The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-12-10
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING A MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTGMoRE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CULrURIST

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
'NHE SUISSE IBER proposes to issue a
Il monthly sheet, in quarto form, of sixteen pa.
ges, on husbandry, pastoral affairs, and kindred
subjects ia portion of the paper TO be occupied
with notices geographical, statistical and historical
OF such portions of the West will be of most in
tercs. to Western settlers, and also of portions of
the South.
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation of
II is also the most useful the most indenen
dent, the happiest. the healthy, the most pro.
htabe aud the most honorable.
Bot this is not all. Agriculture comprehends in
itself more science, than any other occupation in
the whole circle of human pursuits and industry
theology, chemistry, vegetable physiology, all make
part of the thorough ledge of this most ex-
tensivc and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings OF the vast field of knowledge contai
ed within it, So that if man can be a thorou Oh
agricuturst, 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 a mistaken idea that whatever was in
print was merely speculative, and matter of theory
II IT were so indeed, they would be right in con
dcmning 1t. IL is however a mistaken idea Sci.
cncc Is the result Of experience and practice IL is
the ripe harvest of fac IS rcapcd not by one man in
one field but gathered by all the laborcrs through
out all the harvest fields of the earth in wear after
year from the beginning.
Every Intelligent farmer likes to talk to his uci Oh
or, and draw advantage from bis experience 49,
This experience is no less valuable for being de-
hvered to him in print by types than if il should
be given TO him by bis neighbor, by word Of mouth
II is the same thing.
Skill in the manual of hoeing and plouphino can
never make a Farmer. II makes only an apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication Of agricnltu
raj papers and societies in this country there has
bccu great improvement in the state of aercul.
turc.
Itis 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 as may assist ipht
IN and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orabe toll of the farmer.
secondary object will he to give i'm formation TO
persons making settlement in the West: from per
sonal knowledge mostly-so that they will be bic
20 make judicous selections and proceed in the es-
iablishng Of their homes to best advapta &C
and some description Of the lands of MARYLAND and
Virginia, with the modes Of renovatino Them
The price will be one dollar, invariably in adj.
vance.
Agricultural md Emigration Societies. and 9th.
crs who subscribc for ono hundred copies or more
will be Supplied ~ G75 per hindrS1
POstmssters and country collectors are reo,testcd
70 act a. agents. All such will be allowed 30 nor
cent; and any person sending five dollars will have
sig copies.
ost3o wM. - BRADFORD.