Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-02-07
ADVANTAGES OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL
JOURNALS.

.~- JOURNALS. ..-
The following remarks from the satur-
day Evening Post, are just to the point,
and we hope our readers will be benefited
by them
SLACK time of year with us just now
NOT us in all the highways of city aud
town enterprise and industry-at the
Post office, in Congress and all State Leg
islatures. Pretty busy times at all these
points during the dominion of John Frost,
Esq. But with as outdoor agricultural
delivers in the soil, there is just now lei
sure hours in which to lay plans for the
spring campaign, and discuss questions.
abstract, and sometimes abtruse, which
which we shall have no time for when
the season for pbughing aud planting. and
haying and harvesting come upon US
again. -.. ......t
"Let us invest, say ten minutes, and
half as many paragraphs, in an argument
in favor of the necessities of local agri-
cultural paper, and the necessity that
such journals are to an agricultural coun-
try so wide, long, deep, aud diversified in
soil, climate. and fixed, unalterable condi-
tions az our own.
The necessities of a good, standard,
reliable local agricultural journal are sim
ply the confidence of the whole local COM
munity, taking so wide range of terri
tory as it can grasp consistently and sup
ply the wants of. Then the only other
necessity is Il prompt. generous, cordial sup.
port, both in subscription and adertising.
Let US bear in mind that poorly fed
pig will never fill our barrel with fat
pork, or a starved cow supply a trimming
bucket of milk Let us support the press
generously wherever it merits support, and
there is no possible question about our
getting our moneys worth in return, with
compound interest.
"The necessity of community so far as
local agricultural journals are concerned
is just this: The editor of local paper
living among, and being one of U.s. having
always his eyes and ears wide open and
being supplied. as he may be at all times,
with sensible, plain, and to.the- purpose
local communications, must needs be edu-
Gated in regard to our soil, climate, man.
ners, customs, and requisites of cropping
and culture than any far-off journal can
possibly be- though published with all the
energy, and conducted with all the edito-
rial ability that ever was or ever can be
expended on any publication now in ex.
istence.
whenever we find an agricultural
journal, no matter where it comes from,
or by whom published, putting forth its
claims to be a universal ,ode mccain.
just as the vendor of quack nostrum
claims pre-cminence for his pill or potions
as an lnfallible cure-everything-don't
let us believe any such thing, 1t is a
moral impossibility for any one agricul-
tural Journal to supply the necessiti 8 Of
all localities. No paper of that class pub
ished in Philadelphia, could be of any
paying advantage to the twenty thousand
and twenty farmers of the great state Of
Maine. The rule holds good with New
England at large. westward. and north
ward, and southwark from the Bay Of
Piscataqua.
"ln the Empire state. the american
Ayricnlturist, Rwal fmerican. Moore'.
Rural, and the Working Farmer, ali nave
broad fields of usefulness at home. beside
reaching out their long arms and doing
Infinite good to agriculturists in many
thousands of instances and at distanccl
very far remote from home in all direc
tioDs.
AS for the Country gentleman, it is il
in several respects an exception to our ag
ricultural journals as class
Let us all. everywhere, put gu tn,
manners of country gentlemen. There j
not FIVE in fifty farmers in our whole ru
raj population, but would be benefited t
three times the amour. of cost, in the wa,
Of information aud education fo- himself
his wife, sons and daughters by patroniz
ing. paying for. aud reading carefully tn
%. nearest and best agricultural journal lie
us widen our area Of reading, and tbereb
enlarge our understanding
AVERAGE AMOUNT OF WASHED Wool =
DR., Randall, in answer to correspondent
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