Southern Cultivator
| Founder(s) |
J. W. Jones W. S. Jones |
|---|---|
| Publisher | J. P. Harrison |
| Editor |
Dennis Redmond Charles Wallace Howard |
| Founded | 1843 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Augusta, Georgia |
The Southern Cultivator is a defunct agrarian publication in the Southern United States.
History
The journal was started by J. W. Jones and W. S. Jones in Augusta, Georgia in 1843.[1][2][3] Its publication started prior to De Bow's Review, which was established three years later, in 1846.[3] Indeed, the Southern Cultivator has been said to be "the Confederacy's oldest, strongest, and intellectually most impressive agricultural journal."[3] Its editors were Dennis Redmond and Charles Wallace Howard.[3] Its publisher was J. P. Harrison.[4]
It was published twice a month.[1] After the American Civil War of 1861-1865, its offices moved to Athens, Georgia.[1] It was then moved to Atlanta.[1] It later absorbed other similar publications, including the Dixie Farmer in 1882.[1]
Content
The primary readership of the journal was Southern planters.[3] As a result, much of the content focused on agricultural matters.[3] However, it also published articles about politics, education and literature.[3] Indeed, the byline read, "Devoted to Southern Agriculture, Designed to improve the Mind, and Elevate the Characters of the Tillers of the Soil, and to Introduce a More Enlightened System of Culture.".[5]
A large number of poems written by Confederate poets were published in its pages.[3] They also described books published in the North as "evil."[3] Moreover, author Bill Arp (1823-1906) had a monthly column in the journal.[4] As the journal publisher, J. P. Harrison, also served as the publisher of Arp's books, the Southern Cultivator' also ran advertisements for those books.[4]
Among its pages, some readers also discussed the recipe of mustang wine, a wine made from mustang grapes in Texas.[6]
Digitalization
It has been digitalized by Duke University Libraries.[1] Original copies are kept at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Duke University, and Princeton University.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Duke University Libraries: Southern Cultivator
- ↑ WorldCat
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Michael T. Bernath, Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Univ of North Carolina Press, 2010, p. 86
- 1 2 3 David B. Parker, Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's Goodly Heritage, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2009, pp. 94-95
- ↑ Google Books
- ↑ Southern Cultivator, Volume 18, pp. 154-155
- ↑ HathiTrust