Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-01-08
FARMERS LIBRARY

Journal of Agriculture. JOHN ). SKINNER "a
tor. None can well have studied the true sourcn.
of National welfare, without perceiving the main
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
nufactures, Commerce and Agriculture The NJ
licy which strikes at the prosperity of the Mann.
featuring consumer, must damage the Agrcultura,
producer, and neither be injuriousy afrec,oJ
without detriment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumner and carrier for both. AS, however. the ole
ments of manufacturing and commercial iLdus,r,,
must be derived chiefly from the soil, is it not Tho
obvious interest of all other classes that the ono
which gives to all their employment and subsist,
ence should oe encouraged and benefited ,yrL
every advantage that science can confer and th,
most enlightened industry make available! Ye,
it has not been until comparatively late period
in Europe, and still later in America, that the pub
lie mind has been made pruperly sensible of tin
necessity of science to Agriculture, and so to re-
spect Farming as essentially an intellectual ami
dignifed pursuit-one which should imply for IL
followers high mental cultivation and varlo,s
attainments Happily, however educated youne
men are now betaking themselves to Farming. AZ
business, which, like the learned profession,
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 proiound
and instructive, or been fruitful of more interes
ing results Of scientific investigation, than Ann
culture Who, among modern Literat enjoy
more enviable distinction than Liebig and Job,.
stOn, and BousSingdut and CdndoHe? 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 fuliy In
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
to publish on the first day Of July, and monthly
thereafter the Farmers Library and Moaihiy
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 cacu-
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 re(reshment, willie IN the Lii,
brary he may may find more solid as 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 we shall give
for two or three dollars the choicest European
treatises and researches in Agriculture, costing
ten times 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 expor-
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. Tie
work will be arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may he bound up by itself, forming a man.
moth volume of 900 pages at the end of each year;
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paraely.
III 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
riodicas 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
ments, improved processes, discoveries IN Agrl-
culture, new implements, &c. In this department
alone will Ouis resemble any American work ever
yet published. 1t can hardly be necessary TO add
that no Political, Economic or other controvered
doctrine, will be nculcaied 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 good paper-the
whole got up as such work should be. If it does
not prove the best 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 chargeabe
on such periodical after the lst Of Juy-say
six to eight cents a number-will enable MANY To
take it who would otherwise have been repelled
by the heavy and capricious exactions ofthe Post
Office. As Postmasters permitted to frank
money letters to publishers until that PERIOD and
as we wish to print only many copies may be
wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all who
may incline to aid US, as early as will suit their
convenience Address
GREELEY 3 McELRATH,
F Tribune Office,
Corner of SPruce-street, opposite the City Hall.
New York lulv 81 l9t5