The Florida agriculturist., 1908-02-01
The Agricu1turist as a Monthly.

culturist a monthly it was with some
misgivines as to how the change would
be received, but we are gratified at the
unanimity of Our friends in recognizing
the conditions which made it advisable.
We do not as a rule, publish the COM
plimentary letters which we receive
from time to time, but feel that we are
justified under present circumstances
in giving a few of the many that have
come to us during the past month:
R. c. J., Ho1guni, Cuba: II think
the change you have made in the paper
will be all right. Enclosed lind 50 cents
for another year"
Mrs. c. W. L., Hastings, Fla: en-
closed find check for ST, for two years
subscription. I'm sorry it is going to
be monthly; I'd rather pay more and
have a weekly, and hope you will make
it a weekly again another year"
G. w. B., Osprey, Fla: 'lnclosed
find 50 cents for another year, although
I regret it can't come weekly"
D. T. H., Aripeka, Fla: "I regret
very much that your paper !, to be
monthly instead Of weekly. / am prac-
tica11y novice in Florida and receive
a great deal of useful Information
through your columns. Can you not
give it to It's setni-monthly? [ would
rather pay more and have it sO.'
w. S. H., Hawks Park, Fla: 81 am
greatly pleased with the return of the
Agricultutist to its old-time v1gor-you
are making it what it has been and
should always be, the one live agri-
cultural and horticultural paper Of the
state Keep it up to the standard Of
the past year and it will win its way
back to a profitable basis and become
safe reliance for many, both old and
new, til1ers of F1orida's varying soils"
G. A. P, Wellesley. Mass: Your
january number is received. I like the
change to a monthly, there is such a
plethora of reading matter now-a-
days"
M. A. NJ, Punta Gorda, Fla: II can
imagine the difficulty you labored under
in getting out four times a month, a
magazine that compared we'll with any
of the month1ies in the country, that
are farming journals, exclusively.
''It has often occurred to me that you
had a tremendously big job on your
hands, getting out four issues a month.
I do not know much about journalism,
but it seems to me it required mighty
lot Of hustling to scratch together
enough matter every seven days to
make up the kind of journal you pub
lished
"There is no doubt but your readers
would prefer a weekly, but in order to
publish a weekly it would necessltate a
continuous and never-ceas1ng contribu-
ton of letters and articles pertaining to
farming and fruit growing, from those
same readers, and this supply would
probably be of such an intermittent
character that it could not be depended
on, and then you would have to resort
to clippings from magazines from other
states, whose agricultural COnd1uons
are entirely different from ours, and
whose experience would not count for
much to the agricultur1st in Florida.
The personal articles are the ones that
[ always enjoy most. and get the most
benefit from, and no doubt the majority
of your readers will say the same thing,
but to get that character Of reading
matter and have it as varied as possible
is hardly within the possibilities OF
Yourself and your associates until Our
state is better settled and more
general altruistic feeling prompts men
to share with their fe1lowmen, the
knowledge that experience bestows.
Until that time comes, it will probably
be best for YOU to edit a monthly, and
YOU may depend uDon me to give you
the benefit Of my little light, whenever
T co,, find the time IN mass If along TO