Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-07-16
FARMERS, LIBRARY.


Prospectus of The Farmers Library and Monthly
Journal of Agriculture john S. SKINNER, Edi-
tor. None well have studied the true sources
of National welfare, without perceiving the natu-
raj and friendly connexion existing between Ma
nutactufes. Commerce and Agriculture. The po-
licy which strikes at the prosperity of the Manu.
featuring consumer, must damage the Agricultural
producer, and neither can be injuriously affected
without detriment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumer and carlier for both. As, however, the eie-
mens OF 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 the
most enlightened industry make available! Yet
it mas been until comparatively a late period
IN Europe and still later in America that tile 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 and
dlgnihcd pursuit-one which should imply for its
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 It's own principles and will have its literature
and truly 1t may be asked what subject has lately
given rise TO memoirs and works more profound
and instructive, or been fruitful of more interest
ing results OF scientific investigation, than Agri-
more enviable distinction than LieJig and John
st0a, and B0ussiRgGuH and C0ndoLe 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
10 publish on the first day Of July, and monthly
thereafter, the Farmers Library and M0nthlY
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 anv wav calcu-
lated 10 affect injurously the circulation of exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation,
they may supply the Farmers table with lighter
and more agreeable refreshment, while 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. -
|. The Farmers Li5rarY in which will be 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 give
for two or three dollars the choicest European
treatises and researches in Agriculture, costing
ten times as much in the original editions, not
easily obtained at any price, and virtually out of
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 be
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, expor-
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 so arranged that the Farmers Libra
ry may be bound up by ITSELF forming a man.
moth volume of 600 pages at the end of each year;
each work contained therein may be bound Sc
parately.
IL. THE Monthly Journal of Agriculture will
likewise contain about so pages per month, AMI
will comprise, l. Foreign: Selections from the
higher class of British, French and German pc
rlodicals 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
nients, improved processes, discoveries IN Agri-
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 controverted
doctrine, will be inculcated 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 it does
not prove the best well as the amplest and most
comprehensive Agricultural work ever published
IN this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and we sure it will not fall short
for want of industry or devotion in the Editor
The low and definite rate of postage chargeabe
on such periodical after the lst 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 oflhe 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
we respectfully solicit orders from all who
may incline to aid us, as early as will suit their
Address
GREELEY d McELRATH,
Tribune Office.
Corner OF SPruce-street. opposite the City Hall;