Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-08-20
FARMERS LIBRARY.

Prospectus of the Farmers Library and Monthly
Journal of Agriculture. JOHN 5. SKINNER, Edi
tor. None can we'll have studied the true sources
of National welfare, without perceiving the natu-
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
nuGactufes. Commerce and Agriculture. The po-
Icy which strikes at the prosperity OF The Manu.
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be lnjuriously affected
without detriment to the Merchant at once con-
sumer and carrier for BOTH AS, however, the eie-
ments 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 subsist-
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 as essentially an intellectual ard
! dignifed pursuit-one which should imply for lis
followers high mental cultivation and vanors
attainmcnts Happily, however, educated young
! men are now betaking themselves to Farming, as
business which, like the learned professions,
has it's 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, or been fruitful OF more Interest
ing results of scientific investigation. than Agr'-
culture Who, among modern Literatl, ENJOY
more enviabe distinction than Lle6ig and John
st0n, and B0usSlngduh and CandoIEe The taste
for Agricultural Literature in our country, thanks
to the able journals that encourage il, keeps pace
with lis progress in Europe. The more fully 10
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
10 publish on the FIST day of July, and monthly
thereafter. the Farmers Library and Monthly
Journal of Agriculture, TO be edited by JoHN ,.
SKINNER, late Assistant Postmaster General and
founder Of the first Agricultural periodical pub
listed in this country.
J Far from being designed or in any way calcu-
lated to affect njurously the circulation OF exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation,
they may supply the Farmers table with lzhte.
and more agreeable refreshment, willie IN the Ii
brarv he may may find more solid as II viii be
: more costly food.
Each nun5er will consist of two distinct parts,
VIZ. =
!. The Farmers Ei5rry-y in which will be pub
4 lished continuously the best STANDARD Worts on
Agriculture, embracing those which, by their coSi
or the language in which they are written. wouf
Z otherwise seem beyond the reach OF nearly al
American Farmers. In this way we shall give
e for two or three dollars the choicest European
# treatises and researches in Agriculture, costing
o ten times as much in the original editions. not
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out ot
the reach of men who live by following the plough
In the Farmers Library they wi be accompanied
by notes from the Editor, explaining what may oe
obscure 10 American readers, or calculated 10 mis-
lead the beginning in Farming. owing to difereD-
sr ces OF Soil, Climate, &c. The works published
r in the Library will form complete series exPor-
u ing and exhibiting the whole field oil Natural
- Science, and developing the rich treasures whlch
Chemistry, Geology. and Mechanics, have yIeGed
and may yield 10 tighten the labors and swell the
y haryests of the intelligent husbandman. Inc
work will be so arranged that the Farmers Libra
as ~ may be bound up by itself, forming man.
IS moth volume of 600 pages at the end OF each year
o. or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
n paratelY.
=, II The Monthly Journal Of Agriculture viii
% likewise contain about so pages per month, and
will comprise, |. Foreign: Selections from tnt
e. higher class of British, French and German pc
er riodcals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
ss from new books which may not be published II
the Library, &c. DC. 2. American: Editorials
-. communicated and selected accounts OF exPen
ments, improved processes discoveries IN Agrt
's culture new implements, &c. In this depar'men
e alone will ours resemble any American WORK eve
n yet published 1t can hardly be necessary TO att
no that no Political Economic other conroyeTtet
"a doctrine will be inculcated through this magazine
H. It's price will be Five Dollars year in advance
m. for two royal octave volumes of 600 pages each
of Each number of the Library will be ILLUSTRATED
II by numerous engravlngs, printed on type ootalre,
i' expressly for this work, and on good paper-i2'
Ia whole got up as such work should be. If doe
not prove the best as we'll as the amplest and mos
ms comprehensive Agricultural work ever publishe
of in this country, the fault shall not rest with tn
publishers, and we sure it will not fall shoi
h., for want of industry or devotion in the Edio'
y, The low and definite rate of postage chargeab
III on such periodical after the Ist of July-sa
'e- six to eight cents number-will enable many
20 take it who would otherwise have been rePeh
he by the heavy and capricious exactons ofthe PC'
lrs Office. AS Postmasters are permitted to tTan
EN- money letters to publishers until that period, ar
re as we wish to print only many copies as may
wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all N'
NAV incline to aid US, as early as will suit ths
r. convenience. Address
-, GREELEY d McELRATR,
-" Tribune Office,
;ef Corner of Spruce street, opposite the City ha-
m New York, July 81, lS45.