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] It was 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". The Flower City: Center of Nurseries and Fruit Orchards. University of Rochester. 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. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  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. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  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. 97 and 98. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  6. ↑ Sabin, Joseph (1875). A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the... Original from Oxford University: Sabin. p. 206.

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