselves of tiiis opporluniiy of expressing 

 their ihauks to those gentlemen wiio have l.Tkcn an interest in the success 

 of Ihe work, and who, during the past year, ir.ivc aided them by their con- 

 tributions, as well as by their successful efforts to extend lis circulation, 

 Our acknowledgments are also due to our subscribers — they have kindly 

 borne with us during our infancy — we have been cheered by daily acces- 

 sions to our list, and now our little work not only makes its regular visits 

 to thousands of rural homes, in our own country, circulating in almost 

 every state, but it is also sent to regular subscribers in foreign lands. 



Friends of our enterprise, — on the first of August, we commence a new 

 year or the second volume of the Cabinet. It remains for you to say whe- 

 ther it shall receive tlie same measure of generous support as the preceding 

 volume. Nine-tenths of our old patrons, from whom we have heard, wish 

 to continue the work. We do not calculate on parting with many of our 

 subscribers. Some of course we shall lose. In a list of nearly ten thousand 

 there must of necessity, be changes. We shall endeavor to give all who 

 continue, as well as new subscribers, the full value of their money. 



Our subscribers know the object for which the Cabinet was established. 

 The work is intended to be one of utility to the farming interests — and if 

 it is calculated to promote the interest, to elevate the dignity, to enlarge 

 the views, to introduce new systems of cultivation, or improvements in the 

 old methods of the farmer, tnay we not, with confidence, ask the influence 

 of all in extending its circulation? If it be useful, the niore extensively it is 

 circulated, the better for the community. But how shall it be done? We 

 answer, let every friend of an enlightened agriculture — every advocate for 

 an agricultural journal, use his influence in obtaining additional subscribers 

 for the coming year, among his acquaintance. Almost any individual can 

 easily procure six subscribers in his immediate neighborhood. Now let all 

 such, if they think the Cabinet should be sustained, procure us six sub- 

 scribers, and, on sending a five dollar note, free of postage, we will supply 

 the subscribers thus obtained for one year, and send him also a copy for his 

 trouble. In this way our friends may render us essential service in the 

 prosecution of our labors. 



BACK NUMBERS. 

 g As many of our subscribers commenced taking the Cabinet at the com- 

 _^ mencement of the second half year, or number 1 3, and have expressed a wish 

 Ca to have the preceding numbers, in order that the work might be bound com- 



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