Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-07-30
FARMERS LIBRARY

Prospectus of the Farmers Library, and Monfhiy
Journal Of Agriculture. JOHN 5. SKINNER Edi.
tor None can well have studied the true sources
OF National welfare, without perceiying the natu-
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
uutactufes. Commerce and Agriculture. The DO.
licy which strikes at the prosperity of the Manu-
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be iniuriously affected
without deriment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumner and carrier for both As, however, the ele-
ments of manufacturing and commercial industry
must be derived chiefly from the soil, is il not the
obvious interest OF all other classes that the one
which gives to all their employment and subsisl.
ence, should oe encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened industry make available Yet
it has nol been until comparatively late period
in Europe, and still later in America, that the pua
lie mind has been made properly sensible OF The
necessity of science to Agriculture, and so 20 re-
spect Farming as essentially an intellectual aad
Gignified pursut-one which should imply fer lis
followers high mental cultivation and varloas
attainmen,s. Happily, however, educated young
men now betaking themselves TO Farming, as
business, which, like the learned professions,
has It's principles and will have its literature :,
and truly it may be asked what subject has laelyI
gwen rise to memoirs and works more profound
and instructive, or been fruitful of more interest
ing results of scientific investigation than Agr
culture Who, among modern Literati, enjoy
more enviabe distinction than Liebig and John
ston, and B0ussingauH and Candoie! 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 10
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 4 Aericulture, to be edited by JoHS 5
SKINNER, late Assistant Postmaster General ard
founder of the first Agricultural periodical pub
lished in this country
Far from being designed or in any way caIcu-
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 Ll-
brary he may may find more solid as il will be
more costly food.
Each number will consist of two distinct parts,
viz. -
|. The Farmers Library, in which will be pub
llshed continuously the best Standard iFgrks on
Agriculture, embracing those which, by their COS,
or the language in which they are written woui
otherwise seem beyond the reach Of nearly all
American Farmers In this way we shall give
for two or three dollars the choicest European
treatlseS and researches III Agriculture, costing
ten times much in the original editions. not
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out #
the reach of men who live By following the plOugh.A
In the Farmers Library they will be accompanied
by notes from the Editor, explaining what may bgf
obscure to American readers or calculated to mis- &
lead the beginning in Farming, owing to differeu-
ces of Soil, Climate, &c. The works published
in the Library will form a complete series, exp0c
ing and exhibiting the whole field of NaturaI
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 50 arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by itself, forming a NAM
moth volume of 600 pages at the end of each year
or each work contained therein may be bound Sc
parately.
IL The Monthly Journal Of Agriculture will }
likewise contain about so pages per month, an
will comprise, /. Foreign: Selections from tie
higher class Of British, French and German Pc
riodicas devoted to Agriculture, with extracrI
from new books which may not be published d
the Library, &C. dc. 2. american: Editorials
communicated and selected accounts Of expert
Hents, improved processes, discoveries IN Agrf
culture, new implements. &C. In this deparmer
alone will ours resemble any American work eve
yet published. 1t can hardly be necessary to adj
that no Political, Economic, or other contrOverls.
doctrine will be inculcated through this magazine
It's price will be Five Dollars a year in advance
Tor two royal octave volumes of 900 pages each
Each number of the Library will be illustrate
oy numerous engravlngs, printed on type obtaine
expressly for this work, and on good paper-th'
whole got up as such a work should be. If itdOa
not prove the best as we'll as the amplest and mos
comprehensive Agricultural work ever publishs
IN this country, the fault shall not rest with III
publishers, and we are sure it will not fall shO.
for want of industry or devotion in the Edito,
The low and definite rate of postage chargeaba
on such periodical after the lst Of July-sa-
SIX to eight cents number-will enable many
take 1t who would otherwise have 'been repeie.
by the heavy and capricious exactions fthe Pos
Office. AS Postmasters are permitted to rani
money letters to publishers until that period, an-
as we wish to print only so many copies as may Be
wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all wh
may incline to aid US, as early as will suit then
Address )
GREELEY d McELRATH, s
Tribune Office.
Corner of Spruce street. opposite the City Hal!
New York July al IS45