J^elu €nglanb Jfamer. 



BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1864. 



Entered acccordlng to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, 

 by >{OUKSE, Katon & Tolman, in the Clerk's office of the 

 District Court of the United States, lor the District of JIiis- 

 sachusetts. 



SUSPENSION OF THE FAKMEB. 



We announce, reluctantly, a temporary suspen- 

 sion of the New England Fakmkr. It is due 

 to our subscribers that some exi)lanation of this 

 step should be given. 



At the time when the subscription price of the 

 present year was fixed, and our calculations for 

 the year's business made, our expenses were less 

 than one-half what they have since risen to. Qf 

 course, this is too great a difference to leave any 

 margin of profit — on the contrary, we have, for 

 some time, been compelled to draw upon resour- 

 ces outside of the amount received from our sub- 

 scribers, and we do not find ourselves able to con- 

 tinue this course. Our list being all prepaid, we 

 should be unable to derive any relief from an in- 

 creased subscription price in time to save us fron; 

 heavier loss than we are able to sustain, and, at 

 the same time, as the efi'ect of a rise to $3, which 

 is as low as the paper can be afforded to return 

 anything like a suitable profit on the outlay, we 

 could but expect a large reduction in our list. 

 This, too, would leave us in a worse position than 

 if we stopped outright. 



We have, therefore, determined to suspend the 

 publication of the Fakmer until the prices of pa- 

 per and labor are somewhere nearer a living stan- 

 dard, and hope that every subscriber will under- 

 stand the necessity of the step. We cannot, of 

 course, fix any definite time when we shall resume 

 the publication of the Farmer, but it will be at 

 the earliest period that we can feel assured of such 

 a permanent reduction in expenses as will prom- 

 ise a living support. We shall then send the paper 

 to all our subscribers, for a period corresponding 

 to the length of time for which they have credit 

 on our books, and shall hope for a renewal of their 

 support. We wish them to understand one thing 

 — there are no club subscribers on our list whose 

 paper has not already cost us more than we re- 

 ceived from them for the whole year. That, how- 

 ever, was our misfortune and not their fault. 



It is with sincere regret that we make this an- 

 nouncement. Nothing but stern necessity has 

 driven us to it. The farmers of N^ew England 

 need the services of the agricultural press. The 

 benefits which they have derived from agricultural 

 newspapers and books during the past thirty 

 years have been of incalculable profit to them, and 

 they should not hesitate, at this crisis, to pay the 

 increased amount necessary to keep them alive. 

 We speak feelingly, when we urge them to sus- 

 tain agricultural papers, and we assure them they 

 will regret it, if they fail to give such publications 

 a liberal support. 



When the prices of material and labor are again 

 at a reasonable figure, we intend to resume the 

 publication of the New England Farmer, re- 

 newed and reinvigorated by a period of rest, and 

 place it once more in the van of those Avho are 

 laboring for the elevation and instruction of the 

 class upon which depend all others. To that end 

 we have copyrighted for our future use, the name 

 and title "New England Farmer," and claim its 

 exclusive use as a title for agricultural publica- 

 tions. 



