Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-09-18
FARMERS LIBRARY.

AnMLhO LlDOAh II
Prospectus Of the Farmers Library, and Monthly
Journal Of Agriculture. JOHN S. SKINNER, Edi-
tor. None can well have studied the true sources
of National welfare, without perceiving the natu-
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
nutactures. Commerce and Agriculture. The po
licy which strikes at the prosperity of the Manu-
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be nuriously affected
without detrment 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 p! Yet
it has mol been until comparatively late period
in Europe, and still later in America, that the pub
lie mind has been made properly sensible of the
necessity of science to Agriculture, and so to
spect Farming as essentially an intellectual and
digni6ed purSuit-one which should imply for its
followers high mental cultivation and various
attainments. Happily, however, educated young
men are now betaking themselves to Farming, as
a business, which, like the learned professions,
has its own 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 Agr
culture +! Who, among modern Literati, enjoy
more enviable distinction than Liebig and John
Ston, and BouSsingault and Cand0Nee The taste
for Agricultural Literature in our country thanks
to the able journals that encourage it, keeps pace
with its progress in Europe. The more fully to
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
TO publish on 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 injurously 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 solid as it will be
more costly food.
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 winch, by their cost
or the language in which they are written, would
otherwise seem beyond the reach of nearly all
American Farmers. In this way we 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 labors and swell the
harvests of the intelligent husbandman. The
work will be SO arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by itself, forming man,
moth volume of 500 pages at the end of each year
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
parately.
H. The Monthly Journal of Agriculture will
likewise contain about so pages per month, and
will comprise, l. Foreign: Selections from the
higher class of British, French and German Pc
riodicals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
from new books which may not be published in
the Library, &c. DC. 2. American Editorials,
communicated and selected accounts of expert
ments, improved processes, discoveries IN Agri-
culture, new implements. &c. In this department
alone will ours resemble any American work ever
vet published. 1t can hardly be necessary TO add
that no Political, Economic, or other controvered
doctrine, will be inculcated through this magazine
Its 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 humorous engravings, printed on type obtained
expressly for this work, and good paper-the
whole gotup as such work should be. IF it does
not prove the best well the amplest and most
Agricultural work ever published
in this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and 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 after the lst of July-say
six to eight cents numbeI--wil enable many to
take it who would otherwise have been repeled
by the heavy and capricious exactions of the Post
Office. AS Postmasters are permitted TO frank
money letters to publishers until that PERIOD and
as we wish to print only many copies may be
wanted, respectfully solicit orders from all who
may incline to aid us, as early as will suit their
Address
GREELEY d MELRATH,
Tribune Office,
Corner of Spruce street, opposite the City Hall.
New York, July 81, ls45
CO The first number will be published on the
L, .of I'll, ,nA r.