The Genesee Farmer

The Genesee Farmer or Genesee Farmer was a very early periodical founded by Luther Tucker in 1831 in Rochester, New York.[1] It was devoted to agriculture and horticulture as well as the domestic and rural economy.

Volume "X" (ten) was published in 1849, Volume "XI" (eleven) in 1850,[2] and Volume "XX" (twenty) second series was published in 1859.[3]

It was one of the very earliest of its kind, a move that began in the early 19th century. There were only 600 subscribers the at the end of the first year, by 1839 it had grown to 19,000 subscribers.[4] It was available as a weekly paper or a monthly journal.[5]

References

  1. ↑ McKelvey, Blake. "Horticulture Moves West". The Flower City: Center of Nurseries and Fruit Orchards. University of Rochester. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
  2. ↑ Daniel Lee; James Vick Jr, eds. (1850). The Genesee Farmer. XI. Rochester, NY: Daniel Lee.
  3. ↑ The Genesee farmer. XX. Joseph Harris. 1859.
  4. ↑ Eighty Year's Progress of the United States...: Showing the Various. New York / Chicago: L. Stebbins / O.F. Gibbs. 1864. pp. 97 and 98.
  5. ↑ Sabin, Joseph (1875). A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the... Original from Oxford University: Sabin. p. 206.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.