The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-11-29
PROSPECTUS
FOX PUBLISHING A MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMORE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CULTURIST.

On su nccts connected with griCulture to include
an Emigrants' Department, containing such in
ior' nation may be useful to persons making a
set element in the West, or seeking new fields of
ag riculturaI enterprise
Nv HE SUBSCRIBE proposes to issue a
Il monthly sheet, in quarto form, of sixteen pa.
ges on husbandry, pastoral affairs, and kindred
sur Jects "a portion of the paper TO be occupied
WI IN notices geographical, statistical and historical
oil such portions of the West will be of most in
te est to Western settlers and also of portions of
tb South.
Aan 1t Is also the most useful, the most indepen-
lent, the haPpiest, the healthy, the most pro
itabls and 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, vegetable physiology, all make
part OF the thorough knowledge of this most cx-
| tensivc and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings Of the vast field of knowledge contain
! ed within it. So that if be a thorough
agrculturist 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, book farm
| ing, from mistaken idea that whatever was in
print was merely speculative, and matter of theory.
III ii were 80 indeed they would be right in con
demning 1t. IL is however mistaken idea Sci
cnce Is the result OF experience and practice 1t is
the ripe harvest of fac ts reapcd not by one man in
one field but gathered by all the laborers through.
out all the harvest hed5 OF the earth in year after
year from the beginning.
very intelligent armer likes to talk TO his neigh.
or, and draw advantage from his experience
MS experience Is no less valuable tor being de-
livcred to him in print, by types than if it should
be given to him by his neghbor, by word of mouth.
| IL Is the same thing
Skill in the manual OF hoeing and ploughinr can
never make a farmer. 1t makes only an a apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication Of agricultu
raj papers and societies ia this country there has
been great improvement in the state of apricul.
ture.
II 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 light.
en- and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orable toll of the farmer.
A secondary object will be to give information 10
persons making settlement in the West from per.
sopal knowledge mosty-so that they will be able
to make udicious selections, and proceed in the CO.
tablishing of their homes to best advanta oe
and some description Of the lands of MARYLAND and
| Virginia, with the modes of renovatinp them
The price will be one dollar, invariably i'm ad.
vance.
Agricultural and Emigration Societies, and 9th.
ers who subscribe for ono hundred comics or more
will be supplied az S75 per hundred
| POstmastcrs and country collectors are requested
to act agents. All such will be allowed 20 Dc,
cent; and any person sending five dollars will bav,
| six copies.
oct2e WA. J. 4. BRADFORD