FARMERS' REGISTER— TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



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TERMS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER, VOL. II. 



The Farmers' Register is published in monthly num- 

 bers, each containing 64 pages, large octavo, at $5 a 

 year, payable in advance. The mechanical execution 

 of the work will be in the best style oi book printing. 



There are no agents authorized by the editor to obtain 

 subscribers, or to receive payments for subscriptions. 

 But any person may constitute himself an agent for 

 others, and shall receive an extra copy of the current 

 volume, by sending the names of 4 subscribers, and 

 $20, at one time: or any five new subscribers may, in 

 like manner, obtain their first year's copies for $2d, 

 or at $-1 each. But it is expressly declared, that no 

 such compensation will be allowed hereafter, unless 

 when all the names are sent at once, and with the pay- 

 ment in advance. 



The editor assumes the risk of the mail, for all pay- 

 ments made to him on account of tlie Farmers' Register, 

 whether the person sending such payment has received 

 any part of the publication previotislj', oris transmitting 

 payment in advance, as a new subscriber. The evi- 

 dence required for such transmission of money to the 

 editor, will be either the certificate of the postmaster, 

 or of some other person, of the letter containing the 

 sum, having been placed in the hands of some post- 

 master, or his assistant. 



The notes of any specie paying bank chartered by 

 the state in which the subscriber resides, will be receiv- 

 ed in payment for subscriptions: but an additional favor 

 will be conferred, by sending notes either of the Bank 

 of Virginia, Farmer's Bank of Virginia, or the Bank 

 of the United States. 



When a copy of the Farmers' Register fails to reach 

 any subscriber's post office, a duplicate copy will be 

 sent, provided the following conditions are compUed 

 with, viz : First, that the postmaster states that the 

 missing number, or package had failed to reach his 

 office — and. Secondly, that the application for a dupli- 

 cate comes from a person who has complied with the 

 terms of subscription. The editor incurs much ex- 

 pense, and responsibility, to secure complete sets to all 

 subscribers: and it cannot be thought that he requires 

 any thing unreasonable, in the simple and easy condi- 

 tions attached to his fulfilling such unusual obliga- 

 tions. This guarantee of the receipt of every number, 

 will compel, (even if other considerations did not,) the 

 giving every proper care to mailing and directing the 

 copies. 



No subscription will be permitted for less time 

 than a year — nor hereafter, to commence otherwise, 

 than at the beginning of a volume. 



If a subscription is not directed to be discontinued, 

 before the first number of the next year has been pub- 

 lished, it will be taken as a continuance of the sub- 

 scription for the ensuing year: and no subscription will 

 be discontinued while any thing remains due thereon, 

 except at the option of the editor. 



The plan of publication remains as announced in the 

 proposals for the work, (No. 1, Vol. I:) the like subjects 

 only will continue to be discussed, and the " improve- 

 ment of the practice, and support of the interests of 

 agriculture," will still be exclusively tlie objects of the 

 publication. The editor will reap no profit at the 

 expense of his readers, by admitting advertisements into 

 his pages; nor will he lighten his labor and expenses. 



by tlie insertion of any matter unsuitable to the work, 

 and not considered useful or agreeable to his subscri- 

 bers. 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



The distance of the place of publication of the 

 Fai-mers' Register from the residence of its editor, has 

 proved a source of much inconvenience to both the pi.b- 

 lisher and editor. It became evident, that to do justice 

 to his w-ork, to his subscribers, and to his own interest, 

 there was no choice for the editor but to change his 

 residence to Richmond, or to bring his printing to his 

 home in the countiy: and the latter alternative has been 

 adopted, as involving tlie smaller pecuniary sacrifice. 

 The novel establishment of a good and complete printing 

 ofiice in a country place, may possibly bring upon the 

 proprietor new difficulties — but the risk will be all his 

 own, while most of the benefits of the change will 

 accrue to his subscribers. By incurring the heavy 

 expense necessary to make this establishment, he has 

 given a new guarantee to the public, of his devotion to 

 the v>'ork he has undertaken, and of his confidence in 

 its stability. No expense or care has been spared to 

 insure that the Farmers' Register shall be as well 

 printed at the Shellbanks press, as heretofore in Rich- 

 mond: and the high praise which has been so generally 

 and so deservedly av.arded to Mr. White, the former 

 publisher, for the excellent mechanical execution of 

 the work in general heretofore, is sufficient evidence 

 of the character the Farmers' Register has in this res- 

 pect acquired, and which it must preserve, or suffer 

 immediately and greatly, in the pubhc estimation. By 

 this mode of comparison tlie future publication will be 

 tested — and by this standard the present publisher is 

 willing that his work shall be judged. In other re- 

 spects, of more importance than tlie mere beauty of 

 form and appearance, some improvement in the publi- 

 cation may be expected, from the immediate super- 

 vision of the editor. The last sheet of this number, 

 beginning with page 753, is the first issued from the 

 new press. 



As the Shellbanks post office is on the main mail 

 coach road from Norfolk to Petersburg, every facility 

 is afforded for the distribution of the Farmers' Register, 

 that could be found in any other place of publication. 

 No disadvantage will be suffered from the change, by 

 any subscriber. Those only who have heretofore re- 

 ceived their copies at the publication office in Rich- 

 mond might sustain some inconvenience, if not guarded 

 against by tlie editor. But their situation will be kept 

 unaltered, by their copies being sent, free of expense, 

 to a place of delivery in Richmond. 



The publication of the Farmers' Register is no longer 

 an experiment of doubtful result, for which its^best 

 friends entertained much more of fear, than of hope. 

 Contraiy to almost universal expectation, the success 

 of the work has been such as to leave no ground for 

 fear or doubt: and the prospects of extended circulation 

 and increased usefulness, are ever}-' day becoming 

 more sure. This success, this usefulness, and the 

 beneficial influence already attributed to tlie Farmers' 

 Register, are altogetlier owing to the many and able con- 

 tributors to its pages. While such aid continues to be 

 afforded, there will be no danger of diminished value, 

 or interest, in the publication; witliout such aid, the 



