Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-09-03
FARMERS LIBRARY


Prospectus of the Farmers Librqrv. and Nontbzy
Journal of Agriculture. JOHN s. SK,sskR. Ed.
tor. None can well have studied the true sources
OF National welfare, without perceving the natu
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
nutactures. Commerce and Agriculture. The DO
llcy which strikes at the prosperity of the MANN
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be iniuriously affected
"lthout detrlment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumer and carrier for BOTH As, however, the ele-
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
it has not 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
dgniied pursuit-one which should imply for its
followers high mental cultivation and varous
attainments. 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 Literati enjoy
more enviable distinction than Liebig and John
stOn, and Boussingaut and Candolles 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 on the first day of July, and monthly
thereafter, the Farmers Library and MoathIy
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 nurousIy the circulation of exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation.
they may supply the Farmers table with lighter
and more agreeable refreshment, willie IN the Ii
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
llshed continuously the hest Standard Works on
Agriculture, embracing those which, by their COS.
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 cut 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 NAV beN
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, expior
ing and exhibiting the whole field of Natural
Science, and developing the rich treasures which
Chemistry, Geology. and Mechanics, have yielded
and may yield 10 Tighten the laborS and swell tie
harvests Of the intelligent husbandman. The
work viii be arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by itself, forming a man
moth volnme of 600 pages at the end of each year,
or each work contained therein may be buuad Sc
parateiy.
III. Tke Monthly Journal of Agriculture vii
likewise contain about so pages per month, an@
Will comprise, |. Foreign: Selections from tie
higher class Of British French and German pr-
riodicals devoted TO Agriculture, with extracts
from new books which may not be published IN
the Library, &c. dc. .. american: Editorials
communicated and selected accounts of expert
mentS, improved processes, discoveries IN Agr-
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 controyered
doctrine, will be nculcated through this magazine
Its price will be Five Dollars year in advance
lol TWO royal octave volumes OF goo 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. Ifit does
not prove the best as well as the amplest and mos
comprehensive Agricultural work ever publishet
in this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and we are sure it will not fall shoIi
for want of industry or devotion in the Editor
The low and definite rate of postage chargeabs
on such periodical after the LIST Of July-say
SIX to eight cents numbeI-will enable many 70
take it who would otherwise have 'been repee5
by the heavy and capricious exactions the Pcs;
Office. As POstmasters are permitted to frans
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 VIE
may incline to aid US, as early as will suit their
convenience. Address
GREELEY 4 McELRATH,
Tribune Office,
Corner of SPruce-street. opposite the City Hal.