Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-09-20
A SUDDEN CHANGE.

The readers, both of the ST. JoHNsBURY
TINES and the VERMONT FARMER, will most
of them be surprised, no doubt, at receiving
their paper in its present form without any
previous notification that such a change was
in contemplation. The subscribers Of the
FARMER, it is true, have known of our inten-
ton to enlarge and improve it at the close Of
the current volume. With this aim in view
we have of course been compelled to look out
in time in order to provide the mechanical
appurtenances in the way of larger press
and new type. We have also had it under
consideration, in consequence Of many offers
and suggestions from patrons and friends, to
remove its Office of publication to some larger
and more central place. Burlington, Mont
pelier and Rutland, among others, have been
suggested and more or less definite proposals
made to us in regard to each place, St.
Johnsbury, also, in which we have the best
reasons to believe that we possess many
warm friends, entered the lists, and offered
us strong encouragement to make this thriv-
ing aud energetic town our headquarters.
While We were considering the question of
removal, aud before we had made up our
minds in regard to it, an opportunity offered
itself by which we were able to purchase on
favorable terms all the material we required,
together with the subscription list and accounts
of the TIMES. So short period was allowed
in which to decide the matter, that neither
paper was able to announce it in its last
weeks edition. Consequently the first in
formation that most of their subscribers will
receive will be the receipt Of the present is
sue of the FARMER.
1t may well be supposed that such hur.
red removal as has been required, in order
that there should be no break in the contin-
uity of our weekly visits, would prevent this
from being, in many respects, fair speci-
men of what we propose tc make the YER
MONT FARMER in its enlarged form. 1t will
be several weeks yet before we shall be able
to so systematic and arrange our operations
as to make manifest al. our plans for max
ing the paper what we design that it shall
be, and what our friends desire to see it,-a
live and earnest representative OF the agri-
cultural interests of Vernon, as well as a
news and family Journal Of the first class,
When we add that not only have the pro-
posed changes been hurried, but that the
transfer has taken place at the very busiest
time for an agricultural paper, the fair sea-
sou, we feel that no further apologies will
be expected by our old subscribers and
friends. They get the enlarged paper some
ten weeks earlier than they expected, at the
old price. In return We trust that they will
continue to show that generous interest in
our welfare, and in the increase of our sub
scription list, by which so many of them have
cheered us in our arluous and costly enter
prise oil establishing first class agricultural
paper among the green hills and ierdIo val.
legs of our beloved commonwealth. 1t will
re seen by the announcement at the head Of
his column that we offer very favorable terms
10 clubs. Now is the time to begin to talk
the matter up, exhibit specimens Of the pa.
per, give an account of its character and
record for the past two years, and gather in
The names before your neighbors have been
induced to subscribe for other journals OIL
higher price and more distant location, which
whatever their excellence, will not represent
as we aim to do, in all their fullness, the in.
terests and feelings of the farmers of YER
mont. With "long pull, and strong
pull, and pull all together" our friends may
aid in placing us at once in position which
will allow us to make the FARMER in the
ulest sense what many have already styled
tia paper that Vermont farmers are Justly
lroud Of"
To the patrons Of the TINES We present
he FARMER, with the hope that they will find
IN it a substitute with which they will feel nc
disposition to dispense. With wider aim
larger field, and doubled circulation, ex'
tending to all parts Of the state, we believe
we shall make for them paper that, while
it represents, and must represent, the loca
interests of 81. Johnsbury, because st. Johns
bury is'one of the four leading business cen
tiers OF the state, will Also if rightly con-
Quoted, have a position and influence in the
community that no strictly local paper could
,ope to obtain. That that influence will be
Used to advance the interests Of all our pat
ons we need not promise, since it is so man
testify our interest to do SO.
To the business public and to advertisers
we commend the consideration Of the fact
hat the FARMER combines with the sub.
,cription list Of the TINES its OVID by nc
means small circulation in Caledonia County
together with list in Orleans, Franklin,
Washington, Orange, Lamoille and Chittou.
len, as well as in the southern counties of the
state, such az no local paper can expect to