The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-10
PROSPECTUS
OF
The American Cotton Planter
AND
THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH.

THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH.
The publication of the American Cotton Planter
(Ncw Volume and New Series) will be resumed at
the Publication office, in the City of Montgomery
Alabama, at an 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 Scalpe and went into the of our
p st, till the close of the The disastrous war
compelling us to suspend its publication, having
closed we shall now 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
our fine lands nor our superior genial climate-the
combined capacity of which have heretofore and
ever will enable us to produce the finest quality of
Cotton in the world. We have now clear field"
for the exercise of Southern energy intellect and
pacity. We are not near ruined! Let us arouse us
10 electromagnetic, industrious and persevering
action-and by the blessing of God this beautiful
Sunny South will again, and very soon, smile in
the proiusion of prosperity and plenty.
In the pages If this Rural Magazine much atten-
ton will be devoted to the subject of well organ
iZed system OF labor for our plantation purposes.
We shall also urge upon anters the importance
of combining Farming with Planting Grazing
stock raising Fruit Growing and all horticultural
productions; thus diversifyng labor into its most
profitable COMMISSIONING to our glorious country
health.
In rcsuming publication of the Cotton Planter we
are still actuaed by the motives which impressed us
IN IT'S organization Fourteen years agO-the impor-
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
relianee-and they did bring present profit but at
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
terhg ana oululng up our Agriculture upon an en-
combine farming with planting and foster grazing
with stock raising in our country, that we may
resnscltate ana 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 our country affords every
natural facility. The columns of the Cotton Planter
and Soil will not only be always open for commu-
nieations on all these subjects-ey urgently in
Ntlng such-but will be the staunCh and uncOInpro.
missing advocate of their introduction and eucour-
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 ms:
and while our profession offers perhaps a brighter
field Tor Peeuniary gain yet such is the deep in
tereSt we feel and take in rearing the standard of
excellence in our Southern Agriculture Horticul-
ture and Stock raising that we impelled to the
task before u.s. with the bare hope that our efforts
in this great and good work will receive at least
compensatory patronage at the hands of the planters
and farmers of the South
We ask friends and the friends of Aqricu1
tural Improvement in the South to aid in extend
ing the circulation of the Cotton Planter
OUR CHANGED RATES.-The very hirh price of all
the necessares of life with all printing material and
paper, occasioned by the destructive war out of
winch We nave so recently come, with the reduced
value OF the currency, compel us to advance the
prlce OF the Cotton Planter, for the present or till
such sue time when living and expenses come down to
TERMS:
One copy, one year in advance - a 90
Six Cohles, one year in advance * 90
All fost Masters are requested to act as agents
AT ABOVE Understanding ten per cent rs commits
sions
All subscriptions should commence with the
Volume. y, b CLOUD NJ D.
Montgomery, Ala, Nov. Is, 1865 Fehsdtf