No. 12. 



^Agricultural Papers. 



377 



Agricultural Papers. 



In order to accommodate our friends, and aid as far 

 88 possible the ditiusion of Ai,'riciiltural knowledge, 

 sulisciiptions will bo recoivcd at the office of tlie 

 Fanners' Cabinet for the following agricultural works ; 



1. The Cnltivator, published monthly at Al- 

 bany, price one dollar per year. We can supply this 

 excellent work from the commencement in bound 

 volumes. 



2. The Genesee Farmer, Rochester, N. V., 

 weekly; two dollars. 



,^. The Monthly Genesee Farmer, fifty cents. 



4. The MnUic Farmer, Winilirop, weekly; 

 two dollars. 



5. The Fnrmer.s' Monthly Visitor, Concord, 

 N. n., monthly ; seventy-live cents. 



0. Journal o^" the American Silk Society, 



Baltimore, mouti I' ; two dollars. 



7. The Farmers' Register, Petersburg, Va., 

 monthly ; hve dollars. 



8. Boston Cultivator, weekly, newspaper form; 

 two dollars. 



A brief notice of the preceding works may be found 



at page 357, vol. iii.. Farmers' Cabinet. 



9. The American Farmer, New Series, 

 Baltimore, John S. Skinner, Esq., Editor, 

 v.eekly, 8 pages, quarto, at two dollars and 

 fifty cents per year in advance. To Mr. 

 Skinner belonjvs tiie hit^h honor of having es- 

 tablished the first agricultural newspaper in 

 the United States — probably the first in any 

 country — under the name of the American 

 Farmer. The first number was issued April 

 2, 1819. It was conducted for a number of 

 years, with great ability, by Mr. S., assisted 

 l)y a number of active and intelligent corres- 

 pondents. The beneficial efi^ects of the 

 American Farmer were soon visible in the 

 increased attention paid to agriculture by its 

 readers — it rose rapidly in public estimation, 

 and very soon became the official organ of 

 many of the agricultural societies that sprung 

 into existence about that period, many of I 

 which still flourish. We believe that it isj 

 seven or eight years since Mr. Skinner dis- 

 posed of his interest in the Farmer. It passed j 

 into other hands; the title was changed to 

 that of the " F.\rmer and Gardener," and 

 E. P. Roberts, Esq., a gentleman well quali- 

 fied, in every respect, was selected as its edi- 

 tor. Under its new name and new editor, it 

 has run a course of usefulness for several years. 

 I\Ir. Roberts, engaged in a calling more pro- 

 fitable than that of editing a newspaper, re- 

 tires from the establishment; and its old 

 foundei, after having served his country 

 faithfully as a public officer for many years, 

 returns to his old and more pleasant vocation, 

 with all that energy which distinguished his 

 efforts in behalf of agriculture, twenty years 

 ago. The old name — tiiat of American Farm- 

 er — is resumed. 



[The Editor of the Farmer, and his son, T. 

 B. Skinner, otYer their services to the agri- 

 cultural community as agents for the sale or 



purchase of Real Estate, Domestic Animals 

 of improved breeds. Garden and Field Seeds, 

 and Seed CJrain of the best kinds and quality, 

 Agricultural Iniplemnnts, Fruit Trees and 

 iMoru.s Multicaulis Trees, Silk worm P^^ggs, 

 machinery, and all things connected with the 

 silk culture.] 



10. The Franklin Farmer,- puhlished 

 weekly, b pages quarto, at Frankford, Ky., 

 two dollars per annum in advance. The 

 Farmer is conducted by T. B. Stevenson, 

 under the superintendence of the Kentucky 

 State Agricultural Society. It is a good 

 paper; and our Kentucky brethonwill not be 

 true to their own interests if they do not give 

 it a liberal support. We should think it a 

 very desirable paper for the stock farmer. 



n. The Southern Cultivator, puhlished 

 at Columbia, Tenn., semi-monthly, on a 

 double medium sheet, each number contain- 

 ing eight pages. Price two dollars per year. 

 The Cultivator has been published about six 

 months under the editorial direction of David 

 Clayton. It is a useful paper, well conduct- 

 ed, and worthy of support, which we doubt 

 not it will receive. We are gratified to find 

 that the right spirit on the subject of agricul- 

 tural improvement is abroad in Tennessee and 

 Kentucky ; and as the energetic citizens of 

 those states never do things by halves, we 

 may reasonably expect that whatever they 

 undertake to do, hi so important a subject as 

 that of agriculture, will be well done. State 

 Conventions have been held, many county 

 societies throughout both states have been 

 formed, and many more are in the incipient 

 stages of organization. These systematized 

 efforts may, we think, be traced to the influ- 

 ence of the agricultural press — and especial- 

 ly to the Tennessee Farmer, published at 

 Jonesville, the Franklin Farmer and the 

 Southern Cultivator. 



Vi. The Rural Iiihrary, conilucted hy 

 S. Fleet, former editor of the N. York Farm- 

 er. Monthly, 40 pages large octavo ; three 

 dollars per year. Office 79 Barclay street. 

 New York. The design of the editor is to 

 fiirnish in a cheap form, "publications of 

 standard works, entire, compiled, abridged, 

 and original, on agriculture, gardening, and 

 domestic economy." The Rural Library 

 commends itself strongly to the patronage of 

 the friends of agriculture. A number of for- 

 eign works of great merit will be repub- 

 lished in the Library, and thereby afforded to 

 purchasers at about half the price it would 

 cost to import them. [The first volume is 

 complete, and may be obtained at our office.] 

 0:5^ We will receive subscriptions for any 

 of the Agricultural Publications of the coun- 

 try, not named above, provided the publishers 

 thereof desire us to act as agents for their 



respective works. 



