Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-12-01
PROSPECTUS
OF TIE
FARMER AND IL AMIR
gEG, ssADons, ! Editors.


twill beour aim to conduct this pub.
licatLon in manner acceptable both to
the farmer and planter, and to render it
valuable to the tillers of the soil through
out the South. The paper owes its
origin to the suggestion of the Pendle-
ton Farmers Society, the Oldest institu.
ton of IT'S kind in the State, embracing
gentlemen well known as successful plan,
ters, and distinguished for inventions and
improvements they have made in implc.
mcnts of husbandry. We shalt ho G
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
nelghboring States. planters of skill in
the "art and mystery" of farming; and
congratulate ourselves that thus we NAV
become an exchange medium of the diff
ferent modes of husbandry practiscd in
different parts of the country, and shall
be enabled to place before the ag,icultu,
raj commum,y 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 experi-
ments conducted under onr own superin.
tendence, and shall give agricultural
chemistrya prominent place in our col
umns, SO as to enable those who wish it
to determine qualities of soil, and their
htneSs for any particular crop.
We shall endeavor to bring within the
scope of our attention every subject of
interest to the husbandnan-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 apri
cultural publications of the day; and to
this end we pledge all our energies.
Ii the South would keep pace with
the advancement in agricultural science
and enjoy her full share of prosperity,
informationupo the subject of husband
ry must be more widely difused.-
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 Pendleton
Farmers Society. under VIII auspices
we may be regarded, we are duced to
take upon ourselves the conduct of the
Farmer and Planter; and, from the en-
couragement already received, we are
sanguine ofrendering it popular paper
We ask for an active cooperation of
all who are favorable to the enterprise in
procuring subscribers, and forwarding 10
us their names as early as possible.
The Farmer and Planter, consisting of
sixteen royal quurto pages, will be pub
llshed monthly, at Pendleton, S. c., at
81 per annum; six copies for SIS; twenty
five copies $40; one hundred copies
s75--payable on the receipt of the first
number.
The volume will commence with the
year 1850.
Communications should be addressed
sEABORN & GILMAN,
Eds. Farmer and Planter.
Pendleton, S. c., Oct. II, l849.