Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-01-15
FARMERS LIBRARY.

PROSPECTUS OF LHS Il UTNtcT J<infUFN HHd MOHibI,
Journal of Agriculture. john >. SKINNER. Ed
tor. None can we'll have studied the true soprca,
of National welfare, without perceiving the main,
raj and friendly connexion existing between n,
nufactufes. Commerce and Agriculture. The mn
licy which strikes at the prosperity of the Mann.
featuring consumer, must damage the AGricul,ur,I
producer, and neither can be inuriously affected
without detriment to the Merchant, at once con.
sumer and carrier for both AS, however the eIp
ments of manufacturing and commercial Industry
must be derived chiefly from the soil, is not H.,
obvious interest OF all other classes that the opc
which gives to all their employment and subsis,
ence, should oe encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science confer and tho
most enlightened industry make available Yes
il has mol been until comparatively late period
in Europe, and still later in America, that the pull
| lie mind has been made properly sensible of IL.
necessity OF science to Agriculture, and so To r.,
spect Farming as essentially an intellectual ari
dignifed pursut-one which should imply for j.,
! followers high mental cultivation and varnrs
attainments. Happily however. educated youn,.
men are now betakng themselves to Farming as
a business, which, like the learned profession,
has its own principles and will have its literature
and truly it may be asked what subject has ateI,
/ gwen rise to memoirs and works more profouuii
and Instructive or been fruitful OF more ineresl-
ing results OF scientific investigation than Ac5.
Cuitult :. "iIO, diiOBS bltIdll. eHiur
more enviable distinction than Liebig and Joh..
ston, and BouSSingduH and Cand0lle The taste
! for Agricultural Literature in our country tbarf,
/ to the able journals that encourage it. keeps pac.
with lis progress in Europe. The more fully tn
meet the demand thus created, we have decided
to publish on the first day of July, and monthly
! thereafter. the Farmers Library and Moa,hiy
Journal Of agriculture, to be edited by JOIN ;:
SKINNER, late Assistant Postmaster General ami
/ tOundpr Of tho first Aurfcuf4ra1
/ lished in this country.
! Far from being designed or in any way calcu-
lated TO affect lnuriously 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 ii will 10
more costly food.
! Each number will consist of two distinct parts
/ viz. -
! |. The Fdr7aers' Li5rayy. in which will De pub
( lished continuously the best Standard Works on
Agriculture, embracing those which. by their cost
or tile language IN which they are written, would
otherwise seem beyond the reach Of nearly all
/ American Farmers In this wav we shall give
/ for two or three dollars the choicest Europpan
treatises and researches in Agriculture. costing
ten times as much In the original editions not
easily obtained at any price, and virtually ont pf
the reach of men who live by following the plough
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| by notes from the Editor, explaining what NAV TO
obscure 10 American readers or calculated to mis-
! lead the beginning in Farming, owing to diferen-
| ces of Soil, Climate, &c. The works published
+ in the Library will form complete series expl0r-
/ ing and exhibiting the whole field of Natural
/ Science, and developing the rich treasures which
Chemistry, Geology and Mechanics, have yielded
and may yield 10 tighten the labors and swell the
! haryests 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 600 pages at the end OF each year:
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
paratelv.
/ III TIE Monthly Journal of Agriculture will
likewise contain about so pages per month, ami
will comprise, /. Foreign: Selections from the
/ higher class of British, French and German pc
riodicals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
+ from new books which may not be Published in
the Library, &c. d C. 2. american Editorials.
communicated and selected accounts of expert
mentS improved processes, discoveries IN AgrI-
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 controverted
doctrine. will be incucated through this magazine.
It's price will be Five Dollars year in advance
for two royal octave volumes of GOO 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-ths
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
iii this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and are sure ii will not tall 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 Juy-say
six to eight cents a number-will enable many 10
take it who would otherwise have been repelled
by the heavy and capricious exactions the Post
Office. AS Postmasters are permitted 10 frank
money letters to publishers until that period, and
as we wish to print only 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 + McELRATH
Tribune Office.
Corner of Spruce street. opposite the City Hall.
New York, July 81, lS45