Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-11-20
Among Our Contemporaries.

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AIRY magazines, have taken pains to
devote more and more of their at
tention and space to such matter rs
pertains TO agriculture and is of
special interest to the tillcrs of the
soil. We have once or twice refer
red to this matter in these columns,
rs an evidence of the rapidity with
which "farming" is growing in the
appreciation of all classes of people;
and we venture to predict that the
time is not far distant when no peri
odical publication, dependent upon
the general public for its patronage,
which ignores the "industry which
is the foundation of all other indus
tries will stand a chance for txist-
encc. Even now, ScriJncr's M0nthh,
which is recognized rs one of the
leading literary magazines of the
world, and which always aims to be
"ahcad," has taken the cue, and has
so much of distinctively agricultural
matter in its November issue rs TO
warrant the publishers in advertising
it as an agricultural number" OF
tue general character Of ScribHers rs
literary publication it is not our
province here to speak, excepting
to say that it confesscdly stands on
the top rung of the ladder, and that
whatever it undertakes TO do is well
done. The agricultural features of
the November issue are no exception
to this rule, as witness the following
list of half a dozen papers of the
highest interest to farmers, and 9th
ers interested in rural life: "Thc Ag-
ricultural Distress in Great Britain
by 7. T. Quinn "Farming in Kan
sas,' by Henry King success with
Small Fruits" by +. +. Roe "Rare
Lawn-Trees," by Samuel Parsons, Jr.;
"The Mississippi Jettics," and their
effect on the prices Of agricultural
products, and "lIow Animals get
Home" by Ernest Ingcrsoll. There
are hundreds of farmers in Centre
county who have sons and daughters
growing up in the comparative isola-
tion of farm life, and who ought TO take
Scribnsr's for them as connecting
link with the "culture and progress
of the world, while at the sa me time
its agricultural matter would prove Of
the greatest interest to the farmers
themselves. Price, $500 a year 35
cents n number. Subscriptions
should begin with the November
number. Buy it of your bookseller
or send the subscription price to the
publishers, Scribner & GSkIL2
Broadway, New York.
That sold reliable" the Country
Gentleman, presents it's progectus
for 1880 this week, and it gives us
pleasure to say a good word for il.
Established in 1861, it has almost
rounded its first half century, and
has weIl-earned its claim to be "the
best of agricultural weeklies." When
its publishers assert that ''it is un-
surpassed, IL not uncqualled for the
amount and variety Of the practical
information it contains, and for the
ability and extent Of its correspon-
dence-in the three chief directions
of farm crops and processes, horticul-
turc and fruit-growing, live stock and
dairying," we have only toexpress our
hearty concurrence. Dignilied and
courteous in its intercourse with its
contemporaries always reliable in its
information old enough to be firmly
entrenched in the affections of its
friends, and young enough to be in
the full vigor and strength of mature
manhood, the paper could have no
better name than Country Gentleman.
Published by Luther Tucker d Son,
at Albany, New York.
Since July last we have missed
from our table our valued contempo-
rary, the Scientific Farmer, and felt
its absence as a real loss. We are
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