The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-12-01
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING A MONTHLY PAPER
IN BALTIMORE, TO BE CALLED
TIL IL Gu LTIJRIST

On subjects connected with Agriculture, to include
an Emlgrants' Department., containing such in
formation may be useful to persons making a
settlement in the West, seeking new fields of
agricultural enterprise.
THE SUBSCRIBE proposes to issue a
Il monthly sheet, in quarto form, of sixteen pa.
ges, on husbandry, pastoral affairs, and kindred
subjects "a portion of the paper TO be occupied
with notices gcograp hical statistical and historical
OF such portions of the West will be of most in
tercst to Western Settlers and also of portions of
the South.
Agriculture is the most ancient occupation of
man 1t is also the most useful, the most indcpen-
dent, the happies, the most healthy the most bro.
ftable and the most honorable.
But this Is not all. Agriculture comprehends in
itself more .cicnce, than any other occupation i'm
the whole circle of human pursuits and industry
Geology, chemistry, vegetable physiology all max
part of the thorough knowledge of this most ex-
tenslvc and useful art. They indeed but the
beginnings OF the vast field of knowledge contain
ed within it. So that if a man can be a thorough
agrculturist, 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 mistaken idea that whatever was in
print Was merely speculative, and matter of theory
III 1t were so indeed, they would be right i'm con.
demning it. It's however a mistaken idea. Sci
enCe is the result of experience and practice IL is
the ripe harvest OF acts, rcaped not by man in
ono field, but gathered by all the aborers through
all the harvest fields of the earth in wear after
year from tho beginning.
= very intelligent armcr likes to talk to his neigh.
or, and draw advantage from his experience
This experience is no less valuable for being de-
lfeercd to him in print, by types, than If IL should
be given to him by his neighbour by word Of mouth
IL is the same thing.
Skill in the manual of hoeing and ploughing can
never make farmer. 1t makes only an apprentice
in The art. Since the multiplication of arricuItu.
raj papers and societies in this country there has
been great improvement in the state of aericul-
ture.
1t is designed to give in this paper all useful gen
eral intelligence relating to rural affairs and econ
omy whether Of implements, stool ks. seeds. modes
Of culture articles of cultivation soils or fertilizers
and such discoveries Of science as NAV assist ioht.
and make more profitable the hardy and hon
orablc toll Of the farmer.
A secondary object will be to give Information to
persons making settlement in tho West: from pcr.
sonal knowledge nostiy-so that they will be able
to make judicious selections, and proceed in the es-
tablishng 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, invariably in adj
vance.
Agricultural and Emigration Societies. and 9th
crs who subscribe for ono hundred copies or more
will be supplied ~ SIS per hundred
PCstrnastcrs and country collectors are requested
to act agents. All such will be allowed 20 Der
cent and any person sending five dollars will have
six copies.
ost3o WV. ,. 4. BRADFORD