Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-08-04

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PUBLIsnKRs' ANNOUNCEMENT:
ELEVENTH VOLUME OF
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST
THE LEADING
Weekly agricultural Paper Of the Country
TIME AMERICAN AGRIcULTURIST, q weekly
y Periodical of sixteen large quarto pages making
an annual volume Of 832 pages Of nearly double the
size of those In the first ten volumes Of the Asrcul
turist.
II is beautifully printed with type cast expressly
for it. and tho best of clear white paper with wide
margin, 50 that the numbers can be easily stitched
or bound together.
A copious Index Is weekly added, which viii be
fully amphcd at tho end Of the year for tho bound
work
Comprehensive in its Character,
Each volume will contain all matter worth record
ing which transpires either at home or abroad and
which can serye to instruct or interest tho Farmer
the Planter, tho Fruit-Growcr, tho Gardener, and
the Stock Breeder; thus making it the most COM
plete and useful Agricultural Publication Of the day.
Correct and val,ldble Market Reports.
The Markets viii be carefully reported, giving the
actual transactions which take place from week to
week, in Grain, Provisions Cattle, DO. thus keep
ing readers constantly and reliably advised as to
their interests During the past year. the knowledge
obtained from those Market Reports alone has saved
readers thousands OF dollars, by informing them
ofthe best time to sell or purchase.
Such a Paper is demanded By the Farming
Community.
Tho publishers confidently believe that the agri-
cultursts of this country are becoming too much
awake to tho demands of their own calling to be
longer satisfied with the slow monthly issues of pa
per professody devoted to their interests to trust
alone to the irresponsible extracts in o farmers
column, popular just now in papers chiefly devo
ted to business politics. or literature; and they look
for tho united support of all the intelligent farmers
of this country in their continued effort to furnish
weekly paper of high and reliable character, which
shall BIO progressive, and at the same time cautious
and conservative in all its teachings.
Essentially an agricultural Paper.
ThoA gytcatuyisf will not depart from its legiti-
mate sphere to catch popular favor by numbering up
its pages, with the silly fictitious literature, and
light miscellaneous matter Of the day; it has high
Or aim; and small part only Of its space win be
devoted to matters not Immediately pertaining to tho
great business Of Agriculture. The household as
we'll as the outdoor work of the farm viii receive
duo share of attention. Tho humbugs and nostrums
afoat in the community viii be tried by reliable sci
entc rules, and their worthlessness exposed. 1t is
the aim of the publishers to keep this paper under
the guidance of those who win make it n standard
work, which shall communicate to its readers only
that which is safe and reliable.
An Independent Journal.
The american Agyicutrist stands upon its own
merits; and the truthfulness, zeal and ability,
which it brings to the support Of the interests of the
farmer. IL is untrammeled by any collateral bust
clique, or the putting machine of any or thing.
Thoroughly independent in oil points its ample pa
gos studousy given alono to the support and i'm
provemcnt of the great agricultural class.
Editorial Department.
The Auericnn AgricHhwfa is under the editorial
supervision Of Mr. A. b. Allen its principal editor
for the past ten years, and Mr.. Orange Judd, A. NJ,
a thoroughly practical farmer and agricultural
chemist.
They win be assisted by Prof Mach who has been
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New England, and is now Agricultural Professor of
Amherst College; Rev. VIM Gift widely known as a
pleasing and instructive writer on gardening and
other departments Of practical agriculture, and in
addition TO these, number OF other eminent agri-
cultural writer's.
All the editors are mon practically experienced in
their profession, each Of whom can handle the pow
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Of sixteen large pages and to large clubs for less
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suggestions Tor the treatment of Soils manues crops,
stock, &C., which win often be worth to tho reader
more than the cost Of the paper for ayear.
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