The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-10-28
PRosPECTUs
Pennsylvania Farmer,

'A''" COHtuOH Och00t I1lteLhgeTlcer
semi-monthly publication devoted TO Agriculture
Gardening, and the General improvement Of the
PARKB.
Nothlng need be said as to the Importance ofthe
Sc'ence ot agriculture, which being the great busi-
ness OF our country, the sure road to competencv
and the main ofwealth lies at the foundation
oil our national prosperity. The experience of every
year, and especially of the last few years has
shown that agriculture has been entirely too much
neglected for the best good Of our country. The
great desire of the present age for the accumulation
oi wealth. and the prevailing spirit to seek for it in
new and shorter course, than that pursued by our
ancestors had led many from the slow but certain
means of agricultural labor, to the more alluring
employments ofprofessiona life, aud commercial
enterprise, or the still more hazardous fields of
speculation and adventure, ih which felU have
succeeded even beyond their. own expectations.
The result of this unnatural state Of things has been
what might very well have been predicted; q great
scarcity of all the products the SOIL with such an
enormous increase in the price, as to cause their
importations from foreign countries, to the great
lmpoverishng and dscredit ofour own.
This folly and these ills have now become ap-
parent, and many Of those, who, having been luIed
by the examples and success of others or the prospect
held out to their view, from the producing TO the
consuming class, and being disappointed in theirex-
pectations, disposed and are making arran1e-
ments to return to the honest the healthful and the
independent employment of tng the aoil-whe.e
they are sure OF being amply recompensed for their
labor.
Pennsylvania is emphatically an agricultural
state, and has thus suffered less from the late uctua-
tons and changes which have embarrassed our
country, than any other sister states. Her soil is
not surpassed by any in the world, and her German
and other citizens are justly celebrated as being
among the first farmers in the Union II hes there
fore been considered peculiarly proper that in the
heart OF ts garden OF our country, an agricultural
paper should be established to gather up the expel-
ience of intelligent farmers from all quarters, and
send 1t abroad, not only ever our commonwealth,
but to every part of the United States. For the
purpose OF doing this, and supplying what has been
considered deSiderdtum among the periodicals of
our states, the publisher has been induced and en-
couraged by numerous friends of agriculture and
general Improvement, to establish the Pennsylvania
Farmer. He has received assurances which lead
him confidently to expect that its columns will be
enriched with contributions from some of the most
distinguished scientific and practical farmers and
gardeners IN our own, as well of our sister
| states, which with extracts and republicaons of
standard and new works upon the science of agricul7
ture, will render it both interesting and useful to
every farmer who desires to excel in his most lauda-
bic employment, ...,.
| Pennsylvania has established and is now maturing
a system Of general education by common schools
which sintended to carry the blessings of knowledge
to every mans home, and place within the reach Of
every child III the commonwealth, the means of in
struction and improvement. This object is all inn
portant, and our means being ample it is confidently
hoped that the plan will continue to be improved
IL carried out, till the minds Of our citizens shall be
as highly cultivated their fields, and the harvest
of intellect be rich and abundant as that gathered
from the soil. Then shall Pennsylvania be indeed
| the Keystone of cur Union, bearing a polish not
| equaed by any state or kingdom in the world. - p.
The events of the last few months have shown
that increasing interest is felt in this department
and therefore it cannot be doubted but that the
| Common School Intelligencer, will be welcomed as
a co-laborer in important work, and being made
the vehicle of communication between the friends of
education, aid in the proper arranging and develop
| ing of the system, and be the means of doing much
| good. .,. .., 10
To the advancement of these objects, and to the
dissemination of useful scientific information calcu-
! lated to expand the mind and improve the heart,
shall the columns oft the Pennsylvania Farmer and
Common School Tntelgencer, be exclusively devot-
Cd, and it is confidently expected that a generous
public will award to it liberal support.
The Farmer and Inteigcncer will be printed up
on fine white paper and with new type, in royal
quarto from, each number containing eight pages of
| matter. 1t will be commenced in the month of
November, or as soon a sufficient number of sub
scribers obtained to justify the expense and re-
gularly issued during the first and third weeks of
every month, at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM
| payable before the issuing of the sixth number.
Any person who will procure and forward ten res
ponsible subscribers shall receive copy, eleven
papers will be sent to any one office for SlO
Post masters and others friendly to the objects
are requested to act as agents in obtaining subscr-
| bers and forward the names to the publisher on or
| before the first of November next.
| Harrisburg October 81, 1897.