Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-11-17
PROSPECTUS
bs $50 a7s OF THE t.4. e,t,.
FNt rrt KS PLANTR.
ESQ : Q sshAboRs"( Editors.

Ii will be our aim to conduct this pnb.
llcatlon IN manner acceptable both to
the farmer and pl'nter, and tn r,ndcr it
valua'l" to the tilers Of the soil through
outthe South. The paper owes it's
oigin to the suggestion of the Pen lie.
ton Farmers Society, the oldest institu.
ton of ats kin Tin the State, embracing
gentlemen wall known as successful pl,n.
ters, and distinguished for inventions and
improvements they have nude in imple-
ments of hu<bandry. We shall ha G
important mid from this source. and
promise to make our paper vehicle to
disseminate the results IF the experience
of members of this Association.
We have secured, as contributors,
from every quarter of this and the
neighho ing States, planters of skill in
the fart and mystery" of farming; and
congratulate ourselves TINT thus we mav
become an exchange medium of the df-
fercnt modes of husbnndry practi, ed in
diffe ent parts Of the country, and shall
he enabled to plNce before the ag icul.u.
raj community the opinions and thco les
of the most scien ific men of the South.
We sh.h acqa;s;nt cur re ders with the
results Of an extensive train of cxpc,i-
ments conducted under onr own supe in.
tendence. and shall give agricultural
chemistry pronineh: place in our col
umns. so MS to ennble those who wish il
To determine qu Ii les of soil, und their
fl ne 's 70" any particular crop.
We sh II en1elvo' to bring within the
scope Of our attention every subject of
inte e to the husbandman--things small
as well as g~ent--nnd to make our paper
profitable alike to the large planter and
the small fmmer.
We shall make our pages interesting
TO the mech,nc, from the attention
given to the construction of farming
utensils.
We aspire to place the Farmer and
Planter among the most de,inhle ag
cultural publications. of the dry: and to
this end we pledge all our enc gies
If the South would keep p ce with
'hc advancement in ag iculturll science
md eniov he full sha'e of poSpe ily,
info mrlionupon the subject of husband :
" must be moe wi,Iely oiffused. -
Strange as it would seem, while there
IRE scores of poli'icnl p,pers in this
State, the is not a single journal devo-
ted TO that industrial pursuit by which
man md be,st must live, if live atall.
From these considerations, and at the
cmnest solicitation of the Pendleton
farmers Society. under whose auspices
we may be regarded. we are induced 10
tn e upon ourselves the conduct'of the
Farmer nnd Plntcr; and, from the en-
coulTgcment al eady received, we aic
s'lnpuine ofrendeiirg it n popular paper
We ask for an ac i've cooperation of
all who are favorable to the enterp iSe in
p"ocu ing subSc iacrs, and fowarding &c
us their rnames as en'lv as posi- le.
The Farmer and Planter, consisting of
sixteen royal quu"to pages, will be pub
li@hed monthly, at Pendle'on, S. c., at
81 per annum; six copies for SIS; twenty
Fl e copies 500; one hundred copies
S75--payable on tn receipt of the fl st
number. t iH Ja #.
TIE volum will commence with the
ve'r 1850. ~
Communications should be addressed
SEABORN & GILMAN,
Eds. Farmer and Planter.
Pendleton, s. G., Oct ~, 1910.