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To our Patro7is. 



Vol. in. 



not the object of the proprietors to force it on 

 anv one. The same rule was adopted at the 

 termination of the second volume ; and, after 

 giving the subject due consideration, we think 

 it best for all concerned to adhere to it. But 

 we have a plan which will obviate the diffi- 

 culty in regard to those who think well enough 

 of our sheet to continue their patronage from 

 year to year. It is simply a list of perma- 

 nent subscribers to the Farmers' Cabinet, 

 which we are happy to say has already re- 

 ceived the sanction of many hundreds of our 

 patrons. We wish to bring it to the atten- 

 tion of all our readers, and we therefore 

 most respectfully request those who are 

 about to renew their subscriptions, to state 

 whether the Cabinet shall be sent to Ihem un- 

 til otherwise ordered or not. By this means 

 all parties may be satisfied. Many have been 

 exceedingly disappointed, and in some in- 

 stances we think that we have been censured 

 unnecessarily because we had discontinued 

 the Cabinet to those to whom it would have 

 aiforded us the greatest pleasure to have for- 

 warded it regularly, if we had been apprized 

 of their wishes. 



We have many communications from gen- 

 tlemen residing in various sections of the 

 country, requesting us to forward the Cabinet, 

 and that by the first private opportunity they 

 would remit the amount, which they cannot 

 do by mail. Whenever a letter of this char- 

 acter has reached us, postage paid, we have 

 complied with the request of the writer.* In 

 order to obviate the difficulty we recommend 

 to all, especially those residing at a distance, 

 and whose communication is not direct with 

 Philadelphia, the example of some of our ear- 

 liest patrons, viz.; a remittance of/re dollars, 



*A large proportion of those who thus ordered the 

 Cabinet, have paid the amount of their subscriptions. 

 Many of them not finding it convenient to remit as 

 they had anticipated, have been at considerable pains 

 to procure a one dollar hill, and when they had suc- 

 ceeded have remitted it to us by mail, paying the post- 

 ace which, in many instances, amounted to from 37J 

 to fifty cents, which with the postage previously paid, 

 is three-fourths the yearly price of the Cabinet. A 

 large majorily of the subscribers thus situated, have 

 nevertheless ordered the Cabinet continued : In order 

 to meet with this difficulty the Proprietors hereby an- 

 iiounce that any person remitting PtvE dollars, shall 

 be entitled 10 the Farmers' Cabinet for skven years, 

 commencing with the first or any subsequent volume. 

 The moM(?y, if sent by mail may be forwarded at the 

 BiBK of the publishers. 



which will entitle the subscriber to the first 

 seven volumes of the Cabinet, or seven years 

 in advance from the date of the remittance, 

 as may be desired. New subscribers who 

 wish tiie work sent them from the commence- 

 ment can have the first three volumes for- 

 warded by mail in paper covers, subject to 

 newspaper postage. 



OCT" All post masters are hereby duly au- 

 thorized, and also most respectfully requested 

 to act as agents for the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 They will be allowed the usual commission. 



Any gentleman may constitute himself a 

 special agent by forwarding us five dollars, 

 for which seven copies of the Cabinet will be 

 supplied for one year ; or, fifteen copies for 

 ten dollars. 



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Those of our subscribers whose names are 

 not on our permanent list, whose term of 

 subscription expires with the next nnmber, 

 and who desire to have the Cabinet continued, 

 are respectfully requested to give us imme- 

 diate information, either personally, by let- 

 ter, or by some friend visiting the city. 



It is not to be expected that in a business 

 so extensive and complex as that of the Cab- 

 inet, that no mistakes will occur, — It is our 

 interest as well as our desire that all our pa- 

 trons should be regularly supplied. But when 

 subscribers do not receive the Cabinet, it does 

 not follow that the publishers are in fault.— 

 They are not one time in ten. We have^sat- 

 isfied ourselves that one great source of com- 

 plaint is to be traced to the remissness of some 

 of the post masters ; and not unfrequently to 

 the misapprehension of subscribers as to the 

 conditions on which the work is published. — 

 Some, we are sorry to say, are still under the 

 impression that they are entitled to twenty- 

 four numbers yearly, and therefore say they 

 do not receive half their numbers — the com- 

 plainants are always satisfied when they take 

 a proper view of the subject, but this does not 

 correct the impression on the minds of others. 

 Now we wish it distinctly understood that, in 

 all cases, twelve nvmbers of the farmers' 



CABINET ARE EQUIVALENT TO A YEAR's SVB- 



scBiPTioN. We wish to say a word on ano- 



