Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-03-26
FARMERS LIBRARY.


Prospectus of the Farmers Library, and Montsly l
Journal of Agriculture. JOHN 5. SKINNER Edi.
tor None can well have studied the true sources
of National welfare, without perceiving the na,u
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
nufactures, Commerce and Agriculture The %. 1
licy which strikes at the prosperity OF the Manu.
featuring consumer must damage the Agricultural
producer. and neither can be injuriously affected
without detriment TO the Merchant, at once con-
sumner and carrier for both. As, however, the eIe
ments of manufacturing and commercial industry
must be derived chiefly from the soil, is If 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! ! Ye:
it has not been until comparatively late perol /
in Europe and still later in America, that the pub
lie mind has been made properly sensible of tie
necessity of science to Agriculture, and so to rc
spect Farming as essentially ali intellectual and
/ dignified pursuit-one which should imply lur is
| followers high mental cultivation and varIoas
attainments. Happily, however, educated yourg
men are now betaking themselves to Farming ~
business, which, like the learned professions,
has its own principles and will have IFS Eteratufe
! and truly it may be asked what subject has lately
/ gwen rise to memoirs and works more profourd
and instructive, or been fruitful of more ineres:
|
culture! Who, among modern Llterati, enluY
more enviable distinction than Ltebig and Joh,.
| ston and BOuSSingduLt and Candetiee The taste
for Agricultural Literature our country, thank,
TO the able journals that encourage it, keeps pare
with its progress in Europe. The more fully 10
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
to publish on the first day of July, and mon;lv
thereafter, the Farmers Library and Monlhlg
Journal of Agriculture, to be edited by JoHy ;
SKINNER late Assistant Postmaster General anl
founder of the first Agricultural periodical pub
lished in this country.
Far from being designed or in any way calc1-
lated to affect injurously the circulation of exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation
they may supply the Farmers table with lighter
! and more agreeable relreshnent, willie IN the Ii
brary he may may find more solid as ii will be
more costly food.
Each number will consist of two distinct paris,
| viz. -
l. 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 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. no;
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 NAV be
obscure to American readers, 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
e Science, and developing the rich treasures which
Chemistry, Geology. and Mechanics, have yielded
and may yield to Tighten the labors and swell the
4 harvests of the intelligent husbandman. The
It work will be so arranged that the Farmer'ssLbra-
t ry may be bound up by itself, forming a mani
n moth volume of 600 pages at the end of each year
= or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paratelv.
a II The Monthly Journal of Agriculture will
n likewise contain about so pages per month anI
e will comprise, |. Foreign: Selections from the
o higher class of British, French AMI German -
; riodicals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
|. from new books which may not be published IN
n the Library, &c. dc. 2. American Editorials.
IS communicated and selected accounts OF exper-
ments, improved processes, discoveries IN Agr-
culture, new implements, &c. In this department
IS alone will ours resemble any American work eve'
IS yet published /, can hardly be necessary TO all
a that Political, Economic, or other contToveTe
IS doctrine, will be inculcated through this magazine
n Its price will be Five Dollars year in advance
e for two royal octave volumes of 600 pages ea,t
d Each number of the Library will be illustrate
: by numerous engravings, printed on type ohtare
d expressly for this work, and on good paper.
d whole got up as such work should be. liEtns
e not prove the best well as the ampest and maS
1t comprehensive Agricultural work ever pu5llshe
- in this country, the fault shall not rest VIII 81.
Is publishers, and we it will not fall SIM.
:. for want of industry or devotion in the Edr7'
n The low and definite rate of postage chareea't
on such periodical after the 1st OF July-ss'
six to eight cents numbeI-will enable mauy 3
10 take il who would otherwise have been rerejs
% by the heavy and capricious exactions ofthe Pos
n Office. AS Postmas.ers are permitted 10 fran
/ money letters TO publishers until that period, an
/ we wish to print only so many copies as NAV %
O. wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all VIII
Il may incline to aid us, early as will suit the
:, convenience Address
= GREELEY d McELRATH,
4 Tribune Office.
Il Corner of Spruce street, opposite the City Ha
New York July 81 I645