HISTORICAL SKETCH OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS 



nary theater. In the one 

 case as in the other, the 

 furnishing of such infor- 

 mation was not the motive 

 of establishing the publi- 

 cation. What the proprie- 

 tor had in mind was the 

 selling of advertising 

 space. He by no means 

 aspires to anything like 

 the position of an author 

 having ideas to offer to 

 the public for suitable 

 compensation; he is more 

 like the owner -of a bill- 

 board. He puts in the best 

 reading matter that he 

 can obtain, simply in order 

 to get people to notice 

 the advertisements and 

 patronize his customers. 

 The counting-room has 

 the center of the stage ; 

 the editorial sanctum has 

 become very largely a 

 secondary consideration. 



Of the general agricul- 

 tural papers established 

 since 1875, the follow- 

 ing should probably be 

 counted as among the 

 most important: Farmer's 

 Review, Chicago, 1877 ; 

 Wisconsin Agriculturist, 

 Racine, 1877 ; Farm and 

 Fireside, Springfield, Ohio, 

 1877; Farm, Field and 

 Stockman (Farm, Field and 

 Fireside, National Farm 

 Press), Chicago, 1877; Na- 

 tional Farmer, Pittsburg, 

 1877 ; Farmer's Tribune, 

 Sioux City, Iowa, 1878 ; 

 Texas Farmer, Dallas, 

 1878; Farm and Home, 

 Springfield, 111., 1880; Da- 

 kota Farmer, Aberdeen, 

 S. D., 1881; Farm and 

 Ranch, Austin (now Dal- 

 las), Tex., 1883; Farm, 

 Stock and Home, Minneap- 

 olis, 1884 ; Orange Judd 

 Farmer, Chicago, 1886 ; 

 Northwestern Agricultur- 

 ist, Minneapolis, 1886 ; 

 Progressive Farmer,Wins- 

 ton-Salem, N. C., 1886, now 



Raleigh; Farmer's Voice, Chicago, 1887; Oklahoma 

 Farmer, Guthrie, 1890; Southern Ruralist, Atlanta, 

 1893 ; Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa, 1895 ; 

 Southern* Farm Gazette, Starkville, Miss., 1895 ; 

 National Farmer, St. Louis, 1898 ; Midland Farmer, 

 St. Louis, 1898; Twentieth Century Farmer, 

 Omaha, 1900 ; Arkansas Homestead, Little Rock, 

 1900 ; Tribune Fanner, New York, 1901 ; Sucoess- 



PHILADELPHIA: 



j J. S. SKINNER, 79 WALNUT STREET. 



1861. 



Fig. 39. Title-page of one of the early magazine-like periodicals. Slightly reduced. 



therefore an historically interesting past to which 

 their younger competitors can lay no claim. Still 

 less is it intended to be implied that the newer 

 papers are as a class inferior to the older in edi- 

 torial ability and enterprise. They furnish, for 

 little or nothing, and often in the very best and 

 most available form, information that is wanted 

 by the public. So does the program of the ordi- 



