The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-12-12
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING A MONTHLY PAPER
BALTIMORE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CULTURIST.

On subjects connected with Agriculture, to include
an Emigrants' Department, containing such in
fnrmut a. may De useful to persons making
settlement in the West, seeking fields of
agricultural enterprise.
THE SUBSCRIBER proposes to issue
Il monthly sheet, in quarto form, of sixteen pa.
gcs on husbandry, pastoral affairs, and kindred
subjects "a portion of the paper TO be occupied
with notices geographical, statistical and historical
tercs; to Western settlers and also of portions of
the South.
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation of
man. 1t is also the most useful the most indepen-
dent, the happiest the most healthy, the most pro-
ftable nd the most honorable.
Bot this is not all. Agriculture comprchends in
itself more science, than any other occupation in
the whole circle Of hu pursuits aud industry.
Geology, chemistry, vegetable physiology, all make
Il part Of the thorough knowlcdgc of this most cx-
tensivc and useful art. They indeed but the
beginnings of the vast field of knowledge contain
ed within it. So that if man can be thorough
Agricultural, he will be in the large of the
word learned man.
Farmers however have been, to a great extent,
opposed to- whai they called -ciCucc, or book farm
ing, from mistaken idea that whatever was in
print was merely speculative and mater If theory.
If it were indeed, they would be right in CON
dcmning il. II is however a mistaken idea. Sci
is the result of experience and practice Ii is
the ripe harvest of fac is, rcaped not by in
one field but gathered by ALT the lahorers through
out all the harvest fcIds Of tho Garth in year after
year from the beginning.
Every intelligent armcr ll;cs b. talk Co his nci gh-
or, and draw advantage from his experience
This experience is no less valuable for being de-
livered to him in print, by types, than if ii should
be given to him by bis ncighbor, by word Of mouth
IL is the same thing.
Skill in the manual of boeing and poughiue can
never make farmer. II makes only apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication Of agricultu.
raj papers and societies in this country, there has
been great improvement in the state of agricul-
turc.
II is designed to give in this paper all useful gen
cral intelligence relating to rural affairs and
omy, whether of implements, stocks, seeds, modes
Of culture articles of cultivation, soils fertilizers;
and such discoveries Of science as may assist light
On and make moro profitable the hardy and hon
orablc toll of the farmer.
secondary object will he to give information to
persons making settlement in the West from per.
sonal knowledge mostly-so that they will be a bic
10 make udcious selections and proceed i'm the &C.
tablishing of their new hpmes to best advauta re
and some description Of the lands Of MARYLAND nd
! virginia, with the modes Of renovatiup them
/ The price will be one dollar, invariably in adj
vance.
! Agricultural and Emigration Societies. and 9th.
era who subscribe for ono hundred copies or more
/ will be supplied az SIS per hundred
Posimastcrs and country collectors are requested
| to act agents. All such will be allowed 20 pc
cent; and any person sending five dollars will bav,
six copies
ost8o WV. J. 4. BRADFORD.