The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-15
PROSPECTUS
OF
The American Cotton Planter
THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH.

The publication of the American Cotton Planter
New Volume and New Seres) will be resumed at
the Publication office, in the City of M0ntSomerS
Alabama, at an early day, III Monthly Numbers, as
formerly containing thiTty-two pages each, hand
somely covered and neatly stitched. We attempted
10 rontN,ue the publication OF the Cotton Planter
during the war and did so for one year, at most
ruipoIIs cost. With the June number LOT loo@' we
susnended its publication-when we laid down the
men for the Scapel and went into the service OF our
country as surgeon, where we remained 1T ouI
n ST tin the close of the war. The disastrous war
compelling to suspend its pubhcatloh, having
closed shall now resume IT. III the same Ihe s'1io
and vigorous efficiency in which we suspended II
This Southern Rural Magazine Will, as before lhe
War be devoted principally to the planting inter
est of the Southern States 1t IS true; by the Wal
we have lost our slave labor, but have not lost
our fine lands nor our superior genial cllmate-the
| combined capacity of which have heretofore anu
Gott W ~ he World We have now clear field"
for the exercise of Southern energy intellect ana ca
! pacity. We not near ruined! Let US arouse us
/ to action-energetic industrious and peTseNerlnS
/ acton-and by the blessing OF God this beautiful
sunny South will again and very soon smile IN
the profusion of prosperity and plenty.
In the pages # this Rural Magazine much atten-
ton will be devoted to the subject OF well organ
lied system of labor for our plantation purposes
We shall also urge upon our anters the Importance
of combining Farming with Planting Grazing;
Stock raising Fruit Growing, and all horticultural
productions; thus d'versifying labor into its most
profitable misunderstanding TO our glorious country
the boon of independent prosperity plenty ana
In resuming publication of the Cotton Planter we
are still actuated by the motives which impressed us
in It's organization. Fourteen years ago-the lmpor-
, tance of combining science and improvement win
our Agricultur operations If possible, 1t IS even
! ! more necessary now than ever 1t Is true before
the war the negro and the Overseer were the main
reliance-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
teriug and building up our grlcultuTe upon an en
tirely different and improved basis. We must now
combine farming with planting. ana foster grazing
with stock raising in our country that we may
resuscitate and prove the wide waste OF exhaNse'
/. soil in our land We must also encourage ana pro
mote, by al means, manufacturing ana the me
/ chanic arts for which our country anords ever.
natural facility. The columns OF the Cotton Hahte
4 and Soil will not only be always open LOT culA
- icatOns ON all these subiectS-ev urgently III
- wiling such-but will be the stauneh and uncompro
a missing advocate of their introduction and encoui
agement in our system of industrial economy
A In common with fellow citizens OF the countr
n we have lost much by the war-Very much lot u
and while our profession offers perhaps & !;
field for pecuniary gain, yet such Is the deep, II
terest we feel an take in rearing the standaFu
excellence in our southern Agriculture Hortleu
ture and Stock raising that we are lnpelled 10 u
task before us with the bare hope that our effort
in this great and good work will receive at least
compensatory patronage at the hands OF the planter
and farmers Of the South
'A We ask our friends and the friends of A gricu
tural Improvement in the South, to aid in extern
mo the circulation of the Cotton Planter
ORR CHANGED RATEs.-1he very high price OF
che necessares of life with all printing material
naper occasioned by the destructive war out
IIrbich we have so recently come, with the reduce
,R ai,,a Of tTe currency compel us TO advance &
nrice of the Cotton Planter, for the present or
PFnch time when living and expenses come oo"n
old prices MINUS
One COPY one year in advance ~
Six Copies one year in advance =. agaD
All Post Masters are requested TO act as asen
at above rates-reseTving ten per cent as oonI"'
=. sions. ~, .aoca With
vo1n,s N B. CLOUD, NJ D.,
Editor and Proprietor
Montgomery Ala, Nov. Is, lseS 6eO'