Richmond Enquirer

THE FARMERS' REGISTER.

It gives us pleasure to see the favorable terms in which Mr. Ruffin’s Register has been welcomed by the newspapers. We give a few specimens, this morning:

"The first number of the Farmers' Register, a monthly Magazine of useful agricultural information, has made its appearance from the press of Mr. Thomas W. White, the Publisher, in Richmond. It is handsomely printed in a large octavo form, and contains 64 pages of close matter, in double column, price five dollars per annum. Such a publication was much wanted in Virginia, whose great agricultural interest has suffered more from a limited diffusion and interchange of knowledge upon all subjects connected with it, than from any other cause: we hope, therefore, that so valuable an aid to the improvement of the agriculture of Virginia will be liberally patronized throughout the State. We cannot ourselves, better second our wishes in this respect at present, than by subjoining the following introductory notice of the work, and of its highly intelligent editor, (Mr. Ruffin,) from the Richmond Enquirer, and recommending it to the special notice of our readers.—Norfolk Herald.

"We have received, from the press of Mr. Thomas W. White of Richmond, the first number of Mr. Ruffin’s Farmers' Register, a work which we had long desired to see commenced, and the appearance of which we hail with great satisfaction. Mr. Ruffin has already distinguished himself as a practical agriculturist, and the announcement of this work, designed for the use of the Virginia Farmers and devoted to their interests, gave us hopes of its future usefulness and importance. We are extremely pleased with this first number. It contains well written articles on several Agricultural subjects, as well as other matters which intimately concern the cultivators of the soil; such as Roads and Canals, Domestic Economy, &c., &c. It contains 64 pages octavo, and is to be issued monthly at five dollars per annum. The typographical execution is extremely neat and creditable to the printer. We recommend it to our Virginia readers as likely, if properly encouraged, to be of great service to the State."—Alexandria Phænix.

"We have been favored with the first number of a work published by Edmund Ruffin, of Garysville, Virginia, and issued from the press of Thomas W. White, of Richmond Va, entitled the "Farmers' Register:" which is handsomely printed in an octavo pamphlet form of 64 pages, to be issued monthly at 5 per annum.

"From the hasty view which we have taken of this specimen number, we have little doubt it will become, with its contemporary the American Farmer, and a New England work of the same kind, a very useful aid to the agriculturists of every part of our country, and especially to those of the Southern States, where, it must be allowed, improvements in farming are greatly needed.

"That our readers may see something of the advantages which they would derive from becoming subscribers to the Farmers' Register, we copy from it into the Intelligencer of to-day, a well-written article giving an account of a lately discovered source of Marl, in Virginia, which promises to be of great value to the Farmers of that part of the country.

"We repeat our approbation of the neatness and correctness of the typography of this work. Mr. Ruffin appears to have been fortunate in his selection of a printer."—National Intelligencer.

"The Farmers' Register—A monthly publication by Thomas W. White, Richmond, Virginia. The first number of this periodical made its appearance this month. Each number will consist of 64 pages—the price is $5 per annum. The press has spoken well of this publication.—The Richmond Enquirer, in a notice of this new undertaking, which we have published, speaks in high terms of Edmund Ruffin, Esq. the Editor of the work. He is a practical farmer, of much experience, and a writer of distinction."—W. Globe.

"We have received the first number of the Farmers' Register, a monthly publication, issued at Richmond, Virginia, from the press of the respectable proprietor, Mr. Thomas W. White. It is devoted to improvement of the practice and support of the interests of agriculture. The contents of this first number are ample, and appear to be well chosen. Sure we are that the Virginia farmer will be much better employed in reading them than disquisitions on State rights, and hyperbolical panegyrics on State oracles."—Nat. Gazette.

[With due respect to Mr. Walsh, we can take care, both of the Farmers' Register, and of State Rights. Mr. W. seems almost disposed to smother the last, if he could. As to "hyperbolical panegyrics" on State or any other oracles, we have seen as much hyperbole lately from the North, as we have ever seen ascribed to the South.]

But we cannot do justice to our own feelings of respect, for the liberality which dictates the following article. It is from the last No. of the Scottsville "Virginia Farmer," edited by T. McRobert, Esq., who, nobly putting all sense of rivalry and jealousy under his feet, thus speaks of the new periodical:

"Farmers' Register.—We have just received this excellent publication. We had been long anxiously expecting it, and we must confess ourselves gratified at the very flattering commencement which its intelligent editor, Mr. Ruffin, has made. Perhaps Virginia could not find one better qualified to conduct a paper of this sort than Mr. Ruffin. But his character, as a discriminating investigator of all subjects relating to agriculture, requires no comment from us. His valuable and scientific work on calcareous manures, has long been before the public, and is a sufficient test of his ability.

"The first number of the "Farmers' Register" contains much valuable matter, of which, however, we need not here speak.

"We are fully aware of the fact, that our humble and unpretending production, the "Virginia Farmer," stands against "fearful odds." We know that it must droop like the harebell before the sun, when compared with this excellent publication. But we are candid when we say, that if there is not sufficient patronage with the public for both of us, we are willing to succumb in so noble a combat. We will willingly give way, (if so we must,) to a publication calculated to do so much good. We scorn the little petty jealousies with which some might be actuated under similar circumstances.

"Whatever may be the fate of the Virginia Farmer, we will vouch for one fact, our zeal in the cause and our exertions to make it useful, have been untiring.

"By active exertions we have been able to call to our humble columns, some of the best agricultural writers in Virginia. The article which the lamented Mr. Maule furnished us on agricultural education, was excellent. "The fireside reflections of a Buckingham farmer," and various excellent communications from Buckingham and Fluvanna, which we could mention, have been read with interest, and we hope with profit. And the essay in our present number, we know will commend itself to every reader"—(Col. Good's Prize Essay on Agriculture, which we shall lay before the readers of the Enquirer.)

"Every man is entitled to his due, and we may at least lay claim to the credit of sending forth the Pioneer in the cause of decaying agriculture in Virginia, and if it falls in the onset, be its motto this:

"Sparta has nobler sons than hu."