

Journal at Clay Center, Kas., in 1898. Two breeds 

 of cattle have successful journals of their own, 

 the Jersey Bulletin, Indianapolis, 1883, and the 

 Holstein-Friesian Register, Brattleboro, Vt., 1886. 

 Here should also be named the American Sheep 

 Breeder, Chicago, 1883 ; the Shepherd's Criterion, 

 Chicago, 1891; the Swine Breeders' Journal, Indian- 

 apolis, 1882 ; the American Swineherd, Chicago, 

 1885, and the Western Swine Breeder, Lincoln, 

 Neb., 1894. 



To poultry-culture no fewer than seventy peri- 

 odicals are devoted. Oldest and perhaps most 

 important are the American Poultry Journal, Chi- 

 cago, 1874 ; Poultry Keeper, Quincy, 111., 1884 ; 

 Fancier's Monthly, San Jose, Cal., 1885 ; Southern 

 Fancier, Atlanta, 1887 ; Western Poultry Journal, 

 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1888; Poultry Herald, St. 

 Paul, Minn., 1888; Farm Poultry, Boston, 1889; 

 Poultry Success, Springfield, 0., 1889; Reliable 

 Poultry Journal, Quincy, 111., 1894, and the Feather, 

 Washington, D. C., 1895. 



Other papers devoted to specialties are the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal, Chicago, 1861; Sugar Planters' 

 Journal, New Orleans, 1870 ; Gleanings in Bee Cul- 

 ture, Medina, 0., 1873 ; Sugar Beet Culturist, Bay 

 City, Mich., 1899 ; Wisconsin Sugar Beet, Menom- 

 onee Falls, 1900 ; Southern Tobacconist, Richmond, 

 Va., 1887, and the Rice Journal, Crowley, La., 1897. 



Conclusion. 



As the reader will have perceived, the unresting 

 activity and optimistic enterprise of the American 

 agricultural journalist will bear comparison, to say 

 the least of it, with that of any other calling in 

 this active and enterprising country ; and that is 

 not all. The motives leading to the establishment 

 of all the earlier rural papers were of a high and 

 distinctly professional character. The founders 

 hoped to make a living, certainly ; but so does the 

 physician, the lawyer, the clergyman ; the laborer 

 is worthy of his hire and very properly demands it. 

 To be of benefit to the public, to promote the 

 advancement of the basal art of American life, this 

 was the fundamental purpose of Skinner and South- 

 wick and Legare, of Tucker and Buel and Holmes, 

 of Allen and Judd and Jones and Colman and Botts 

 and the other great leaders. Even in the present 

 commarcial era, it may fairly be claimed that no 

 other class of periodicals stand higher in point of 

 conscientious and independent editorial manage- 

 ment, and that very few are so careful about 

 admitting anything of doubtful character to their 

 advertising columns. 



