The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-11-25
PEcsPESTJS
Pennsylvania Farmer,
nd Common School InfeWgencer /.


A semi-monthly publication devoted 10 Agriculture
Gardening, and the General Improvement of the
Mind, published at Harrisburg, by BENJAMIN
PARRE.
Nothing need be said as TO the importance Of the
science Of agriculture, which being the great husi-
Of our country, the sure road to competency
and the main source ofwcath lies at the foundation
of our national prosperity. The experience ofevcry
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. Tho
great desire of the present age for the accumulation
ofweah 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 of professional life, and commercial
enterprise or the still more hazardous fields of
speculation and adventure, in which fclO 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 of the soil with such an
enormous increase in the price, Ms to cause their
importatons from foreign countries, to the great
impoverishing and discredit Of our own.
This folly and these ills have now become ap-
parent and many of those who, having been ured
by the examples and success ofohers the prospect
held out to their view, from the producing to the
consuming class, and being disappointed in theirex-
pectations, are now disposed and making arrange
mcns to return TO the hone t. the healthfu and the
Independent employment of tilling the soil-whes
they are sure of being amply recompcnscd for their
labor.
Pennsylvania is cmphatically an agricultural
state, and has thus suffered less from the late uctua-
tlons 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. 1t has there
lore been considered peculiarly proper that in tho
heart OF this garden of country IN agricultural
paper should be established to gather up the expei-
fence of intelligent farmers from all quarters, and
send 1t abroad, not only yer our commonwealth,
but to every part of the United States. For tho
purpose of doing this, and supplying what has been
considered deSideydfUn 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
INN confidently TO expect that It's columns will be
enriched with contributions from of the most
distinguished scientific and practical farmers and
gardeners IN our own, well as of our sister
states, which with extracts and rcpublications of
standard and new works upon the science of agrcul-
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 is intondedto to carry the blessings of knowledge
to every man home, and place within the reach Of
every child in the commonwealth, the means of in.
struction and improvement. This object is all i'm
portant, and our means being ample it is confidently
hoped that the plan will continue to be improved
u carried out till the minds of four citizens shall he
as highly cultivated as their fields and the harvest
OF intellect be Iich and abundant as that gathered
from the soil Then shall Pennsylvania be indeed
the keystone of our Un'on, bearing a polish not
equalled by any state or kingdom in Inc world.
The everfts Of the last few months have shown
that an Increasing interest is felt in this department
and therefore it cannot be doubted but that the
Common School Intelligcncer will be welcomed as
aco-laborer in so important work, and being made
the vehicle 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
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 column of the Pennsylvania Farmer and
Common School Inelligencer, be exclusively dovot-
3D. and It is confidently expected that a generous
public will award to il a liberal support.
The Farmer and Intelligenccr 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
scnbcrs are obtained to Justify the expense, and
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
ponsble subscribers shall receive copy, or eleven
papers will he sent to any one office for $40.
Post masters and others friendly to the objects
are requested to act as agents in obtaining subscri.
bers and forward the names to the publisher on or
before the first of November next,
Harrisburg October 81, 1887.