The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-12-04
PROSPECTUS
EOR PUBLISHING MONTHLY PAPER
IE ALTIMoRE, TO BE CALLED
.T THE CULTURIST


On subjects co INJECTED with gricuture to include
an Emigran is Department, containing such in
FORMATION as may be useful TO persons making a
settlement ] n the West, or seeking new fields of
agricultural enterprise.
TNHE SU BSCRIBER proposes to issue a
IL monthly sheet, in ouarto form of sixteen ma
ges, on husl)andry. pastoral affairs, and kindred
subjects "a portion of the paper to be occupicd
with notices geographical, statistical and hstorica
OF such portions of the West will be of most in
terest to Western settlers, and also Of portions of
the South HH - -
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation Of
man. Ii is also the most useful the most indenen-
dent the happiest, the healthy the most pro.
ftable aud the most honorable
But this is not ALL Agriculture comprehends in
itself more science, than any other occupation in
the whole circle of human pursuits and industry
Geology, chemistry, vegetablc physiology all make
part of the thorough knowledge of this most ex.
tensive and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings of the vast field of knowledge contain
cd within it. So that if man can be a thorough
agricuituI1s, 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 indeed, they would be ripht in con.
demuing it. IL is however a mistaken idea Sci
ence is the result of experience and practice 1t is
the ripe harvest of facts rsaped not bv one man in
field, but gathered by all the laborers through
out all the harvest fields of the earth in wear after
year from the beginning.
very intelligent armer likes to talk IN HIS NO oh
or, and draw advantage from his eKperience -
This experience is less valuable for bein a. dc
iyered to him in print, by types, than il IL should
be given to him by his ighbor, by word of mouth.
IL is the same thing.
Skill in the manual of hoeine and pIouobino can
never make farmer. H. makes ONLY an apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication of apricujtu.
raj papers and societies in this country there bns
beeu great improvement in the state of agricnl.
ture.
II is designed to give in this paper all usef,l
eral intelligence relatin to rural affairs and econ
! omy, whether of implements, stocks seeds modes
OF culture, articles of cu tivation soils or ferizcrs,
and such discoveries Of science as ma assist Eobt
en- and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orabe toll of the farmer.
A secondary object viii be to give information 10
persons making settcm ent in the West from ner.
sonal knowledge mostly-so that they will be able
to make judicous selections, and proceed in the CO.
tahlishing of their homes to best ADVANTAGE.
and some description Of tho lands of MARYLAND and
Virginia, with the mod ca of renovatino them.
The price will be ore dollar, iuvaTiabfv in adj.
vance.
Agricultural and Emigration Societies. and ofb.
ers who subscribe for one hundred comics or more
will be supplied at SIS per hundred
Posmasters and country collectors are reot,esfed
70 act agents All such will be aIlowc('2 On ncr
cent and any Person sending five dollars will have
six cOpies.
ostSo WN. J. 4. BRADFORD.