Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-08-07
FARMERS LIBRARY

prospectus Of The Farmers Library, and Monthlv
Journal Of Agriculture. JOHN S. SKINNER. Edi.
tor: None can we'll have studied the true sources
OF National welfare, without perceivinp the natu
RAJ ana friendly conneXion existing between Ma
hutactufes. Commerce and agriculture The no.
licy winch strikes at the prosperity of the Mann
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be injuriousy affected
without detrlment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumner and carrier for both AS, however. the ele-
ments OF manufacturing and commercial industry
must be derived chiefly from the soil is it not the
obvious interest of all other classes that the one
which gives to all their employment and subsst-
ence, should oe encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened Industry make available Yet
1t mas mol been until comparatively late period
In Europe, and still later In America, that the pub
lIc mind has been made properly sensible of the
necessity OF science to Agriculture and so to re-
spect Farming as essentially an intellectual and
di2niled pursuit-One which should imply for its
followers high mental cultivation and varioas
attanments. Happily, however, educated young
men are now betaking themselves to Farming, as
business, which, like the learned professions,
has It's own prlncp pies and will have its literature
and truly il may be asked what subject has lately
gwen rise to memoirs aud works more profound
and instructive, or been fruitful of more interest
ING results o scientific investig atUn, than eri-
buttuIc w no, Among WOGefn DuGratl. enjoy
more envlable distinction than Lje6io and J0hn
stOn, and BousSingauu and CandoHe! The taste
for Agricultural Literature in our country, thanks
to the able journals that encourage it, keeps pace
with It's progress in Europe The more fully to
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
to publish on the first day of July, and monthly
thereafter the Farmers Library and Monthly
Journal Of Agriculture, to be edited by JOHN s.
SKINNER, late Assistant Postmaster General and
fnunIer nf tho ErSr Y,1h
lished in this country.
Far from being designed or in any way calcu-
lated to affect lnjurously the circulation of exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation
they may supply the Farmers table with lighter
and more agreeable relreshment, while IN the Lii
brary he may may find more solid as it will be
more costly food.
viz. -
|. The Farmers Library, in which will be pub
lished continuously the best Standard Words on
Agriculture, embracing those which, by their cost
the language in which they written, would
otherwise seem beyond the reach of nearly all
American Farmers. In this way we shall give
for two three dollars the choicest European
treatises and researches in Agriculture, costing
ten times as much in the original editions, not
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out of
the reach Of men who live by following the plough.
In the Farmers Library they will be accompanied
by notes from the Editor, explaining what may be
obscure to American readers, or calculated to mis-
lead the beginning in Farming, owing to dfleren-
ces of Soil. Climate, &c. The works published
in the Library will form complete SERIES explor-
ing and exhibiting the whole field of Natural
Science, and developing the rich treasures which
Chemistry, Geology, and Mechanics have yielded
and may yield to Tighten the labors and swell the
harvests of the intelligent husbandman. The
work will be arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by itself. forming man.
moth volume OF 600 pages at the endof each year
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paratelv.
ii The Monthly Journal Of Agriculture will
! likewise contain about 80 pages per month"; and
will comprise, l.. Foreign: Selections from the
higher class of British, French and German Pc
riodicals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
| from new books which may not be published III
the Library, dc. &c. 2. American: Editorials.
communicated and selected accounts of expert
ments, improved processes, discoveries IN Agri-
culture, new implements, &c In this department
alone will ours resemble any American work ever
yet published. 1t can hardly be necessary 10 add
that no Political, Economic, or other Controyerted
doctrine, will be nculcated through this magazine
It's price will be Five Dollars year in advance
for two royal octave volumes of 600 pages each
Each number Of the Library will be illustrated
by numerous engravings, printed on type obtained
expressly for this work, and on good paper-the
whole got up as such work should be- III doe:
not prove the best well as the amplest and mos
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published
in this country, the fault shall rest with thu
publishers, and are sure it will not tall shor
for want of industry or devotion in the Editor
The low and definite rate of postage chargeablt
on such periodical after the lst of July-sa!
six to eight cents nunlber--will enable many Il
take it who would otherwise have been repelec
by the heavy and capricious exactions oflhe Pos
Office. As Postmasfers are permitted TO franl
money letters to publishers mil that period, am
as we wish to print only so many copies as may b.
wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all win
NAV incline to aid US, as early as will suit thei
convenience Address
GREELEY q McELRATH,
Tribune Office,
Corner Of Spruce street, opposite the City Hall
New York. July 81, 1915.