The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-11-27
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING a MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMORE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CITITIRIST

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On subjects connected with Agriculture to include
an Emigrants' Department, containing such in
formation as may be useful to persons making
settlement in the West, or seeking new fields of
agricultural enterprise.
THE SUBSCRIBER proposes to issue a
u monthly sheet, in quarto form, Of sixteen pa
ges, 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 as will be of most in
terest 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 indcpen-
dent, the happiest, the most healthy, the most pro-
htable md the most honorable.
Bot this Is not all. Agriculture comprchends in
itself more science, than any other occupation i'm
the whole circle Of human pursuits and industry
GEOLOGY, chemistry, vegetable physiology, all make
a part of the thorough knowledge of this most ex.
iensive and useful art. They arc indeed bot the
beginnings Of the vast field of knowledge contain.
ed within it. So that if man can be a thorough
agrculturist, he will be in the large sense of the
word learned man.
Farmers however have been, to a great extent
opposed to what they called science or book farm
ing from mistaken idea that Whatever was in
print was merely speculative, and matter Of theory
II II were so indeed, they would be right in con.
dcmning 1t. II is however a mistaken idea Sci
ence is the result of experience and practice II is
the ripe harvest Of facts rcaped not by one man in
one field but gathered by all the laborcrs tbrourb.
out all the harvest fields Of the earth in wear sftcI
year from The beginning.
. very intelligent iarmer likes to talk to his neigh.
This experience is no less valuable for being dc.
livcrcd to him in print by types than if IL should
be given to him by biz nefghbor, by word Of mouth
II is the same thing.
Skill in the manual of hoeing and ploughing can
never make farmer. II rnakcs only an apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication of arricultu
raj papers and societies in this country there has
been great improvement in the state Of agricul.
ture.
IT is designed tn 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 fcrtizcrs
and such discoveries of science ~ may assist light
IN and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
Orable toll of the farmer.
secondary object will be TO give informal ton TO
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 o.
tahlishing of their homes to best ADVANTAGE
and some description Of the lands Of MARYLAND and
virginia, with the modes Of renovttine them
The price will be one dollar, invariably in adj
vance. " "
Agricultural and Emigration Societies. and 9th
ers who subscrbc for ono hundred copies or more
will be supplied AT S75 per hundred.
Postmaster and country collectors arc requested
tn act as agents. All such wjU be allovcd % no.,
cent; and any person sending Eve dollars will have
six copics.
Oot3a VIZ. J. 4. BRADFORD.