The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-12-09
1u PROSPECTUS
FOX PUBLISHING A MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMORE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CULTURIST

On SUBJECTS connected with Agriculture to include
an Emlgrants' Department, containing snch in
formation may be useful to persons making a
settlement in the West, or seeking new fields OF
agricultural enterprise
THE SUBSCRIBER proposes to issue a
a monthly sheet, in quarto form, of sixteen pa.
gcs, 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 az will be of most in
tere5t to Western settlers, and also of portions OF
the South 0a
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation OF
man IL is also the most useful, the most ndepen-
dent the haPpest, the mos healthy, the most pro.
ftabe and the most honorable
Bot tins Is not all. Agriculture compartments in
itself more science, than any other occupation in
the whole circle of human pursuits and industry.
Geology chemistry, vegetable physiology all make
part OF the thorough knowledge of this most ex.
tensivc and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings Of the vast field of knowledge contain
ed within it. So that if man can be a thorough
Agricultural, 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 mistaken idea that whatever was in
print was merely speculative, and matter of theory
If II were so indeed, they would be ripht in con-
demning it. IL is however a mistaken idea Sci.
ence is the result of experience and practice IL is
the ripe harvest of facts, reaped not by one man in
ono field but gathered by all the laborers tbrouob
all the harvest fields Of the earth in wear afte,
year from the beginning.
Every iuteligen farmer likes TO talk to his nei
Or anu dIdW advantage from his experience
This experience is no less valuable for beipo de-
ivered to him in print, by types, than if it should
be given to him by his noighbor, by word Of mouth
IL is the thing.
Skill in the manual of hoeine and pIoupbipo can
never make a farmer. II makes only am apprentice
in the art. Since the multiplication of apricnItu.
raj papers and societies in this country there has
been great improvement in the state of agricul-
ture.
IL is designed to give in this paper all useful zen.
era 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 ma assist Iobt
en- and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orsble toll Of the farmer.
a secondary object viii be to give information to
persons making settlement in the West: from per.
sonal knowledge mostly-so that thev viii he ablo
TO make judcious selections, and proceed in the es-
tablishing Of their new homes to best ADVANTAGE
and some description Of the lands of MARYLAND and
Virginia, with The modes Of renovatino them.
The price will be one dollar, invaTiablv in ed.
vance. "
Agricultural and Emigration Societies and 9TH
crs who subscribe for hundred copies or more
will be supplied at S75 per hundre5
Postnastcrs and country collectors arc reo,,os,o,
n act as agents. All such will he aIIoo,c(tiSo 40
cent and any person sending FIVE dollars will bay,
4i1 copies
oct5o WM. J. A. BRADFORD.