Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-02-12
FARMERS LIBRARY

Journal of Agriculture. JOHN y SKINNER Edi
tor None can well have studied the true sources
of National welfare, without perceiying the natu.
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma.
nufactufes Commerce and Agriculture The no
Icy which strikes at the prosperity of the Manu.
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be lnluriously affected
without detriment to the Merchant, at once con.
sumer and carrier for both. AS, however the ee.
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 0e encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened industry make availablel Yet
it has mol 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 and
digniied pursuit-one which should imply for its
followers high mental cultivation and varlous
attainments. Happily, however, educated Young
men are 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, or been fruitful of more interest
ing results of scientific investigation, than Aeri-
culture Who, among modern LIterati. enjoy
more enviable distinction than Liebig and John
ston, and Boussingauh and CandoUe2 ? The taste
for Agricultural Literature in 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
to publish the first day of July, and monthly
thereafter, the Farmers Library and Monthiy
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 injurously the circulation of exist
ngjournals 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 it will be
more costly food.
Each number will consist of Two distinct parts,
viz. -
]. The 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 shall give
for two 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 he bound up by itself, forming man.
moth volume of 900 pages at the end of each year
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paratelv.
/ ii The Monthly Journal Of Agriculture will
! likewise contain about so pages per month, and
will comprise, l. Foreign: Selections from the
higher class of British, French and German pc
riodicais devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
from new books which may not be published in
the Library, &c. DC. 2. American: Editorials.
communicated and selected accounts of expert
nents, improved processes discoveries IN Agri-
culture new implements, &c. In this department
alone will ours resemble any American work ever
yet published. 1t can hardly be necessary 70 add
that no Political, Economic, or other conts0verted
doctrine, will be inculcated through this magazine
/ It's price will be Five Dollars wear In advance,
for two royal octave volumes of 600 pages each
Each number of the Library will be illustrated
! by numerous engraylngs, printed on type obtained
expressly tor this work, and on good paper-the
whole got upas such work should be. If ii does
not prove the best we'll as the amplest and most
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published
in this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and 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 Ist of July-say
six to eight cents number--will enable many TO
take it who would otherwise have been repelled
/ by the heavy and capricious exactions ofthe Post
Office. 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
may incline to aid us, as early as will suit thelI
| convenience. Address
/ GREELEY O. McELRATH,
4 Tribune Office,
Corner of Spruce street, opposite the City Hall
New York, july 81, IS45.