Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-07-05

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From the Genessee Farmer.

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From the Genessee Farmer.
Twenty years since there was but sin.
gle periodical in this country devoted to the
great interests Of agriculture and though
much talent and ability was displayed by
the conductor, it barely existed through
some two or three of its first years.
This paper was the American Far.
mer, published by J. S. Skinner, Esq. at
Baltimore. In country where ten.,welfths
ofthe inhabitants were farmers,-a country
that supported some five or six hundred
political pspers,-the propriety Of single
agricultural journal, was by many consider.
ed problematical. The experiment succeed.
ed, however, and the utility of the paper
was so obvious, and its benefit to the com.
munity so great, that it was soon placed on
a firm basis. After issuing some seven.
teen or eighteen years il was discontinued,
or rather issued under new name. After
the American Farmer was established fra,.
ly, the Plough Boy was commenced at
Albany, by S. Southwick, Esq, and was
the means Of diffusing much valuable infor.
nation, and exciting inquiry and emulation
among farmers. From some cause the
Plough Boy did not receive the encour.
agement such work required, and after
publication for few years was finally dis.
continued. Another Journal, well conducted
and rendering the cause ofagrlculture much
service, was established in 1923, at New
York, by S. Fleet, ESQ.,, which was dis.
continued by the publisher in the great fire
at New York in 1882. This journal was
the New York Farmer. We have men.
toned these pioneer journals, not only
because they were the first, or among the
first in time in this country, but because
they did much towards convincing agri.
culturists that the system of cultivating the
soil in this country was miserably deficient,
that great improvements might be made in
the preparation Of implements, in the man.
agement of manures, and in the general
order of farm; and none were so perfect
in the business as not 10 be capable Of being
instructed. They convinced many that
agriculture was Of itself one of the nobest
Of sciences, that knowledge was essential
to its successful pursuits, and that no man
was born farmer any more than a lawyer,
physician, or divine.
In giving catalogue of existing agricul-
'ural periodicals in this country, we shall, so
tar Us we are able, notice them according
to the time they have been published, mere
ly stating that the numoer we have before
US, admoniShes US that we must be brief in
our estimate of their character and merit.
where time has admitted Of development! in
these respects.
The New England Farmer is the oldest
of our existing agricultural publications. 1t
has reached It's seventeenth volume; and
bids fair We think 10 run long career OF
usefulness. Mr.. Fasscnden was its former
able conductor; on his death it came un.
der the supervision of the talented Com.
missioner of Agriculture for Massachusetts,
the Rev. Henry Colman, and the great ad-
vantage he enjoys in virtue Of his office,
are made subservient 10 The general dIttu.
sion Sound agricultural knowledge through
the Farmer, rs well as his annual reports.
The N. E. Farmer is published in the
quarto form, weekly, at 81 SO per annum.
The Southern Agricuiturist is the next
on our list, the first number of the twelfth
volume being now before us. Iii publish
cd q. Charleston, S. c. editor B. R. Carroll,
in monthly numbers about fifty pages. at
$5 90 per annum. 1t is well conducted.
but principally devoted TO the culture OF
southern productions, as cotton, rice, su.
gar, &C., and affords many interesting ex-
amples of the amount and profits of slave
labor, compared with that Of the free cult
vator Of the soil.
Our own paper, the Genessee Farmer, is
next. The Weekly Farmer has reached
the ninth volume, and the monthly farmer
the fourth. Both are in the quarto form.
the first containing eight and the last SIX
teen pages each number. Weekly So 90,
Monthly so cents per annum. OF It's