The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-11-22
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING a MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMORE, TO BE CALLED
III IL CIIITIIR

HI IL GU LTU RIST.
On SUBJECTS connected with Agriculture to include
an Emigrauts Department, containing such in
formation as may be useful to persons making \
settlement in the West, seeking new fields of
'ENHE SUBSCRIBER proposes to issue n
IL monthly sheet, in quarto form, Of sixteen pa
ScS. on husbandry, pastoral affairs and kindred
subjects "a portion of the paper TO be occupied
with notices geographical statistical and historical
OF such portions of the West will be of most in
terest to Western settlers, and also of portions of
the South. "
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation of
man. Ii is also the most useful, the most indcncn
dent, the bappicst. the healthy, the most pro-
htaole aud the most honorable.
But this Is not all Agriculture comprehcnds in
itself more science, than any other occupation i'm
the whole circle Of human pursuits and industry
Geology, chemistry, vegetable physiology all make
n part of the thorough knowledge of this most ex-
tcDsivc and useful art They are indeed but the
beginnings of the vast field of knowledge contain
ed within it. So that if a man can be a tboro,,gh
agrculturst, he will be in the large sense OF the
word a learned man.
Farmers however have been, to a great extent
opposed to what they called science, or book farm
ing, from a mistaken idea that whatever was in
PRINT was merely speculative, and matter of theory
III 1t were so indeed, they would be right i'm con
aennlng 1t. rs however mistaken idea Sci
encc IS the result of experience and practice IL is
the ripe harvest of facts, rcaped not by one man in
one field. but gathered by all the laborers throupb
year from the beginning
T. very intelligent farmer likes to talk to his nci OH
or, and draw advantage from bis experience
This experience is no less valuable for BEING de-
lvered to him in print, by types than if il sbond
be given to him by his neighbor, by word of mouth.
IL is the same thing.
Skill in the manual of hocing and pIouphinc can
never make farmer. 1t makes only a n apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication of aqricuItu
raj papers and societies i'm this country there has
been great Improvement in the state of ac-riculs
turc.
1t is designed to give in this paper all useful gen.
eral intelligence relating to rural affairs and econ
omy, whether of implements, stocks. seeds. modes
OF culture articles of cultivation soils or fertilizers:
and such discoveries Of science as NAV assist Iiht
en- and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orable toll Of the farmer.
secondary object will be to give inforua ton to
persons making settlement in the West: from ner.
sonal knowledge mostly-so that thcv will be = bic
to make iudicious selections and proceed in the es
tablishing of their new homes to best ADVANTAGE
and some description Of the lands Of MARYLAND and
virginia, with the modes Of rcnovatipcr them
The price will be one COLLAR invariably in adj
vance.
Agricultural and Emigration Societies. and 9th
ers who subscribe for ono hundred comics or more
will be supplied S75 per bundled
POstmastcrs and country collectors arc rcoucsfcl
to act agents. All such will be allowed 20 nc,
cent; and any person sending five dollars will have
six copic5
oct3o WIN J. A. BRADFORD