Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-29

be entitled 10 the Magazine Tor one year.
New York, August, 1874.
SOUTHWESTERN FARMER: N.
- G. NoRTH, NJ. w. Philips, Editors.
Not despailing of ultimate success in
my cherished object--the permanent es-
adjustment of an AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL
for this section of the Union--l now pro-
pose to this community, which is emphat-
ically an agricultural one, a plan for ex.
tending the circulation, improving the
styly, and increasing the efficiency, of
"The Southwestern Farmer
This journal has now existed nearly
three years--merely existed; for it has
not nourished. Like some ill.tended but
hardy plant, which barely keeps alive du.
ring ong-continued drought, it has nei-
Their delighted the multitude with its vigo-
rous growth, nor choered the owner with
its profitable fruits. A few indulgent
friends, scattered sparsely over this and
the adjoining states, have charitably borne
with its many imperlections. For the
first two years, il was published in book
form, quarto size; but, on entering upon
the present volume, for many reasons
which seemed imperative to me at the
time, it assumed the common newspaper
or folio form.
It is the wish Of most Of its readers, (as
| am now well satisfed,) and it is my own
desire and purpose, that it again revert to
the book form. Accordingly, | propose,
with the cooperation Of the public, to
place the "Farmer" at the beginning of
the fourth volume, in such a form that the
body of the work will be Invested of adj
vertisement, and in pages of such con
venient size as TO be easily handled, filed
and bound.
THE PROPOSED FORM.
The present form of the Farmer is folio
ii. C., it consists of four pages, each page
measuring l9A X 1874 inches. The form
of the first and second volumes was quarto
ii O., of eight pages, each ii KS. The
form Of the fourth volume, as now propose
it, shall be octdro-i. e., il will consist of
sixteen pages, each measuring 9S5a
inches. contemplate procuring, for the
purpose of advertisements, set of very
small types, (nonpariel,) sufficiently CON
densed to admit all the advertisements on
the two outer leaves, j. @, on the four out
err pages---which outer sheet can be cut off
in binding or filing, thus leaving the read
ing matter of II pages 10 itself. In this
way subscribers will get in one month As
pages, exclusive OF advertisements, or in
the year more than 600.
SCALE OF TERMS.
To induce some effort among the friends
of agricultural improvement, in obtaining
subscribers, Iannaunce the following scale
of terms;
Single subscribers, as before, SO per
annum or two subscribers for IS.
Clubs or individuals paying any one Of
the following sums, shall receive the an
nexed number of copies for one year, pro-
vided the copies all go to one address.
$40 entitle to S copies;
$50 entiile to 16 copies:
$50 entille 10 2S copies:
500 enti,e to go copies:
PostmGsters, or local agents, obtaining
subscribers and renting as above, shall
be entitled to all the advantages offered.
Please TO remit through the Postmas-
tiers, as they are authorized by law 10 re-
init to publishers, free of postage.
PRIZES FOR ESSAYS.
hereby offer as premiums, sir Silrer
cups, with appropriate inscriptions--one
Of the six TO be awarded, respectively, to
the authors of the best essays on the fol-
lowing subjects respectively, each author
to be resident of Mississippi, viz:
|. The Cotton Plantation. Its manage
ment, with reference 10 crops of inferior
importance, and the proper proportions of
land and labor devoted to each-including
field paslurage--rotarion of crops and pas.
ture--artifici,l grasses.
2 What crop shall supplant cotton on
plantations Of inferior qualities, when cot
ton shall become TOO low TO be cultivated
on such plantations--what new crops to
be introduced, # any.
3. Sheep as adapted to Mississippi.
4. The Garden and the Orchard-com.
parlson Of the soil and climate Of Missis.
slppl with those Of more northern States,
in reference to the production Of vegeia-
bles and garden trui;s-togcihcr with the