Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-05-28
FARMERS LIBRARY

journal Of Agriculture. JOHN 5. SkrYN,p Fdy
tor. None can well have studied the true s,',rcn.
oil National welfare, without perceivnq the na,,,
raj and friendly connexon existing between M
nufactures, Commerce and Agriculture. The no
Icy which strikes at the prosperity of the Manu-
featuring consumer, must damage the Aprjcul,nr,,
producer, and neither can be inuriously ahactod
without detriment to the Merchant, at once CON
sumer and ca1er for both. As, however, the ele.
menis OF manufacturing and commercial industry
must be derived chiefly from the SOIL is il not the
obvious interest oil all other classes that the ono
which gives to all their employment and subsst-
ence, should De encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened industry make availahle1 Yer
1t 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
Gignifed pursult-one which should imply for jts
followers high mental cultivation and varjors
atialnmens. Happily, however, educated vounr
men are now betakng themselves to Farming. as
business, which, like the learned professions.
has Its own principles and will have its literature
and truly 1t 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 Agri-
culture Who, among modern Literati enioy
more enviable distinction than LieJig and John
ston, and BOuSsingduH and Cdnd0LIe? The taste
for Agricultural Literature in our country, thanks
to the able journals that encourage it, keeps pace
with It's progress in Europe. The more fully to
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
to publish on the first day of July, and monthly
thereafter, the Farmers Library and MoathIy
Journal of Agriculture, to be edited by JOIN S
SKINNER, late Assistant Postmaster General and
founder of the first Agricultural periodical pub
llshed in this country.
Far from being designed or in any way calcu-
lated TO affect nuriously 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 solid : il will he
more costly food
Each number will consist of two dis,nc, parts,
viz -
|. 1he Farmers Library, in which will be pub
ilshed continuously the best Standard Works ON
Agriculture, embracing those which, by their cost
orthe 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 out of
the reach OF men who live by following the plough
In the Farmers Library they will be accompanied
10y notes from the Editor, explaining what may be
obscure to American readers, or calculated to mis-
lead the beginning in Farming, owing to dfferen-
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 Welded
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 be bound up 10y itself, forming man.
moth volume of 600 pages at the end of each year;
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
parately.
ii Tie Monthly Journal Of agriculture will
likewise contain about so pages per month, and
will comprise, |. Foreign: Selections from the
higher class of British, French and German pc
rlodlcals 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 to add
that no Political, Economic, or other controverted
doctrine, will be nculcated through this magazine
Its 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 engravngs, 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 well as the amplest and most
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
L he low and definite rate of postage chargeable
on such periodical after the ls Of July-sav
SIX to eight cents a numbeI-wll enable MANY to
lake it who would otherwise have been repelled
by the heavy and capricious exactions fthe 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 NAV be
wanted, respectfully solicit orders from all who
nay incline to aid US, early as will suit their
Address
GREELEY d MELRATH,
-. Tribune Office,
Corner of Spruce street, opposite the City Hall.