Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-11-10
PROSPECTUS
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
AND PLANTER
GEo. SEABoRN,

J
1t will be our aim to conduct this pub
!icaticn II 2 manner acceptable beth to
the farmer and planter, and to render it
valuable to tho tillers of the soil through
out the South. The paper owes it's
origin to the suggestion of the Pendle-
ton Farmers Society," the Oldest institu-
ton of its kind in the State, embracing,
gentlemen well known as successful plan.
ters, and distinguished for inventions and
improvements they have made in imple-
ments of husbandry. We shall ha e
important aid from this source, and
promise to make our paper vehicle to
disseminate the results of the experience
of members of this Association.
We have secured, as contributors,
from every quarter of this and the
neighboring States, planters of skill in
the Fart and mystery" of farming; and
congratulate ourselves that thus we may
become an exchange medium of the diff
ferent modes of husbandry practised in
different parts of the country, and shall
be enabled to place before the aglicultu-
raj community the opinions and theories
OF the most scientific men of the South.
We shall acquaint our readers with the
results of an extensive train of expert
ments conducted under onr own superin-
tendence, and shall give agricultural
chemistrya n prominent place in our col
umns, so as to enable those who wish it
to determine qualities of soil, and their
fitness for any particular crop,
We shall endeavor to bring within the
scope of our attention every subject of
interest to the husbandman things small
as well as great--and to make our paper
profitable alike to the large planter and
the small farmer.
We shall make our pages interesting
to the mechanic, from the attention
given to the construction of farming
utensils.
We aspire to place the Farmer and
Planter among the most desirable agri-
cultural publications of the day; and to
this end we pledge all our energies.
If the South would keep pace with
the advancement in agricultural science
and enjoy her full share of prosperity,
information upon the subject of husband
ry must be more widely diffused.--
Strange as it would seem, while there
are scores of political papers in this
State, there is not single Journal devo-
ted to that industrial pursuit by which
man and beast must live, if live at all.
From these considerations, and at the
earnest solicitation of the Pcndleton
Fani!er's Society, under whose auspices
we may be regarded, we are induced TO
take upon ourselves the conduct of :he
Farmer and Planter; and, from the en-
eouragement already received, we are
sanguine ofrendeing it a aporuiar paper.
We ask FOR on active cooperation of
all who are favorable to the enterprise in
procuring subscribers, and fowarding 10
us theirnames as early as possible
The Farmer and Planter, consisting of
sixteen royal quurto pages, will be pub,
lished monthly, at Pendleton, s, O., at
81 per annup; six copies for s5; twenty
FIVE copies $40; one hundred copies
$75--payable on the receipt of the FIRST
number.
/ The volume viii commence with The
year 1850.
Communications should be addressed
to iu
q SEABORN & GILMAN,
Eds. Farmerand Planter.
Pendleton, s. c., Oct. II, 1910,