The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-12-11
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMoRE, TO BE ALLIED
THE CULTURIS'F

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, seeking new fields of
agricultural enterprise.
THE SUBSCRIBER proposes to issue a
IL 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 will be of most in
the South
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation of
man it u also the most useful the most indepcn-
dent, the happcst, the most healthy, the most pro-
ftaba and the most honorable.
But this is not all. Agriculture comprehcnds i'm
itself more scicnec, than any other occupation in
the whole circle of human pursuits and industry
Geology, chemistry vegetable physiology, all make
a part of the thorough knowledge of this most ex-
tcnsive and useful art. They are indeed but the
beginnings Of the vast field Of knowledge contain
cd within it. SO thrt if man can be a thorough
Agricultural, he will be in the large of the
word learned man.
Farmers however have been, to a great extent
opposed to villa, they called science, book farm
ing, from mistaken idea that whatever was in
print was merely speculative. and matter of theory
il it were so indeed, they would be right in con
demnin@ it. It's however mistaken idea Sci
encc is the result of experience and practice II is
the ripe harvest of fac IS rcapcd not by one MN i'm
one field but gathered by all the laborers through
all the harvest fields Of the earth in year after
year from the beginning.
Every iutclgcut armcr likes TO talk to his pciob.
or, and draw advantage from his experience. &c.,
This experience is less valuable for beincr de-
lvcred to him in print, by types, than if it should
be given to him by his ncighbor, by word of mouth
IL is the same thing.
skill in the manual of hoeing and ploughinr can
never make q farmer. " r0a kos only an apprentice
i'm the art Since the multiplication Of agricultu.
raj papers aud societies in this country there has
been great improvement in the state of agricml-
ture.
II is designed to give in this paper all useful gen
crai intelligence relating 10 rural affairs and econ.
omv, whether Of implements, stocks. seeds modes
Of culture. articles of cultivation soils or fcrtizcrs
and such discoveries ofsciencc may assist light.
and make more profitable the hardy and hon.
orable toll Of the farmer.
secondary object will he to give information 10
persons making settlement ia the West: from per
sonal knowledge mostly-so that they will be bic
to make judicious selections, and proceed i'm the &C.
tahlishing Of their new homes to best advantage.
and some description Of the lands Of MARYLAND and
Virginia, with the modes Of renovatinr them
The price will be one dollar, invariably in ad.
va nee.
Agricultural md Emigration Societies. and 9th.
ers who subscribe for ono hundred comics or more
will be supplied at S75 per hundrel
POstmastcrs and country collectors arc requested
to act as agents. All such will DC allowed 90 Der
cont; and any person sending five dollars will have
six copies.
ostsO WA. J. 4. BRADFORD.