Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-11-23
Rocky Mountain HusDandnan.
r.. n. SUTHERLIN, Editor.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1876.

t,lral and pastoral resources of Montana, to
gether with the absence of any medium cal
culated to encourage their better and more
thorough development, and to assist in her.
aiding the facts relating thereto abroad ovel
the land, prompted us one year ago to enter
upon the publication Of the ROCKY Noun
TAIN HusBASDMAN, ajournal y Of high moral
standard, and wholly different from amy
other published in our Territory. Without
a single dollar Of subsidy from any Source
whatever, or any pledge of support from
any ring, clique, party, association, or indi-
vidual, we set out upon theHerculcan labor
of establishing a newspaper upon merit
alone.
Promising nothing more than true and
faithful struggle for Justice, making Truth
always the desideratum, we went about our
work, using our utmost endeavor to make
each succeeding number better than the last,
and with what degree of success let the
faithful reader adjudge.
Free from personal, sectional or partisan
quarrels or controversy, we have main
tanned straightforward course, giving our
attention to such subjects and. advocating
such measures as seemed best calculated to
advance the interest of the entire country,
lending every energy, and bending every
nerve to this purpose: "Iell the truth and
make money" Giving information in re-
gard to variety of interests, selecting, and
compiling each department with great care
and labor, we have succeeded in making the
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN welcome
mcssenger--visting weekly nearly every
farmhouse in Montana.
Although we have made judicious use of
the scissors, we have given from seven to
ten columns of original matter each week,
making an edition of fully eighty columns
of editorial and over one hundred columns
OF editorial correspondence-givin facts
and figures relative to the amount quality,
and mode of rearing stock the quantity,
quality and value of agricultural lands-oc-
cupied and unoccupied-in the several val
leys of our Territory, which has placed it, in
point of local interest, ahead Of any other
journal.
we have crowded our columns with live
reading matter, never " doublingn nor con-
tinning "dead " advertisements for the pur-
pose Of saving composition and filling up
without expense, which is something that
few publishers can say.
In the beginning many regarded the ex-
pertinent as wild and visionary. Expert
enced Journalists assured lis that the patron
age we sought they would have been better
of without; that the farmers and stock
growers We're, at best. a very small and un-
important portion of the community-too
poor and unreliable to take any interest
even In their own welfare-and prophecied
our downfall within three months, or six
months at the outside. But, despite the
oracles of these would-be seers, with the
last issue we closed our first volume and to-
day we enter upon the new with brighter
hopes Of ultimate success than ever cheered
y Roman soldier to victory.
In entering upon our second volume. we
desire to express our sincere thanks to our
patrons for their generous support, hoping
to retaia and farther reward the same by
greater effort, as step by step we enter
broader fields Of usefulness.
Our Agricultural department. Shall not
only retain all its former excellence. but be
improved and rendered more valuable. Our
Livestock department. with promptness
shall contain a fun report of the latest dis
coveries made by scientific breeders as well
sls the current topics Of this line Of business.
Our Dairy, Poultry, horticultural, Floral,
and domestic columns ehail axao, - ,: