Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-03-19
FARMERS LIBRARY.

ProsDectus of the Farmers Library and Monthly
Journal of Agriculture. JOHN 5 SKINNER, Edi-
tor None can well have studied the true sources
of National welfare, without perceiving the natu-
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 affected
without detrment to the Merchant, at once con-
sumer 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 10 all their employment and subsist-
ence should 0e encouraged and benefited with
every advantage that science can confer and the
most enlightened industry make available Yet
it has not 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 TO re-
spect Farming as essentially inteectuat and
dig nifed pursut-one which should imply for its
followers high mental cultivation and various
attanments. Happily, however, educated young
men are now betaking themselves 10 Farming, as
a business, which, like the learned professions,
has its own principles and will have its literature
and truly it may be asked what subject has lately
gwen rise to memoirs and works profound
and instructive, or been fruitful of interest
ing results Of scientific investigation, than Agri-
/ culture Who, among modern Llferatl. ENJOY
more enviable distinction than Liebig and Join-
| ston, and B0usSingaut and CandOLle /? 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 5.
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 calcu-
lated to affect njurousy the circulation of exist
ing journals of less price and wider circulation,
they NAV supply the Farmers table with lighter
and more agreeable refreshment Willie IN the Ii
brary he may may find solid as j; will be
more costly food.
| Each number will consist OF TWO distinct parts,
! viz. =
l. The Farmers Library, 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 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 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 SO 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.
II. The Monthly Journal Of Agriculture will
likewise contain about 80 pages per month, aud
will comprise, l. Foreign: Selections from the
D higher class of British French and German pc
riodcals devoted to Agriculture, with extracts
: from new books which may not be published In
D the Library, &c. dc. 2. American Editorials.
communicated and selected accounts of expert
ments, improved processes, discoveries IN Agri-
culture new implements. &c. In this department
S alone will ours resemble any American work ever
vet published. 1t can hardly be necessary TO add
a that no POLITICAL Economic, or other controverted
S doctrine, will be incucated through this magazine
r Its price will be Five Dollars year in advance
g 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. Ii il does
e not prove the best we'll the ampest and most
t comprehensive Agricultural work ever pubs!Iei
in this country, the fault shall not rest with the
publishers, and sure it will not fall short
for want of industry or devotion in the Editor.
n The low and definite rate of postage chargeabe
on such a periodical after the lst of July-saT
six to eight cents number--will enable many To-
, take it who would otherwise have been repelle't
o by the heavy and caprcious exactions ofihe Posi-
4 Office. AS Postmasters permitted to frank
money letters to publishers until that period, AMI
as We wish to print only so many copies may be-
;. wanted, we respectfully solicit orders from all who
i may incline to aid us, as early as will suit their
;, convenience. Address
: : GREELEY d. McELRATH,
i Tribune Office.
4 Corner of Spruce street, opposite the City Hall
New York July