Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-02-05
PROSPECTS,
OF A
WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL AND lSCellANe GUS
NEW PAP Err,

n has been urged upon The subscriber that a de
III mand exists IN Virginia for larger agricultural
paper than is afforded in the limits Of the SouTH-
kRs PLANTER, as at present organized He him
self has felt the want as his Subscribers and Com
trbutors have Increased, of elbow room but he
has no idea OF running the r:sk Of publishing pa
per without toIerabIe certainty of receiving a re-
Enumeration for his labor. He therefore lays the
following scheme before the public, to ascertain
whether or not he will be supported in it, He
will publish weekly newspaper in the city OF
Richmond, % by IS inches, which shalt be devoted
to Agriculture and Rural Economy, for Th.ee
Dollars year, payable sixty days after the issue Of
the first number 1t shall be printed on excellent
paper, with new type. II will be handsomely H.
Illustrated with Cuts, and will altogether present the
most respectable appearance.
The larger portion of the paper will be devoted
to the subject of Agriculture, whilst the LITERARY.
COMMERCIAL and Political News of the day will
not be neglected. The last shall be given without
fear, favor. affection comment. IL is believed
that by proper selections and due degree OF labor
all that is needed for general purposes in these de-
partments may be condensed in page of a weekly
paper la short, it will be the object of the Editor
make the paper interesting and instructive to
the Farmers family to the Farmer himself -
For tho FARMER he will endeavor to procure the
results Of well tried experiments; he will seek to
obtain and report tho practices OF the success
full cultivators, considering those the learned
who make the best crops; he will keep his readers
constantly advised Of all the improvements in ag-
ricutural machines and implements, illustrating
the same with cuts, wherever the of the sub
ect demands il. Fol- the FARMERS WIFE, he re.
lies upon the promised assistance of the best house,
wife he kn0ws for collecting good household re-
ceipts and for original directions for the manage
ment OF house, kitchen, garden, poultry yard.
&c. For the FARMERS DAUGHTER, he will seek a
better collection of kumor, wit, and literary matter
than can be found in the Lady's Book OF Grahsm's
Msgazine.
Ii this project succeeds, the subscriber will be
enable TO devote his whole time to the Agricultural
Interest Of the State, and will have opportunity
to lay before bis readers a great deal OF valuable
matter that is excluded from his present limits.
But that he conoeives the object OF Prospectus
be rather explain the scope and design OF the
work than to trumpet forth the merits Of the Edl-
tor, he would say, that he has the vanity to believe
that if he is properly encouraged in this design, he
can furnish an Agricultural and Literary negsps-
per that would be welcome to every hearth in Vir-
gina.
Under no circumstances viii the Monthly Plan
ter be discontinued. Ii the weekly paper goes in
to operation the monthly periodical, in its present
FORM will be inside up of the most valuable agri-
cultural matter in It.
To carry thi. plan into execution, thousand
subscribers will be required to begin with, least
to enable him 10 issue such paper the subscri-
Der wisher present TO the public and as he thinks
the Agricultural Interest OF Virginia is enii,ea to
demand. c. T Bolts.
Feb. S, 1916. Richmond Va.