Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-07-31
FARMERS LIBRARY.

p,ospectus of The Farmers Library, and Month,
l,yrpaI of Agriculture. JOHN S. SKINNkR, Edi.
r None well have studied the true sources
~ National welfare, without perceiving the natu-
r,l and friendly connexlon existing between Ma
,nfactures, Commerce and Agriculture The DO.
lev which strikes at the prosperity of the Manu-
,,c,urng consumer, must damage the Agricultural
,roducer and neither can be inuriousy affected
iir;tbout detriment to the Merchant. at once con.
inner and carrier for both. AS, however the ele-
roon,s of manufacturing and commercial industry
must be derived chiefly from the SOIL is it not the
nbvous interest of all other classes that the one
,,bich gives TO all their employment and subsist-
once should oe encouraged and benefited with
orery advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened industry make available Yet
:, has mol been until comparatively late period
n Europe and still later in America that the pub
Ic mind has been made properly sensible of the
necessity Ol science ID Agriculture. and so to re-
soect Farming as essentially an intellectual and
icnjied pursuii-One which should imply for its
-oI'owers high mental cultivation and varous
snainmeDls Happily, however, educated young
men are now betaklng themselves TO Farming as
. business. which, like the learned professions.
has its own principles and will have its literature :
and truly it may he asked what subject has lately
olyep rise TO memoirs and works more profound
and instructive, or been fruitful of more interest
mo results OF scientific investigation, than Agr-
culture Who, among modern Literai enjoy
more enviabe distinction than Liebig and John
,,5g and B0USSinSdUA and CGndOiie 2 The taste
for Agricultural Literature in our country, thanks
70 the able journals that encourage it, keeps pace
with lis progress in Europe The more fully to
meet the demand thus created we have decided
10 publish on the first day OF July, and monthly
hereafter, the Farmers Library and Monthly
IgaraaL Of agriculture, TO be edited hy JOHN
SKINNER. lale Assistant Postmaster General and
fdader OF the first Agricultural periodical pub
,I,hed in this country.
Far from being designed or in anv wav calcu-
lated 10 affect nlriousy the circulation of exist
lqZ journals of less price and wider circulation
itay may supply the Farmers table with lighter
and more agreeable relreshment, while IN the Lii
brary he may may find more solid as il will be
more costly food.
Each number will consist of two distinct parts
VIZ. -
/. The Farmers Library, in which will be pub
ljshel continuously the best Standard Works on
Agriculture, embracing those which, by their cost
or the language IN which they are written, would
Otherwise seem beyond the reach of nearly all
American Farmers. In this wav we shall give
for Two or three dollars the choicest European
ireaIseS and researches in Agriculture, costing
ten times as much in the original editions, not
td>itN ODt'iiIGO IIlCS. anu virtually Oul
The reach of men who live by following the plough
In The Farmers Library they will be accompanied
by no;es from the Editor, explaining what may be
obscure TO American readers, or calculated to mis-
ead the beginning in Farming, owing to differen-
ces Of Soil. Climate, &c. The works published
IN the Library will form complete series, explor-
Inz and exhibiting the whole field of Natural
Science, ana developing the rich treasures which
Chemistry, Geology, and Mechanics, have yielded
and may yield TO Tighten the labors and swell the
harvesiS of the intelligent husbandman The
work will be arranged that the Farmers Libra
" may be bound up by itself, forming a man,
moth volume of 500 pages at the end of each year !;
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
Paraely.
IL fHe Monthly Journal Of agriculture will
likewise contain about so pages per month, and
viii comprise, |. Foreign: Selections from the
higher class of British, French and German pe-
riodicals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
from new books which may not be published in
The Library, DC DC. 2. American: Editorials.
communicated and selected accounts of expert
uents improved processes, discoveries IN A Agr-
culture, new implements, &c. In this department
alone will ours resemble any American work ever
Vet published. 1t can hardly be necessary 10 add
that no Political, Economic, or other controverted
doctrine will be inculcated through this magazine
It's price will be Five Dollars a year in advance,
for TWO royal octave volumes of 600 pages each.
Each number of the Library will be illustrated
by humorous engravings, printed on type obtained
expressly for this work, and on good paper-the
whole got up Is such work should be. If it does
not prove the best well as the amplest and most
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published
IN this country The fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and we il will not fall short
Tor want of industry or devotion in the Editor.
The low and definite rate of postage chargeable
on such periodical after the lst of July-say
SIX 10 eight cents number-will enable many tc
take it who would otherwise have been repelled
by the heavy and caprlcious exactions Of the Post
0fice As Postmasters are permitted TO frank
money letters to publishers until that period, and
as We wish TO print only so many copies as may be
wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all who
nav incline to aid US, as early as will suit thell
convenience Address
GREELEY & McELRATH,
Tribune Office.
Corner of Spruce -street, opposite the City Hall