The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-11-19
PROSPECTUS
FOX PUBLISHING A MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMoRE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CULTURIST

On subjects connected with Agriculture to include
an Emigrants' Department, containing snch in
formation as may be useful to persons making
settlement in the West, or seeking new fields of
agricultural eutcrpri-e
'TNHE SUBSCRIBER proposes to issue a
Il monthly sheet, in quarto form, of sixteen pa
ges, on husbandry, pastoral affairs, and kindred
subjects "a portion of the paper 10 be occupied
with notices geogra phical statistical and
OF such portions of the West will be Of most in
terest to Western settlers and also of portions of
the South.
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation of
man. 1t is also the most useful, the most indcpen-
dent, the happiest the most healthy the most pro.
htable and the most honorable.
But this is not all. Agriculture comprchends in
l,sel more sclcnec, than any other occupation i'm
the whole circle Of human pursuits aud industry
Geology, chemistry. vegetable physiology, all make
part OF the thorough knowledge of this most cx-
tenslVe and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings of the vast field of knowledge contain
ca within Vt. 50 that If man can be a thorough
agrGulturist he will be in the large sense of the
word learned man.
Farmers however have BEEN to great extent
opposed to what they called science, book farm
ing, from a 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
demning it. IL is however a mistaken idea Sci.
cnce IS the result Of experience and practice II is
inc ripe harvest OF fac is, rcaped not by one man in
one field but gathered by all the laborers through.
out all the harvest fields Of the earth in year after
year from the beginning.
y very inelI gentiarm likes To talk tn bis moi oh
or, and draw advantage from bis experience -
This experience is no less valuable for being de-
iyered to him in print, by types than if it should
be given to him by his neighbor, by word of mouth
1t is the thing.
Skill in the manual of hocing and ploughinp can
never make farmer 1t makes only an apprentice
in the art Since the multiplication of agricult
raj papers and societies in this country there has
been a great improvement in the state of agricul
ture.
II 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 Of science may assist light
cn and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
Orablc toll Of the farmer.
A secondary object will be TO give information 10
persons making settlement in the West from per
sOnal knowledge mostly-so that they will be a bic
to make judcious selections, and proceed in the e.
tablishing Of their new hrmes TO best ADVANTAGE.
and some description Of the lands Of MARYLAND and
VIRGINIA, with tho modes OF rcnovatine them
Inc price will be one dollar, invariably i'm adj.
vance "
Agricultural and Emigration Societies. and 9th.
crs VINO subscribe for hundred copies or more
Will be supplied az S75 per hundred.
Po5lmasters md country collectors are requested
to act ~ agents. All such Vill bc allOwcd 20 Der
mt; ana any person sending i've dollars will have
six copies
oet3o WIN. J. 4. BRADFORD.