The Genesee Farmer

The Genesee Farmer or Genesee Farmer was a very early periodical founded by Luther Tucker in 1831 in Rochester, New York.[1] devoted to agriculture and horticulture as well as the domestic and rural economy.

Volume "X" (ten) was published in 1849,[2] Volume "XI" (eleven) in 1850,[3] and Volume "XX" (twenty) second series was published in 1859.[4]

It was one of the very earliest of its kind, a move that began in the early 19th century. There were only 600 subscribers the at the end of the first year, by 1839 it had grown to 19,000 subscribers. [5] It was available as a weekly paper or a monthly journal.[6]

References

  1. ^ McKelvey, Blake. "Horticulture Moves West" (web). The Flower City: Center of Nurseries and Fruit Orchards. University of Rochester. http://www.history.rochester.edu/flowercity/west.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-15. 
  2. ^ Volume X; Edited by Daniel Lee and D.D.T. Moore (1849). The Genesee farmer; Volume X. Original from the University of Michigan: D.D.T. Moore. http://books.google.com/books?id=S1tKAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22butter+making%22+hog&lr=&as_brr=1&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0. 
  3. ^ Volume XI; Edited by Daniel Lee and James Vick, Jr (1850). The Genesee farmer; Volume XI. Original from the University of Michigan: Daniel Lee. http://books.google.com/books?id=S1tKAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=intitle:%22The+Genesee+farmer%22&lr=&as_brr=0&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA3,M1. 
  4. ^ Volume XX (1859). The Genesee farmer; Volume XX. Original from the University of Michigan: Joseph Harris. 
  5. ^ Flint (etc.); Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Henry Youle Hind, Frederic B Perkins, Frederic Beecher, 1828-1899 Perkins, Thomas C. Keefer, Thomas Addison Richards, Henry Barnard, James Thatcher Hodge, John C Merriam (1864). Eighty Year's Progress of the United States...: Showing the Various. Original from the University of Michigan: L. Stebbins; O.F. Gibbs. pp. page 97 and 98. http://books.google.com/books?id=-soDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA98&dq=The+Genesee+Farmer&lr=&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a#PPA97,M1. 
  6. ^ Sabin, Joseph (1875). A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the.... Original from Oxford University: Sabin. pp. page 206. http://books.google.com/books?id=KqwFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA206&dq=The+Genesee+Farmer&lr=&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a#PPA206,M1. 

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