Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-09-11
FARMERS LIBRARY.

FAkMERS LIBRARY.
| Prospectus Of the farmers Library, and Monthly
Journal Of Agriculture. JOHN S. SKINNER, Edi-
tor None can well have studied the true sources
OF National welfare, without perceivino the natu-
raj and friendly connexon existing between Ma
nutactures, Commerce and Agriculture. The po-
hey which strikes at the prosperity OF the Manu-
iacturng consumer, must damage the agricultural
producer, and neither can be nuriously affected
without deriment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumer and carrier for both As, however. the ele-
meats of manufacturing and commercial industry
must be derived chiefly from the SOIL is it not the
obvious interest of all other classes that the one
which gives to all their employment and Subsst-
ence, should oe encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened industry make available Yet
! il has moi been until comparatively late period
In Europe, and still later IN America that the pub
! lie mind has been made properly sensible OF the
necessity of science to Agriculture, and so to re-
! SpeCt Farming essentially an intellectual and
! dignifed purSuit-one which should imply for its
followers high mental cultivation and various
attainments. Happily, however, educated young
men now betaking themselves TO Farming, as
business, which, like the learned professions,
has Its own principles and will have its literature
! and truly it may be asked what subject has lately
gwen rise to memoirs and works more profound
and instructive, been fruitful of more interest
| ing results OF scientific investigation, than Aer-
culture Who, among modern Literati, enjoy
more envable distinction than Liebig and John
ston, and BouSSsngauH and CandOlie 2 The taste
for, Agricultural Literature in our country, thanks
to the able journals that encourage it, keeps pace
with its progress in Europe. The more fully to
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
10 publish or the frs. day of July, and monthly
thereafter, the farmers Library and Monthly
Journal Of agriculture, to be edited by JOHN s.
SKINNER, late Assistant Postmaster General and
founder Of the first Agricultural periodical pub
lished in this country.
Far from being designed or in any way calcu-
lated to affect nuriousIy the circulation of exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation,
they may supply the Farmers table with lighter
and more agreeable refreshment, while IN the Lii
brary he may may find more solid as it will be
; more costly food.
Each number will conss, of two distinct parts,
viz. -
l., TIE Farmers Library, in which will be pub
lished 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 way we shall give
for two or three dollars the choicest European
treatises and researches in Agriculture, costing
ten times as much in the original editions not
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out of
the reach of men who live by following the plough.
In the Farmers Library they will be accompanied
! by notes from the Editor, explaining what may be
obscure to American readers or calculated to mis-
lead the beginning in Farming. owing to differen-
ces of Soil, Climate, &c. The works published
in the Library will form complete series, explor-
ing and exhibiting the whole field of Natural
Science, and developing the rich treasures which
Chemistry, Geology, and Mechanics, have yielded
and may yield TO tighten the labors and swell the
harvestS of the intelligent husbandman The
work will be so arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by itself, forming man.
moth volume of 600 pages at the end of each year !;
| or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paratelv.
| II TIE Monthly Journal of Agriculture will
! likewise contain about so pages per month, and
will comprise, |. Foreign: Selections from the
| higher class of British, French and German pc
riodicals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
! from new books which may not be published in
the Library, &c. &c. 3. American: Editorials,
communicated and selected accounts of expert
nenls, improved processes, discoveries IN Agrl-
culture, new implements. &c. In this department
alone will ours resemble any American work ever
yet published 1t can hardly be necessary TO add
that no Political Economic, or other controverted
doctrine will be nculcated through this magazine
It's price will be Five Dollars year in advance,
for two royal octave volumes of 600 pages EACH
| Each number of the Library will be illustrated
by Numerous engravings, printed on type obtained
expressly for this work, and on good paper-the
whole got up as such work should be. fit does
not prove the best as well as the amplest and most
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published
in this country the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and we are sure it will not fall short
for 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 to eight cents a number-will enable many to
take it who would otherwise have been repelled
by the heavy and caprcious exactions ofth Post
Office. AS Postmasers 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 their
convenience. Address
GREELEY d McELRATH
Tribune Office,
Corner of Spruce-street. opposite the City Hail.
| New York, July 81, l6i5.
| ~ The first number will be published on the
lst dav of July and thence regularly on the first