The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-08
PROSPECTUS
OF
The American Cotton Planter
THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH.

The publication of the American Cotton Planter
(New Volume and New Series) will be resumed at
the publication office, in the City of Montgomery
Alabama, at an early day in Monthly Numbers az
formerly, containing kthiPty two pages each hand
somely covered and neatly stitched We ATTEMPTED
during the war, and did so for one year AT a most
ruinous cost. With the june number for 1850 ~
suspended its publication-when we laid down the
pen tor the Seapel and went into the service of our
country as surgeon, where we remained at onr
st, TIL the close of the The disastrous war
compelling us to suspend its publication having
closed shall resume it in the me tne 81 Ia
and vigorous efficiency in which we suspended il
rms 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 nne Janus nor our superior genial climate-the
combined capacity of which have heretofore and
ever VIII enable us to produce the finest quality of
Cotton in the world. We have now a Clear field'
for the exercise of Southern energy intellect and ca
paclty We are not near ruined! Let us arouse ms
10 electromagnetic, industrious and nerseverinrr
actlon-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 If this Rural Magazine nauch attain
tion will be devoted to the subject of a well organ
lied system of labor for our plantation purposes
of combining Farming with PLANTING SraIin@
stock raising Fruit Growing and all horticultural
productions thus diversifying labor into its most
profitable channels-securng to glorious country
health
In resuming publication of the Cotton Planter VIC
are still aetuated by the motives which impressed us
in its organization Fourteen wears aso-the imnor.
lance of combining science and improvement with
our Agricultural operations If possible ii is even
more necessary now than ever. 1t is true before
the war the negro and the overseer were the main
most rnino .hey did bring present profit but at
i nus IeInous waste to the soil of our country.
These are now institutions" of the mast Our tT1e
interest, ior the future hes in the channel of fos.
terlng ana oulldlng up our Agriculture upon an en-
tIrety different and improved basis We must now
combine farming with planting and foster gra1;Tc,
with stock raising in country that 1Te NOS
resuscitate and improve the wide waste of ebo,std
soil in our land. We must also ENCOURAGE ~ -
mote, by al means manufacturing and tbe me.
chanlc arts, for which country affords svarr
natural facility The columns of the Gotten Planter
and Soil will not only be always open for comm
viting sueh-but will be the staunch and nucompro.
missing advocate of their introduction and eDcour.
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 our profession offers perhaps brighter
field for pecuniary gain vet. such is the deem in
terest we feel and take in rearing the standard of
excellence in Southern A Agriculture HorficuI-
tnre and Stock raising. that we impeled to the
IN this great and good work viii receive at least a
and farmers of the South - . = "
We ask our friends and the friends of Asricnl-
ura Improvement in the South to aid us in extend
lhS tne circulation of the Cotton Planter
the nacesaa kAIEs-The very high price of all
necessar1es of life with all printing material and
paper occasioned by the destructive war out of
ra1na of th lave 50 recently come with the reduced
price OF the Cotton Planter for the present or ali
1S 1r;cn "nen living and expenses come down to
TERMS.
One copy, one year in advance. s-rxxs saloo
Six Copies one year, in advance iSio0
>. lost masters are requested to act as agents
az above es-reserving ten per cent as conmks.
An subscriptions should eOmanepce with thA
aL s Es,ito LLOYD ooS P M d,
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