Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-22
NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

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Philadelphia. Geo. b. Ziebsr Co. agents. The principal
booksellers and news agents throughout the Union"
The Patriarch OF Rural Economy amongst US
as he unqueshonably is--the long and well desery-
ing SKINNER, who more than thirty years ago, when
Tillage and its auxiliary arts had Though almost
our sole industry scarcely attempted to take me-
thod and be science, led the way 10 them, and
founded their improvement, by the establishment
of our earliest Agricultural Journal the worthy fa-
her Of so many excellent publications Of the same
sort that are now benefting every part of the
country, is once more before US: he Of the {" Ame-
rican Farmer" the " Turf Register" and lately of
the Farmers Library, now transformed into the
periodical before us, and transferred, as his own
property, from the Tribune Office and its propretors
to Philadelphia and the protection Of its liberal and
enlightened Citizens and "Society for promoting
| Agriculture" How change much involving the
fortunes of one whom it should be the Of every
intelligent American farmer TO reward for his
long and strenuous services has come about, we
cannot better tell than in article on " the Plough,
the Loom, and the Anvil which we will borrow
from the Baltimore American -
"We have learned enough Of the views and purposes Of
this work warrant in recommending TO the pat
ronage Of ALL whether practical farmers followers Of other
pursuits Of American industry.
Recent and overcoming revulsions the politics and
trade Of Europe leading TO disastrous vcudes and depres
sion in the value of principal staples, have suggested
Elections favorable to the reception OF truth throughout
country regards the duty Of the American Government
give encouragement american iab the means,
after ALL of securing steady and remuneatng market for
American produce We understand that the Plough, the
LOOM and the An has already the hearty support and APP
probation of many the principal friends Of domestic indus
try in Massachusetts,, New York, and Pennsylvania, all Of
whom deem highly important make this effort, by the
If for
of The landed interest," to spread the conviction he him
self entertain of the importance american ogricuu-
rists above all other classes, that tariff should be
national and permanent not party tariff; and which
shall hold out adequate encouragement to all the industrial
pursuits for which various climate and extended country
present sufficient and suitable Considering his
continued and earnest abos raise into higher and
user appreciation the and importance of agriculture
and improve the animals and implements employed in the
practice Of il, cheeruly give place Mr.. SINNERS own
prospectus of his future labors and objects and sincerely
wish him all the which his well known industry
not fail to command hereafter as heretofore
"The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture
has seems, in very and hosptabe manner
solved unanimously welcome the editor Of the Plough the
LOOM and The Anvil that city, and has rendered him for
his editorial accommodation the free Of It's library and
spacious rooms in Third street.
The number before lacks nothing that could be desr
ed in the way of excellence in paper and typography and
glad learn that appears under auspices indicating
extraordinary which, repeat, sincerely hope
may be fully realized"
The particular views which the altered state of
industrial relations to other countries has sug-
gested to Mr.. Skinner and to the many influential
friends who have lent him not only their counsel,
but their g aid and comfort" in his new design,
will be found succinctly but clearly set forth in his
Prospectus; while they are elucidated and enforc-
ed yet more strongly in the leading article of this
first number of the new series of his Journal He
has last perceived that the advancement of those
agricultural improvements of which his own labors
have been so much the means, wide and marked as
it is, has only been effecmal under certain condi-
tions which conditions scarcely exist, except
where there has been concentration of popula-
tion and Of capital, with, of course the resulting
opportunity of multiplication and distribution |
of pursuits, and that same combination oil
labor Which is weH knocn 10 be the oniu means of
carrying The other industrial arts 10 perfection
but mhich (though equally necessary there) has
been heretofore overlooked indispensable to the
giring equal perfection, such as it should have,
TO IWage-itself but manufacture, and merely |
differing from the rest in that il has the EARTH the
sun, the seasons, and vegetable life for its machines
and powers. lnferring, then, the concentration of
population and the combination of labor usually |
resulting from it as the known conditions upon
which alone manufactures can flourish, he now |
urges what is obviously true) that our agricul-
ture inevitably comes under the same law-must,
as to its more perfect practice, such as alone can
lift il into the rank of scientific arts derive its ne
cessary from the same state of things as
gives life, vigor and skill 10 every other branch of
national industry and ingenuity. One Of the lead
ing objects Of his Journal under its new form, will
therefore be to illustrate for the benefit of all the
industrious pursuits, this their mutual dependency,
and especially that OF. systematic, scientific hus-
bsndry, upon the formation Of manufacturing po-
pulaton in its midst.
Every body knows, indeed, the prodigious ad-
vantage, to the producer of food, Of having close
TO him its consumer. In the main articles OF food
for instance, breadstuffs and butchers meat, the
profit Of production is always inversely as the dis
lance Of the consumer--the expense that is to say,
of getting ones corn or meat TO market. Hence |
lands Of equal fertility valuable in proportion
as a city or other body Of population not engaged |
in producing food is near them. OF course it is |
only the greater proftableness Of lands near city
which makes them dearer: for the diminished la |
Dor Of transportation is so much added to the pro-
ducer's gains. Now of the greater articles of sus-
tenance, the finer grains ony-those in which there
is least bulk in proportion TO the nourishment con-
tanned, as wheat--w bear much cost of transport
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