New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-03
From The National InteIl.gencer.

snnears To US exceeding wellexecuted journal,
has lately reached US and we feel II to be duty
which we discharge with real satisfaction 10 place
before our readers as full detail Of its objects and
contents as our columns will allow, and az correct
view Of the manner in which its contents assist
elucidate, and promote its avowed objects as our
very limited knowledge of Agriculture enables US to
prepare.
To say one word respecting the importance OF az
ricuture would be work OF uDequvocai super
erogation With whatever earnestness ana what
ever warmth Of zeal we have advocated the cause
of domestic industry and the development OF our
national resources by home manufactures, there has
been no consideration whatever which has given a
stronger impulse TO that course than the conviction
that by so doing we were providing Tor that with
out which Agriculture could not prosper-a home
market for IT'S produce The patriotism OF that
man may well be questioned who, ia advocating
any one branch of national industry loses sigh, OF
the interests of any other. Agriculture Manufac-
lures. and Commerce are the undenable sources OF
national prosperity, wealth, and power The first
is the basis of the social fabric, the foundation OF
individual comfort, and of aggregated power. The
loom of the manufacturer converts the produce OF
the field and the flock into useful fabrics, and the
vessel of the merchant transfers the surplus product
of the aerculturis; and the manufacturer TO other
countries whence are received in exchange those
articles which the sun and the soil of our coun-
try will not yield to industry or our skill.
We are aware that we are repeating truisms
but we care not for the imputation, knowing that
they arc trusms which ought never to be lost sight
Of and that unless they made the basis OF our
national policy, the best hopes Of our thriving and
bappyrountry may be wrecked and the daily trust
and the nightly prayer of the patriot and the philan-
,bropis as to its long and glorious career rendered
nugatory and abortve.
We repeat that however highly we may estimate
manufactures and commerce as elements of national
greatness we still regard them rs subservieni to
and dependent upos Agriculture. Wcare convinced
that the greatest achievement of legislative wisdom
would be the establishment Of such system as,
without unnecessary interference with individual
action, would protect the interests OF all these
branches of industrial pursuit, without allowing any
one of the three encroach upon the interests oil
either of the others. We are glad that each OF
these interests has now its able advocate IN the held
and we feel that we are only cchong the universal
sentiment that the cause Of Agriculture could not
have been entrusted in ADLER hands than those othc
Editor of the Farmers Library. Mr.. SKIsNERs
long connection with Agriculture and its various
pursuits. extensive knowledge of the arts and sci
enccs with which it is connected the results Of his
industry and skill during the many years tcommcn
cling in 1870 in which he edited the American Far
mer," and the numerous publications with which
he has enriched our agricultural library, all testify
to his fitness for the Office which he now occupies
We congratulate the publishers Of the Farmers Ii
brary that they have secured Mr. SklSNERs valua
bic assistance, convinced that much individual and
general good will be evolved by his pen in the pros
ecution of his editorial abors-
The September number of The Farmers Libra
nv" is divided into two parts The first consisting OF
forty-cight pages, contains the commencement oil
&c 7Haers Principles Of Agriciiture,' work origi
nalv written in the German language, and spoken
of in the highest terms by the most celebrated agri
cuturists of Great Britain and Continental Europe.
Dr. Thaer was native of Celle, IN Hanover; me
moir of his life which is prcfixed to the commence
ment of his work is very interesting. Ii shows his
amable disposition and his professional skill and
evidences his devotion 10 agricultural pursuits. lie
died in 1928 at the advanced age OF seventy SIX.
Dr. Thaer's great work translated into English
by Messrs Shaw and Johnson, distinguished Eng
lish aerculturs,s and published in London in ls44,
and this translation containing in the original l,i0O
pages is to be furnished the readers of the Farm
ers Library" in the present volume OF that publi0a
ton. Mr. Skinner says in his well-writen intro
duction to DR.. Thaer's work
"All that we regret is, that while satisfied
int ba h.aif Va
on the Principles OF Agriculture will be read with
hearty appreciation and decided profit 1t resrains US
for the time from presenting so many other things on
| hand which are sure must tend TO enrich the
Farmers Library making II, as we have before said,
what we so ardcnily desire 10 do, an amusing and
useful companion and guide for the old and the
Young. the father and the II in this way we can
lift the character of the American farmer to higher
intellectual distinction and assist in causing Inc at
tanment of knowledge 10 be regarded as the surest
path Of honor and the common goal OF ambition we
shall prize il far above the highest official elevation
| in the power of any Government or people TO be
stow.
"Will those who would have the rising genera
lion of farmers thus instructed and thus inspired as
sist in getting an assured support for a work OF
which that is aud ever will be, the principal aim =
That this question will be answered in the affirm
alive. we will not entertain fear. We will not IL
bel our agricultural fellow citizens by single doubt
upon the subject all that we are anxious for Is that
the knowledge of the existence of the Farmers
Library may be spread far and wide, and we trust
tina, small portion Of the columns OF every journal
throughout, the Unios at least of every one which
crculatcs in the rural districts will be dedicated to
this purpose.
We have stated that forty eight pages OF the mum
Der before us are dedicated 10 the puhlicnon OF Dr
Thaer's work on Agriculture, Of which the portion
now given contains "A sketch Of Systematic Agri-
culture and the economy, organization ana Ill
rec,on of an agricultural enterprise Under these
heads are embraced many subjects of primary i'm
por,ance TO farmers, and we have every confidence
,ha, they are handled with great ski by man who
received the decided appreciation OF all the leading
agrculturists OF Europe. We observe number Of
notes a, the foo, Of the pages by Mr. Skinner which
will increase the value of the work to an American
reader.
The second pan of the September number extend:
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