Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-05-30
TO the CultiUators Of the Soil.
THE AMERICAN FARMER.

fTNHE first number of the AMERICAN FAR
Il MER was issued on the Cd of April, 1919.
1t may now be announced as an established
NATIONAL WoRK, adapted to all the varieties
of our climate, since many ofthe most eminent
citizens in all the states, contribute by their
patronage and their pens, to its circulation and
Usefulness. Every subscriber, therefore,
plough what soil or breathe in what latitude
he may, will find in the Farmer, essays detail
ing experiments and conveying information
suited to his particular condition and pursuits.
Tomake knownall discoveries in the science,
and all improvements in the practice of AGRi-
CULTURE and DOMESTIC ECONOMY
and to develop the means of INTERNAL M
PROPONENTS generally, constitute the chief
objects to which the AMERICAN FARMER
is devoted. 1t takes no concern OF interest in
party politics, nor in the transient occurrences
of the day.
The Farmer is published, weekly, on sheet
the size of large newspaper, and folded so as
to make eight pages-and to admit of being
conveniently bound up and preserved in vo-
Mmes. Each volume will consist of fifty-two
numbers, title page and an index-and nume-
rous ENGRAvIyGs to represent new Implements,
and approved Systems of Husbandry.
Each number gives true and accurate state
ment of the then selling Prices of country pro-
duce, live stock, and all the principal articles
brought for sale in the Baltimore market.
Terms of subscription 81 per annum, to be
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Jars, the actual receipt of every number is guar
anteed.-That is, when numbers fail to come
to hand, duplicates shall be sent until every
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AS the Editor takes the risk and cost of the
fnail--should subscription money miscarry, he
holds himself, nevertheless, bound to furnish
fha To thosa xrhn h,,,1y ~
of subscription too high, it may be remarked,
that on comparison of their actual contents,
one page of the American Farmer, will be
found to contain as much as four pages of the
"MEM0IRs OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
PHILADELPHIA," and the four volumes of that
patriotic and exceedingly valuable work, sell
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Editor of the Farmer could not speak with
proprety, if il did not so happen, that he has
little occasion and less leisure to write for it.
His agency consists, chiefly, in collecting and
arranging the materials. If, however, proof
we're required of its tendency to promote i'm
provements in every branch of rural economy
by those who may never have seen the work,
itwould be sufficient to make reference to the
first Volume, where it will be seen that it con-
fains essays on every department of Husband
ry, from the pens and under the proper
names of those eminent citizens in the differ
ent states, who most distinguished in the
annals of agriculture and other sciences.
All gentlemen who feel an interest in the
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GT in all cases the money must be remitted be-
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returned in any case, where the subscriber, on
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RENTED to the Editor.
A few of the first volume, either in sheets
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nT AL communications to be addressed to
JOHN s. SKINNER,
baltimore.
.absi1 8, 1920.