New-York daily tribune., 1845-04-19
PROSPECTUS
THE FARMERS LIBRARY
MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTUR.
JOHN 8. SKINNER, EDITOR.

the rapid and cheering advances now making IN
the application of the discoveries and principles of
Science in aid of Human Industry, have made
arrangements with john 5. SKINNER, Gate .. 5.
Assistant Postmaster General, and for the last
twenty years honorably connected with the cause
of Agricultural Improvement,) 10 edit Tor them
MONTHLY JoURHAL OF AGRICULTURE, which they
tr,s, will be found not inferior to any Agricultural
work in existence.
Each number will consist OF two distinct parts, VIZ
!. The FARMERS LIBRARY, in which will be pub
lished continuously the best Standard Works on
Agriculture, embracing those which, by their cost
or the language in which they are written, would
otherwise seem beyond the reach of nearly all
American Farmers For instance, we shall begin
with StephenS's Book Of the Farm, recent Eng
iish work Of the very highest character, forming
complete Encyclopedia Of practical directions TO
the hushandman. This work now costs Twenty
six Dollars, and cannot be had for less sum,
placing it virtually out of the reach OF men who
live by following the pow. But in the Farmers
Library it will cost some two or three dollars,
being edited and adapted to the climate and other
circumstances Of this country, omttlng those por
tions which might mislead beginner on our SOIL
This work will be followed by others OF like merit,
exploring 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 labors and swell the
harves,s of the intelligent husbandman. The work
will he so. arranged that the Farmers Library may
be bound up by itself, forming mammoth volume
Of 600 pages at the end of each year; each work
contained therein may be bound separately.
L. The MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE will
likewise contain about so pages per month, and will
comprise I. Foreign: Selections from the higher
class of British, French and German periodicals. de-
voted 10 Agriculture with extractsfrom new books
which nay no, be published in the Library, &c. &c
z. American: Editorials, communicated and se-
iccted accounts of experiments improved processes,
discoveries in Agriculture, new implements, &c.
&c In this department alone will ours resemble
nnv American work everyet published. II can hard
ly be necessary to add that no POLITICAL Economic,
or other controverted doctrine, will be Inculcaed
through this magazine. Its price will be Five Dol
lars wear in advance, for two royal octave volumes
OF 600 pages each.
Awnre that the large majority OF our Farmers
consider (most mistakenly the truths OF Science
and the diversified experience OF the best Farmers,
throughout the world of little value TO them, and
the money paid for knowledge in regard 10 their
business virtually thrown away, while thousands
think they cannot afford TO give Five Dollars Tor
information who do afford 10 lose hundreds OF dol
lars for want OF it, we confidently appeal to all men
of prorerly, large landholders, manufacturers, mer-
chants professional men, &c. &c. TO encourage this
enterprise by subscribing for the work. Every land
holder is specially interested in giving 10 the I'M
mense aggregate Of Intellectual activity ndomlia-
be energy and personal ambition now developing
itself among us a direction toward the cultivation OF
the soil Melancholy has been the spectacle OF our
Young Men of talent and promise almost UNIVERSAL
" fying from Agriculture, though II afforded no
scope for their Abilities no goal for their ambition,
10 find in cities, and professions, and the ways OF
traffic the scope and the opportunity they sigh tor.
Every man now engaged in other pursuits has d.
rect interest in arresng this tendency, which
threatened to ruin Trade and Professions by exces-
sve competition, while desoatng the Earth by de-
pyiving i, of that liberal proportion Of human capa-
city aud knowledge which is essential TO its tit cul-
tivs,ion and adequate frui,fulness. The Merchant,
the Physician, the Clergyman, therefore, who can
succeed in awakening in those around him an en-
thusiastc devotion to Agriculture, and thus increas
ing the number of Farmers and the product of Their
labor will not merely confer blessing on his
,
oan hardly fail TO return upon himself. We con-
fden,ly appeal, then, TO the Literally educated OF
all classes 10 aid us in procuring Subscriptions. There
is no village in the country so small that al least one
cory of The Farmers Library might not be taken
In ii, by few persons clubbing ii no one telt able
to take il alone If thus should become the basis OF
aweeky gathering of Farmers and others interest
ed in Agriculture for reading, comment and the IN
i. ~ l,,., rN,,ik ke
still more striking.
- Each number Of the Library viii be illustrated
by numerous Engravings, printed on type obtained
expressly Tor this work, and on good Paper-the
whole got up us such work should be- II II does
not prove the bes, rs well as the ampest and mos,
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published IN
this Country, the fault shall not rest with the pub
lishers, and sure il will not fall short tor
wan, OF industry or devotion In the Editor. The
low and definite rate of Postage chargeable on
such periodical after the Is; of July-say SIX 10
eight cents number--will enable many 10 take II
who would otherwise have been repeed by the
heavy and capricious exactions of the Post Office
As Pos,nas,ers are permitted 10 frank money let
ters TO publishers uaR that period, ana as we wish
10 prin, only so many copies as may be wanted,
we ,esosc,fully solicit orders from all who may
incline 10 aid us, as early as will suit their
fence. Address, GREELEY Il McELRATH,
Rer-rors Apr1ls. ls4S. Tribune oaics 100 Nassan-s'
---zE---------
MS Hon Willis GREEN reached Lexington,
XIV. on the loh instant. on his way home, and
soon after his arrival discharged The duty imposed
upon hun by the members Of the Clay Clubs OF ihis
CIV, of presenting 20 HENgY CLAY the Address pre-
pared by them for him
ny. We have now had two or three days Of sour,
spittiag Northeast weather, but not half so much
rain as we need We hope the wind will hold
North. East till we ge, rain enough great deal
of seed is ro,ted in the ground, and we fear the
Fruit through all this region is badly injured by the
>.iI hl,Sts esnecallv of The daY OF our ElecuOn,