Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-08-28
FARMERS LIBRARY.

Prospectus Of The farmers Library, and Monthlv
Journal Of Agriculture. JOHN S. SKINNER Edi.
! tor. None can we'll have studied the true sources
OF National welfare, without perceiving the natu-
raj and friendly connexon existing between Ma
nutactures. Commerce and agriculture. The po-
hey which strikes at the prosperity of the Manu-
facturlng consumer, must damage the Agricultural
pr0ducer and neither be nurioUSly affected
without detrlment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumer and carrier for both AS, however, the ele-
ments of manufacturing and commercial Industry
must be derived chiefly from the soil, is it not the
obvious interest OF all other classes that the one
which gives TO all their employment and subsist-
ence, should oe encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened industry make available Yet
/ 1t has not been until comparatively late period
in Europe, and still later in America that the pub
/ llc mind has been made properly sensible of the
necessity OF science ID Agriculture, and so to
spect Farming essentially intellectual and
Glgnliled pursuit-one which should imply for its
followers hgh mental cultivation and various
attainments. Happily, however, educated young
men now betaking themselves to Farming, as
a business. which, like the learned professions,
has its principles and will have its literature
and truly it may be asked what subject has lately
gwen rise to memoirs and works more profound
and instructive, or been fruitful of more interest
ing results OF scientific investigation, than A9ri-
culture Who, among modern Literati, enjoy
more enviable distinction than LieGig and John
StOn, and B0usS1Rgdmt and CandoHee The taste
for Agricultural Literature in our country, thanks
to the able journals that encourage it, keeps pace
with lis progress in Europe. The more fully to
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
To publish the first day Of July, and monthly
thereafter, the farmers Library and Monthly
Journal of agriculture, to be edited by JOHN S.
SKINNER late Assistant Postmaster General and
founder of the first Agricultural periodical pub
lished in this country.
Far from being designed or in any way calcu-
lated to affect injuriousy the circulation of exist
ing journals Of less price and wider circulation,
they may supply the Farmers table with lighter
and more agreeable refreshment while IN the Lii
brary he may may find more sold as it will be
more costly food.
Each number will consist of two distinct parts,
|. The Farmers Library, in which will be pub
lished continuously the best Standard Works on
Agriculture, embracing those which, 10y their cost
or the language in which they are written, would
otherwise seem beyond the reach of nearly all
American Farmers. In this way shall give
for two or three dollars the choicest European
treatises and researches in Agriculture, costing
ten times as much in the original editions, not
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out of
the reach of men who live by following the plough.
In the Farmers Library they will be accompanied
by notes from the Editor, explaining what may be
obscure to American readers or calculated to mis-
lead the beginning in Farming. owing to differen-
ces Of Soil, Climate, &c. The works published
in the Library will form complete series, eXplor-
ing and exhibiting the whole field of Natural
Science, and developing the rich treasures which
Chemistry, Geology. and Mechanics have yielded
and may yield to Tighten the abors and swell the
haryesis Of the intelligent husbandman The
will bo tbot 10 T
Try may be bound up by itself, forming NAM
moth volume Of Geo pages at the end of each year
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paraIelv.
II The Monthly Journal Of agriculture will
likewise contain about so pages per month, and
will comprise, |. Foreign: Selections from the
higher class of British, French and German pc
riodcals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
from new books which may not be published in
the Library, DC. DC. 9. American: Editorials.
communicated and selected accounts of expert
ments, improved processes, discoveries IN Agri-
culture, new implements, &c. In this department
alone will ouls resemble any American work ever
yet published. 1t can hardly be necessary to add
that no Political, Economic, or other cOntroverted
doctrine. will be inculeated through this magazine
lis price will be Five Dollars year in advance,
for two royal octave volumes of 600 pages each.
Each number of the Library will be illustrated
by numerous engrayings, printed on type obtained
expressly for this work, and on good paper-the
whole got up a, such work should be. If it does
not prove the best well as the amplest and most
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published
in this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers. and we are sure it will not fall short
for want Of Industry or devotion in the Editor.
The low and definite rate Of postage chargeable
on such periodical alter the lst Of July-say
SIX TO enit cents a numDeI--Wlll enable many to
take it who would otherwise have been repelled
by the heavy and caprcious exaciions OF The Post
Office. As Postmasers are permitted to frank
money letters to publishers unW that period, and
as we wish to print only so many copies as may be
wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all who
NAV Incline to all us, as early will suit their
convenience. Address
GREELEY d McELRATH
Tribune Office,
Corner Of Spruce street, opposite the City Hall.
New York. July 81, 1919.
nF@ The first number will be published on the
ofI It,tp and thence rPHui9rlV the FIRST