HISTORICAL SKETCH OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS 



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To the preceding nine papers two others 

 could be added, were it not for interruptions 

 of their publication. One is the Southern 

 Planter, born at Richmond, Va., January, 

 1841, C. T. Botts publisher; a monthly of 

 sixteen octavo pages ; one dollar per annum. 

 "A very able paper, upon the plan proposed," 

 says the prospectus, "published in our sister 

 state of New York, has been eminently suc- 

 cessful and productive of great good to the 

 cause of agriculture. Why should not our 

 own state, more peculiarly agricultural, be 

 inspired by so excellent an example?" Publi- 

 cation of the Southern Planter was inter- 

 rupted shortly after the outbreak of the 

 Rebellion, on account of the impossibility of 

 obtaining paper ; and was not resumed until 

 1867. 



The other old paper that suffered a break 

 in its history is the present New England 

 Farmer, which suspended operations for five 

 months in 1864. It was founded December 9, 

 1848, less than two years and a half after 

 the decease of its predecessor of the same 

 name, and there must have been some temp- 

 tation to "date back," but it was resisted, 

 the issue of December 9, 1848, being honestly 

 marked "Vol. I, No. 1." It was originally a 

 bi-weekly, octavo in form, sixteen pages ; S. 

 W. Cole editor, J. Nourse publisher ; subscrip- 

 tion price not stated. Publication was con- 

 tinued at Boston until a few years ago, when 

 it changed hands and was taken to Brattle- 

 boro, Vt. For long years, this paper com- 

 manded the support of all the principal lead- 

 ers in rural advancement in New England ; 

 and if we were to select half a dozen peri- 

 odicals whose story is inextricably bound up 

 with the history of American agriculture, 

 the New England Farmer would assuredly 

 be one. 



During the twenty-eight years that elapsed 

 between the founding of the Genesee Farmer 

 and the compilation of the first complete list 

 of agricultural papers in this country, a con- 

 siderable number not destined to very long 

 life were established. Among them were the 

 following: Northern Farmer, Newport, N. H., 

 July 7, 1832 ; Farmers' Register, Richmond, 

 Va., June, 1833 ; Tennessee Farmer, Jones- 

 borough, December, 1834 ; Farmer's Cabinet, 

 Philadelphia, 1836; Farmer's Monthly Visitor, 

 Concord, N. H., January 15, 1839 ; Western 

 Farmer, Cincinnati, September, 1839 ; the 

 first Southern Cultivator, Columbia, Tenn., 

 1839 ; Southern Cabinet of Agriculture?* 

 Charleston, S. C., January, 1840; Agricul- 

 turist, Nashville, Tenn., January, 1840 ; Cen- 

 tral New York Farmer, Rome, N. Y., January, 

 1842 ; the second New York Farmer, 1844 ; 

 Ohio Cultivator, Columbus, January 1, 1845 ; 

 Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, Albany, 

 January, 1845 ; Monthly Journal of Agriculture, 

 New York, July 1845; Working Farmer, New York, 

 1849; Northwestern Cultivator, Madison, Wis., 



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