Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-17
The Weekly Intelligencer.

The Weekly Intelligencer.
We issue to-day, our first number of the WEEK
LY IsTELLicEScER, and our country subscribers,
who have heretofore received the DAILY, will
henceforth receive the WEEKLY regularly. We
have not yet decided on the day on which the
Weekly will regularly be issued, as we wish to ar
range the issue so that it will accommodate the
greatest number of our country subscribers, by
meeting the country mails. AS we have had but
little opportunity, owing to pressing duties since
the first issue Of our paper to address ourselves to
the citizens of the country it may not be ill timed,
in issuing this, the first number of our Weekly, TO
address to you few suggestions upon the charac-
ter and design of our enterprise We have been
induced to take charge of the Editorial Depart
ment of this paper, (for we have no other connec-
ton with it, at the solicitation of various citizens,
who in common with us, entertained the opinion
that ample opportunity existed for the formation
of new paper, which should embrace a more ex-
tended range of objects than Weeklies heretofore
in existence, and by presenting wider range of
subjects to the consideration of its readers, accom-
odate in every respect, the wants of the reading
public. Though we are not over sangune as to
the success of our efforts, and though ale well
aware of the difficulties attendant upon such an
undertaking, still we have been induced to make
the attempt, and the liberal encouragement which
we have thus far received. affords us every induce
ment to strive to deserve its continuance The
elements which should be sought for in order to
succeed well in country paper, are much more
easily enumerated than attained. 1t should be
one great and leading object of country paper,
to point out improvements and discoveries in the
Art of Farming, for while it is true that the coun
uynan is the best farmer" it is no less true that
the countryman can often be improved. and have
his labors lessened and advantageously directed by
the suggestions and discoveries of others, although
they may not be practical farmers. Thus the Che
mist, who may not know on which side plough
throws the sod may yet materially aid and advance
the interests of the Farmer, by teaching him the
powers and composition of manures, by analizing
his soil, and showing in what it is deficient, and
how to remedy the excess defects of particular
elements. He can also show to the Farmer the
best method of neutralizing bad agents and fertil
izing good ones. He can also, by the simplest pro-
cess of chemical analysis, inform him of the exact
amount of nutriment contained in given product
of the SOIL and also how and which of the various
cereals exhausts to the greatest the fertility
of the soil, while the Farmer can never learn these
important facts with certainty, though he may,
from long observation and experience, approximate
thereto. The Improvements daily making in the
construction and adaptation of labor saving ma
chimes. necessariay needed by the farming public,
TO their wants, should also constitute an important
item in paper designed for country circulation.
The various imporatons of stock of various kinds,
the new breeds daily heralded into notice. and the
most economical and approved methods of raising
and disposing Of them, will also constitute de-
partment in a country paper worthy of the Far
mer's attention. The avocation of the Husband
man has heretofore been of art merely, rather
than OF art and science combined A new era is
approaching IN the history of the Agricultural in
terests Of the country The increased facilities for
reaching the Eastern markets, and the inc reased
value of the lands in this vicinity, render it abso-
lutey certain that change must take place in the
farming habits of our citizens. 1t will no longer
be the question, how much land can cultivate!
but how much can produce from given quanti-
y OF landl Science must now be called in to lend
her helping hand, in increasing and multiplying
the productions of the soil, SO that given value
Of land shall produce as much as given value
did when lands were worth only half as much per
acre. In the march of improvement, the man who
would farm successfully, must farm scientifically,
in other words, he must combine his previous art,
or active industry, with that intimate knowledge Of
the principles Of governing and directing his la
bors, which alone, in future, must ensure success.
The good Farmer must be man of science and of
art. While we do not pretend to be able of our
selves to afford much light upon these subjects,
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with the details of faming,) yet We hope by means
of contributors who are both scientific and practi-
cal, and by judicious selections from the leading
Agricultural periodicals. of the day, materially to
eontribvte to the wants of our country readers,
and il we cannot teach, atleast putthem upon the
enquiry. Besides this, country paper should con-
tain all the leading elements of Daily citypaper.
The farming interest is no less vitality connected
with the political questions of the country than is
that OF the city, SO that in fact, country paper
should contain all that city Daily does and more.
II should be well provided in its Literary depart
ent, so as to adapt it to the wants of the young,
into whose hands it may come. 1t is frequently
the case, that country weekly paper, is the only
paper taken by the countryman, and as it islooked
to for almost every thing, whether News, Improve
ments Literature, or Politics, it must exert quite
an influence on his rising family Hence, it should
be arranged with pointed care for the moral and
intellectual improvement of the young, and only
such articles Of literature should be admitted into
it, columns as will tend to elevate the taste,
pand the intellect, and increase the substantial in
formation of the young. There are but few of
the departments properly comprehended in the per-
view of Weekly paper. All items of general in
terest, of general improvement markets, stocks,
exchange list &c &c. in fine. all information. of