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JVolices to Subscribers, ^-c. 



Vol. V. 



Notice to Subscribers. 



We gave in our last number— the first of Vol. 5— an 

 engraving of " Tlie Si;al of the PiiiladelpUia Socioty for 

 promoting Agriculture, instituted and adopted in the 

 year 1783," conceiving that nothing could be more 

 appropriate as a frontispiece to the " Farmers' Cabinet 

 and American Herd Book," than the seal of a Society 

 which has honoured the work, by constituting it their 

 organ of communication with the agricultural public 

 throughout the Union ; thus setting its mark of appro- 

 bation on our labours, and admitting us fellow-workers 

 W'ith them in that cause of improvement, whicli it has 

 been their constant aim to foster and protect for more 

 than half a century— it shall be our endeavour to ren- 

 der ourselves worthy this distinction. 



Notice to Correspondents. 



We would again point the attention of our friends to 

 those exxellent papers by our valued correspondent 

 " Observer," at pages 73 and 346 in the 3d vol. of the 

 Cabinet, on " Lightning-Rods"— a subject whii.!i has 

 lately agitated so much the agricultural community— 

 they would seem to embrace all that can be said upon it. 



" A Correspondent" wishes to ask those who have 

 suffered by lightning, whether they can lay their hands 

 on their hearts and declare, that their conducting-rods 

 were exactly in the state in which they could have 

 wished them to be, at the time of the stroke ? He in- 

 forms us that, after the storm, he went over and exa- 

 mined his neighbour's conductor, and found it without 

 top or fioJiom/— literally dangling on the ground, with 

 the top rusted off! And he thinks it just possible, that 

 this was not the only one to be found in that condition, 

 in the country, at the time of the late storms. 



" A Reader" requests us again to turn the attention 

 of our friends to Agricola's paper, on the advantages 

 of fall-ploughing for the destruction of the cut-vvorin, 

 p. 386, vol. 3, of the Cabinet, 



"P." will find his suggestion carried out. 



Notice. 



PHILADELPHIA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The practical trial of ploughs, at the Agricultural 

 E-xliibition, will take place near the exhibition grounds 

 on Friday morning, the 9th of October, 1840, at 9 

 o'clock. 



I To Postmasters. 



j To enable us to avail ourselves of the liberality of 

 the Postnjastcr-Generars permission, to write and frank 

 letters containing subscriptions for periodicals, it 13 

 necessary that the Postmasters write their names at 

 full length on the outside of such letters. Will they be 

 pleased to bear this in mind : ^ve have suffered, and are 

 still suffering much loss from a non-observance of the 

 letter of this law, many of our friends conceiving it is 

 only necessary to sign their initials on the outside, pro- 

 vided their names at length appear within: this is not 

 sufficient— the name written at full length on the out- 

 side of the letter— so says the law. 



Notice. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will hold its 

 twelfth exhibition, in the Masonic Hall, in Chesnut 

 Street, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 16th, 

 17th, and 18th of September. 



Premiums for the fruits, &c., to be competed for on 

 that occasion, will be awarded at 9 o'clock, A. M. on 

 the second day of the exhibition. 



Sale of Durham Cattle and Berkshire 

 Hogs. 



Benjamin Brentnall, of English neighbourhood, Ber- 

 gen county, N. J., 5 miles from New- York, being about 

 to leave this country for England, advertises his whole 

 stock, together with his farm, for sale on the premises, 

 on the 'JOth of the present month— an unreserved sale. 

 Amongst the pure-blooded Berkshire?, are the noted 

 sow and boar British Queen and Prince jSlbert, the win- 

 ners of the highest prizes awarded at the exhibition 

 of the American Institute, in 1839— but what is still 

 more rare, a boar pig, red and white, by name 

 " Royal Blood ;" and a young sow, descended from the 

 same royal pair !— These will, no doubt, prove sporting- 

 lots ! 



The quantity of rain which fell during the 



8th month, (August,) was 5.551 inches. 



John Conrad. 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, 9th mo. 1, 1840. 



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