The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-14
PROSPECTUS
The American Cotton Planter
AND
THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH.

lflE SOlLI Of 1HE SUI II.
The publication of the American Cotton Planter
New Volume and New Seres) will be resumed at
the Publication office in the City of Montgomery,
Alabama at early day, in Monthly Numbers, as
formerly. containing .thirty-twO pages each, hand
somely covered and neatly stitched. We attempted
to continue the publication of the Cotton Planter
during the war, and did so for one year, at most
ruinous cost With the June number for 1862, we
suspended its publication-when we laid down the
pen for the Scape and went into the service of
country as surgeon, where we remained at our
post, till the close of the war. The disastrous war
compelling to suspend its publication, having
closed shall resume it, in the same fine style
and vigorous efficiency in which we suspended it.
This southern Rural Magazine will as before the
War be devoted principally to the planting inter
est of the Southern States 1t is true by the war,
we have lost our slave labor, but have not lost
combined capacity of which have heretofore and
will enable us to produce the finest quality of
for the exercise of Southern energy intellect and
pacity We are not near ruined Let us arouse us
to electromagnetic industrious and persevering
action-and by the blessing of God, this beautiful
/ Sunny South viii again and very soOn smile in
! the profusion OF prosperity and plenty.
In the pages CT this Rural Magazine much atten-
tiOn will be devoted to the subject of well organ
lied system of labor for plantation purposes.
We shall also urge upon our planters the importance
of combining Farming with Planting Grazing
Stock raising, Fruit Growing and all Horticultural
productions thus diversifying labor into its most
profitable Commissioning to glorious country
health
still actuated by the motives which impressed
in its organization. Fourteen years ago-the mpOr-
lance OF combining science and improvement with
our Agricultural operations. If possible, it is even
more necessary now than ever. 1t is true, before
the war, the negro and the Overseer were the main
rellance-and they did bring present profit, but at
a most ruinous waste to the soil of our country.
These are now institutions" of the past. Our true
interest for the future lies in the channel of fos-
tering and building up our Agriculture upon en-
tirely different and improved basis. We must now
combine farming with planting, and foster grazing
We ms
resusctate and improve the wide waste of exhausted
soil in our land. We must also encourage and pro
mote, by al means manufacturing and the me
chanic arts, for which country affords every
natural facility The columns of the Cotton Planter
and Soil will not only be always open for commu
nications all these subjeets-even urgently in
| viting such-but viii be the staunch and uncompro
/ missing advocate of their Introduction and encour
| agement in our system of industrial economy.
In common with our fellow citizens of the country
we have lost much by the war-very much for us
and while profession offers perhaps, brighter
field for peeuniary gain, yet such is the deep in
terest we feel and take in rearing the standard o
excellence in our Southern Agriculture, Hortieul
ture and Stock raising that we are impeled to tn,
task before u.s. with the bare hope that orr efforts
in this great and good work win receive at least
compensatory patronage at the hands OF the planter
and farmers OF the South
We ask our friends and the friends of Agricul
tural Improvement in the South to aid in extend
inc the circulation of the Cotton Planter.
Our CHANGED RATEs-The very high price of al
the neeessaries of life with all printing material an.
paper, occasioned by the destructive war out o
which we have so recently come, with the reduced
Of Of the the eo1oa Faner for the present or u
such time when living and expenses come down .
old prices ,,,S
| One copy one year in advance - Y
SIX Copies one year, in advance 10 '
All Post Masters are requested to act as agents
az above Intervening ten per cent. as commits
All All subscriptions should eomnsnce with tn
Volume n E5 =, 80 syd = ISronrietor
Montgomery, Ala, Nov. Is. 1865 Febsd'