INDIANA FARMEE.
Vol. VII.]       INDIANAPOLIS, IKD., AUGUST, 1858.
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PUBLISHERS' APPEAL.
Friends and fellow citizens—co-workers in the cause of educated labor in Indiana—we come before you in this our
fifth number, not as beggars for personal
favors, but earnestly asking of you a
more liberal support in this our common
enterprise. For your approbation of our
course, and your good opinion of the
Indiana Farmer, so fully expressed, we
most heartly thank you. For that material aid which many of you have afforded us, by subscribing for the Farmer, and
getting up clubs for us, we also thank
you. In our efforts to advance the common good in this our favorite enterprise,
this material aid, and these encourage-
ing expressions of approbation, are more
agreeable to us than they would be if our
enterprise was limited by the sphere of
our individual interests. The ignorant
man, who is unconscious of the relationship which' he sustains in society, may
respond to a sentiment of pure selfishness. But publishers who write to teach,
and publish to disseminate what others
have proved to be truth, in common with
farmers and mechanics, who labor to
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prove what is the best way to apply labor
to make it pay best, and to relieve man
from incessant toil, that he may have
time for intellectual and moral improvement, respond to a higher and holier
sentiment when they learn that whilst
earning their daily bread they have also
contributed to the common good.
When we undertook to publish the
Indiana Farmer, we went to work resolved
to make it equal to the best Agricultural
paper in the Union. We also understood
distinctly that we had to foot the bill of
expense until you were fully satisfied of
our success. At this time the expressions of your approbation are in advance
of our anticipations. This we attribute
to that well developed state of public
sentiment in favor of agricultural science,
and rural literature, which we fully comprehended when we engaged in this enterprise.
There are now three things in which
the Indiana Farmer is defective, and
these are entirely at your disposal. The
first is a want of attention to those various little things in wliich the practical
man is so much interested. If you will
all consider yourselves agents for the Indiana Farmer, and go to work and solicit
subscribers, so that our editor can stay at
home, he will do this department justice.
The second defect is a want of a thorough system of correspondence. This
defect is fast diminishing, .and will soon
cease. In the mean time we invite all
Indianians, especially the ladies, to write
for our columns. We intend to keep a
ladies' department in our paper, and we
respectfully invite the ladies of Indiana
to fill it with their sentiments in regard to
all industrial, intellectual, and moral enterprises of the day, not forgetting that
good old subject—" Home, sweet home."
The third defect is a want of engrav-