Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-07-02
FARMERS LIBRARY.


ProsDecfus of The Farmers Library. and Morthiy
Journal of A griculture. JoHN S. SKrNNkR Edl.
tor None can well have studied the true sources
of National welfare, without perceiying the naiu-
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
nufactures. 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 injuriousy affected
without detriment to the Merchant at once con.
sumer and carrier for both. As, however, the cle-
mentS uf manufacturing and commercial Industry
must be derived chiefly from the SOIL is it not the
obvious interest of all other classes that the one
which gives TO all their employment and subsist-
ence, should oe encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and tho
most enlightened industry make available! lei
II has not been until comparatively late peri0d
IN Europe, and still later in America, that the pub
llc mind has been made properly sensible OF tho
necessity of science to Agriculture, and so 10 re-
spect Farming essentially intellectual d"i
dienhed pursuit-one which should imply for -
followers high mental cultivation and varloUs
atialnments Happily, however, educated yourg
men are now betakng themselves 10 Farming, sJ
business. which, like the learned professions,
has It's own principles and will have its literature
and truly II may be ASKED what subject has lately
gwen rise to memoirs and works more profound
ard instructive, been fruitful of more interest,"
ing results OF scientific investigation, than Agri-
culture ! Who, among modern Litcraii, enjoy
more enviabie distinction than Liebig and John
stOn, and B0ussLnSaui and CandoIle The tasjc
for Agricultural Literature in our country thanks
to the able journals that encourage il, 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 monthiy
thereafter the Farmers Library and Monthly
Journal Of Agriculture, to be edited by JoHS 5.
SKINNER, late Assistant Postmaster General and
of tbp 6rSt A ical
lished in this country.
Far from being designed or in anv war cacu-
lated 10 affect injuriousy the circulation of exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation.
they may supply the Farmers table with lgtter
and more agreeable refreshment, while III the Ii
brary he may may find more solid as it vii be
more costly food
Each number viii consist of two distinct parts
viz. -
|. The Farmers Li6rrry, in which will he 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 glye
for two or three dollars the choicest European
treatises and researches in Agriculture, costing
ten times as much in the orr Nlal editions, NOT
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out Vt
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 DO
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, eypor-
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 arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by Itself forming a
moth volume of 600 pages at the end OF each year,
or each work contained therein may bc bound Sc
parately
II TIE Monthly Journal of agriculture will
likewise contain about so pages per month aud
will comprise, L. Foreign: Selections from INC
higher class of British, French and German pc
rlodlcas 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 Agrl-
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 controvered
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 humorous engravings, printed on type obtained
expressly for this work, and on good paper-the
whole got up as such work should be. If it does
not prove the best as well as the ampest and most
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published
in this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and we are sure il 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 1st Of July-say
six to eight cents number-will enable MANY to
take 1t 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, respectfully solicit orders from all who
may incline to aid us, as early as will suit their
convenience. Address
GREELEY q McELRAIW,
Tribune Office.
Corner of Spruce e-street. opposite the City Hall.