INTRODUCTION 31 



Convinced by the financial failure of The Plow that 

 frequency of appearance, not price, was the more impor- 

 tant consideration, the Aliens and Robinson now con- 

 ceived a plan to publish a weekly newspaper called The 

 New-York Agricultor, A. B. Allen & Company acting 

 as publisher and Robinson as editor. The formal notice 

 of this project given in the November issue of The Plow 

 indicates its ambitious character: 



"THE NEW-YORK AGRICULTOR. 



A Weekly Journal, in Large Newspaper Form. 

 Devoted to the interests of the commercial as well 



as PRACTICAL FARMER and PLANTER, the STOCK BREEDER, 

 the RURAL ARCHITECT, the FRUIT and ARBORICULTURIST, 



the market and kitchen gardener, and the florist; 

 together with a complete summary of the most important 

 Foreign and Domestic News. 



Published Every Saturday. 



Terms — Payable in Advance. 



One Copy $2 per annum " 



Wishing to retain the advantages of a monthly journal, 

 A. B. Allen & Company proposed to publish at the same 

 time The Farm and Garden. 1 The content was to be 

 made up principally of selections from the pages of the 

 weekly New-York Agricultor, and was to be edited by 

 Solon Robinson and sold at one dollar. 



The plan possessed merit but required so much capital 

 that in the early part of 1853 the New-York Agricultor, 

 like The Plow, became a thing of the past. At this 

 juncture Horace Greeley offered Robinson the position 

 of agricultural editor on the New-York Tribune, and 

 his acceptance began a mutually advantageous connection 

 which lasted until his death in 1880. 



Robinson's decision to publish The Ploiv and his subse- 

 quent association with the New-York Tribune necessi- 



'See The Plow, November, 1852, p. 329; December, 361. 



