Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-06-18
FARMERS LIBRARY.

Prospectus Of The farmers Library, and M0nthfY&
Journal of Agriculture. JOHN :. SKINN6R Ed.
tor None can well have studied the true sources
OF National welfare, without percelying the nat1-
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma.
nufactufes. Commerce and Agriculture. The po-
Icy which strikes at the prosperity OF the Manu-
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be injuriously affected4
without detriment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumer and carrier for both. AS, however, the eleA
ments of manufacturing and commercial industr
must be derived chiefly from the soil, is it not thtt
obvious interest of all other classes that the on
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
II has noi 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 an1
dienificd pursuit-one which should imply for is
followers high mental cultivation and various
attainments. Happily, however, educated young
men are now betaking themselves to Farming, as
business. which, like the learned professions,
has its principles and will have its literature
and truly il may be asked what subject has latelY
gwen rise to memoirs and works more profound
and instructive. been fruitful of more interest
ing results of scientific investigation, than Agr-
culture Who. among modern Literaii enjoy
more envable distinction than Liebig and John
stan, and B0uSsingauh and CandolLei 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
to publish on the first day of July, and monthly
thereafter, the farmers Library and Monthly
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 calcI-
lated to affect injuriously 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 it will be
more costly food.
Each number will consist of two distinct parts
viz -
|. TIE Farmers Library, in which will lie pub
llShed continuously the best STANDARD WORDS 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 three dollars the choicest European
treatises and researches in Agriculture. costing
ten times much in the original editions,
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out ot
the reach Of men who live by following the plough
In the Farmers Library they will be accompanied i
obscure to American readers, or calculated to mis-
lead the beginning in Farming, owing to differen-t
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 yielded
and may yield to tighten the labors and swell the
harvests of the intelligent husbandman. The
work will be arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by ITSELF forming MAN.
moth volume OF 500 pages at the end of each year;
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paratelY.
H. The 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
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
nents, improved processes, discoveries IN A gri-
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, 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 engravings, printed on type obtained
expressly for this work, and on good paper-the
whole got up as such work should be. If does
not prove the best we'll 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 chargeable
on such periodical after the Ist Of July-say
six to eight cents number--will enable many to
take it who would otherwise have been repelled
by the heavy and capricious exactions ofthe 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 may be
wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all who
may incline to aid US, as early as will suit their
convenience. Address
GREELEY d McELRATH,
Tribune Office,
Corner of Spruce street, opposite the City Hall.
New York, July 81, ls45