Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15133
Notes:
Volume 1, Detailed chronology of magazines of this period. Includes a section on "Agricultural Papers," with a discussion about establishment of the Agricultural Museum in 1810. "... it was not until 1810, apparently, that any periodical was devoted wholly to agriculture."
USA: Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15127
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352 pages., (Pages 123-124) "United States Farm Periodicals" -- cites changes in agriculture, identifies 126 agricultural and farm periodicals and provides 1954 data about combined circulation and revenue from subscriptions, advertising and miscellaneous sales.
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
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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.
USA: Ronald Press Company, New York City, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15134
Notes:
A general history, starting with English magazine origins. Emphasizes the "social and economic influence" of magazines. Includes descriptions of prominent national and regional farm periodicals: Country Gentleman, Farm Journal, Cappers Farmer, Successful Farming. Emphasizes agricultural leadership played by editors of farm magazines.
