19S GENEEIAL HISTORY. 



THE MICHIGAN FARMER. 



This publication has so long been an integer in both the agricultural and 

 horticultural history of the State, that neither can be regarded as complete 

 without some notice of the other. 



For many of the earlier events in such history the facts are drawn from a 

 paper prepared by J. 0. Holmes, of Detroit. 



The Western Farmer was published at Detroit, its first number appearing 

 under the editorial charge of Josiah Snow, on January 20th, 1841, to be 

 issued semi-monthly. On Octobpr 15th of the same year the editorship 

 passed into the hands of Bela Hubbard. 



On March 15th, 1842, William Harsha became editor, publisher, and 

 printer. 



On the 15th of February, 1848, the paper was issued at Jackson, Mich., by 

 D. D. T. Moore (subsequently the originator of Moore's Rural New Yorker, 

 at Rochester, N. Y.) as editor and publisher, under the title of the Michigan 

 Farmer and Western Agriculturist, semi-monthly. Its first volume under 

 this title closed February 1st, 1844. 



With the commencement of the second volume, on February 15th, 1844, it 

 appears as Michigan Farmer and Western Horticulturist. 



Mr. Moore's connection with the paper closed with the issue of November 

 1st, 1884, he having transferred it to Wilbur F. Storey and R. S. Cheney, who 

 gave notice that it would become a monthly after the close of the current vol- 

 ume, and take the duodecimo form. In the twenty-first number of this volume 

 the name of Henry Hurlbut appears as editor, and in the last number of 

 volume two his name appears as proprietor also, the title being simplified to 

 Michigan Farmer. 



Volume three commenced in April, 1845, and volume four in April, 1846, 

 still at Jackson. At the close of this volume the oSice of publication was 

 transferred to Detroit. 



Volume five, number one, was issued at Detroit, April, 1847, entitled, The 

 Michigan Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Domestic and 

 Rural Affairs. Number eleven of this volume announces the sale of the 

 paper to Warren Isham. The twelve numbers of this volume appear to have 

 been issued within the year 1847, since the first number of volume six ap- 

 peared as a semi-monthly on January 1st, 1848, with Warren Isham as editor 

 and proprietor. 



Number one, volume seven, appears January Ist, 1849, with Warren Isham 

 as editor and proprietor, and J. C. Holmes, horticultural editor, from which 

 position, however, he withdraws after November of that year. 



With the first number of volume eight, January 1st, 1850, the paper 

 again becomes monthly, and this from an arrangement continues through 

 volume nine, 1850, and volume ten, 1852, except that Mr. Isham started in 

 May, 1851, on a trip to Europe, leaving Charles Betts (of Burr Oak, St. 



