The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-11-25
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING \ MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMORE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CULTURIST

On subjects connected with Agriculture to include
an Emgrants' Department, containing snch in
formation as may be useful to persons making
settlement in the West, seeking new fields of
agricultural enterprise.
THE SUBSCRIBER proposes to issue
Il monthly sheet, in quartO form, of sixteen ma.
gcs, on husbandrv. pastoral affairs, and kindred
subjects "a portion of the paper 10 be occupied
with notices geographical statistical and historical
oil 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. II is also the most useful, the most indcDen-
dent, the happiest, the healthy the most pro.
hable aud the most honorable
But this is not all. Agriculture comprehends in
itself more science, than any other occup ttion i'm
the whole G rce Of human pursuits and industry
Geology, chemistry, vegetable physiology, all make
n part of the thorough knowledge of this most cx-
ensvc and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings Of the vast field of knowledge contain
ed within it. So thit if man can he 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 1T were so indeed they would be right in CON
demnng il. II is however mistaken idea. Sci
ence is the result Of ocrience and practice II ia
the ripe harvest Of fac is, rcaped by one man in
one field but gathered by all tie aborers through.
out all the harvest fields Of tue earth in wear after
year from the beginning.
very intelligent artner likes to talk to his neigh
This experience is less valuable for being dc.
livcred to him in print, by types than il il should
be given to him by his neighbor, by word Of mouth.
IL is the thing.
Skill in the manual Of hocing and ploughinp can
never make farmer. IT makes only a n apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication Of agricutu
raj papers and societies in this country there has
been a great improvement in the state of agricul-
turc.
u is designed tn give in this paper all useful gen.
cral intelligence relating to rural affairs and ccou-
omy, whether OF implements, ks. seeds, modes
Of culture, articles of cultivation soils or fertilizers;
and such discoveries Of science rs ma assist light
On and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orable toll Of the farmer
A secondary object will be 10 give information TO
persons making settlement in the West: from per
sonai knowledge mostly-so that they will he able
to make iudicious selections and proceed in the CO.
ablishing Of their new hrmes to brst advanta &C
and some description Of the lands Of MARYLAND a nd
Virginia, with the modes Of renoya:iup them
The price will be one dollar, invariably in ad.
vance.
Agricultural and Emigration Societies and 9th.
ers who subscribe for ono hundred copies or more.
will be supplied az SIS per hundred
PostmasteTs and country collectors are requested
N act ~ agents. All such will be allowcd2 20 Der
z. mt; and any person sending five dollars will have
six cOpics.
oet2o WA. J A. BRADFORD.