The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-11-14
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING \ MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMoRE, TO BE ALLIED
CuLTHRIST

III CULTURIST.
on subjects connected with Agriculture, to include
an Emigrants' Department, containing such in
formation as may be useful to persons making a
settlement IN the West, or seeking new fields Of
agricultural enterprise.
TNHE SUBSCRIBER PROPOSES to issue a
IL monthly sheet, IN quarto form, of sixteen pa.
gcs, on husbandrr, pastoral AFFAIR.", and kindred
subjects "a portion OF the paper TO he occupied
with notices geographical, statistical and historical
OF such portions of the West as will be of most in
tercs: to Western settlers, and also of portions of
The South.
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation of
man. IL Is also the most useful, the most indepen-
dent, the ha2piest, the most healthy, the most pro.
htabiS aud the most honorable.
But this is not all. Agriculture comprchcnds in
liseli more science, than any other occupation in
the whole c rclc Of human pursuits aud industry.
geology. chemistry, vegetable physiology, all make
a part OF the thorough knowledge of this most cx-
tenslvc and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings Of the vast field of knowledge contain
eh WITHIN II. SO thlt If a man can be a thorough
agTCuiturlst, he VIII 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
lng' from Il mistaken idea that whatever was in
PRINT was merely speculative, and matter of theory.
II II we're so indeed, they would be right in con.
oeihnihg II. It's however a mistaken idea. Sci
ehce Is the result OF OK pcriencc and practice. Ii is
the ripe harvest of fac Is, rcaped not by one man i'm
one field but gathered by all the laborers through.
out all the harvest fields Of the earth i'm wear after
year from the beginning.
9 very ntelligenttarme likes to talk to his neigh.
or, and draw advantage from his experience
this experience is no less valuable for being dc
Illvered to him in print, by types, than if it should
be given to him by his %neighbor, by word of mouth.
II Is the same thing.
Skill in the manual of hoeing and ploughine can
never make a ftrmcr. 1t makes only an app. entice
IN the art. Since the multiplication Of agricultu
raj papers and societies in this country, there has
been a great Improvement in the state of agricul-
turc.
1t is designed to give in this paper all useful gen.
cral 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 ofsciencc as may assist. light.
IN and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orablc toll of the farmer.
A secondary object will he to give information Ia
persons making settlement in the West from per.
sonal knowledge mostly-so that they will be able
to make Judicious 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 tine modes of renOvh;iug them.
The price will be one dollar, invariably in adj.
vance.
Agricultural and Emigration Societies, and 9th.
ers who subscribe for one hundred copies or more,
will be supplied at SIS per hundred.
Postmasters and country collectors are requested
to act as agents. AL such will be allow cd2O per
cent; and any person sending five dollars will have
six copies.
Oct@ 30 WIN. J. a. BRADFORD.