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.
Australia: Hamlyn Australia, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25291
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, 338 pages., History of the Weekly Times newspaper at the 125th anniversary of publication (1869-1994). Cited as "Australia's biggest-selling rural weekly newspaper widely recognized as the Bible of the Bush."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00327
Notes:
203 pages., Includes information about the Farmer's Museum, "a strange and uncharacteristic periodical: a hybrid of the newspaper and the magazine." Describes in particular the involvement of Joseph Dennie, beginning in 1794.
