Jarnagin, R.A. (author / University of Illinois, College of Agriculture) and University of Illinois, College of Agriculture
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1962
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 23 Document Number: B02440
Notes:
#914, Harold Swanson Collection, Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Extension Editorial Office, 1962. 6 p. (Agricultural Communications Research Report 11)
Examines early national journalism in the U.S. through the case of Joseph Dennie, who published/edited the Farmer's Weekly Museum of Walpole, New Hampshire, during the 1790s. It was short lived (1793-1799)and produced "an unusually large quantity of original and sometimes controversial content." Dennie is introduced as "a character worth dwelling on."
He did not become a public name by virtue of publishing exclusively under pseudonyms.
Describes the cost-saving benefits of this recently developed method of offset printing. "Our Farmers' Week posters this year (1933) cost us, for a two-color job, just a little more than one-third of what we had been paying for what appeared to be the same grade of work - quality, paper and printing."
