The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-11-25
- [FrOn the Medina Gazette.
What Papers Shall You Take
NREt Year?

What Papers SEHHll EOu AAhS
Next Year?
There is much talk of self-culture.
Among average American men and
women literary culture is derived
mainly from periodical publications
the daily and weekly newspaper
and the monthly magazine. C0mPar-
atively few read books. It is a mat
ter worth thinking of, therefore, what
papers and magazines ought to be
taken, as affOrding the reading matter
desired. The approach Of the close Of
the year gives timeliness to discussion
of the question, and we throw in some
suggestions.
The number of periodicals which
every well regulated family ought to
take must depend upon the means OF
the family; but we hold that in deter
mining this, considerations of econ
omy as applied to ordinary bread and
butter affairs should be laid aside.
And first an the list of newspapers to
be taken, if its cost is even at the sac
Irifice of some article of personal com
| fort or luxury, is the County Paper.
No one ought to try to getalOng with
out the journal published in his
county. AS a Taxpayer, interested in
! the public and official affairs of his
county, the local paper gives him in
formation he can get in no other pub
llfcatiOn- worth to him
1every year in dollars and cents many
times the cost of subscription. AS d
citizen, interested in local politics
social, religious and educational move
ments, the county paper keep record
for him which he can not do without
AS neighbOr, interested in the loca
news of the community, the county
| paper keeps him thoroughly posted
| Finally, as a parent, he cannot afforC
to let his family do without the ad
vantages that come from the regula
visits Of the county paper. (S2a year
in advance.)
For professional men there are jour
nails devoted exclusively to matters o
their profession, which they are Oblig
ed to take if they would keep up witt
their cotemporaries. There are ais,
= iunumerabIe periodicals of especial in
terest to men engaged in commercial
pursuits, to mechanics, to artisans ant
to manufacturers. These are special
ties, which intelligent, enterprisini
men in the various departments 0
trade and labor order to their addres
as a part of their stock, or as necessar,
tools.
Can the same be said of Agriculture
Papers? We do not know. w
would prefer to hear the opinions c
practical, common. sense farmers o.
this point, before risking one of ou
= own. This much, however, we thin
/, can be safely said: if man ough
to be able to tell the good points of
horse before venturing TO deal in tn
article, he ought by all means to max
himself acquainted with the merits
an agricultural journal before sendin
his subscription to the publisher.
is probably within the limits of trut
ia. assert that more than half of the 81
called agricultural papers ana mag
T zines in the country are conducted b
Bohemians who know no more aboI
Of farming than the ordinary politics
'F editor, and that's precious little.
there be really valuable agriculture
periodicals, farmers should take them
and in making the selection GOO
Judgment would suggest that the
take the paper of that character puI
h lished nearest them, as being the mo
E likely to answer their purpose. TT
'r prominent journals of this kind ar
we believe, the Ohio Farmer, IL
Rural New Yorker and the America
st Agriculturist. OF papers of a semi-a
7d ricuitural character, Hearth and HON
it's N. Y, stands at the head. 1t is
capital family paper, and probably
harmless, agriculturally, as any
them.
or periodicals Of a special Characte