Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27816
Notes:
Short biographies from the Agricultural Journalism Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison., Subjects include: Norman J. Coleman, Coleman's Rural World -- H.W. Collingwood, Rural New Yorker -- Pietro de Crescenzi, an Italian agricultural writer (1230-1320) -- Samuel Hartlib, Great Britain (1600-??) -- Gervase Markham, Great Britain (1568-1637) -- Sir John Sinclair, Scotland (1754-1835) -- John Stuart Skinner, American Farmer -- Jethro Tull, Great Britain (1674-??) -- Thomas Tusser, Great Britain (1524-1580) -- Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow -- Arthur Young, Great Britain (1741-1820)
Watson, J.A. Scott (author) and Hobbs, May Elliot (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1937
Published:
UK: Selwyn and Blount, Paternoster House, London.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25141
Notes:
287 pages., Chapter 10, The Press and the Pilgrims," describes the role of the agricultural press in the United Kingdom during the 1800s into the early 1900s and introduces some prominent agricultural writers/journalists of that period. Among them: Arthur Young, five Macdonalds (William, James, Alexander, Charles, Sandy), Archibald MacNeilage, John Chalmers Morton, James Caird, Philip Pusey, Rider Haggard, A.D. Hall.