ABSTRACT
The Farmer's Almanack, published annually in Boston from 1793, was followed by farmers' almanacs in New York, Vermont and Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania and South Carolina, most of them published for state agricultural societies. Considerable space was devoted to reprinting articles from British and American serials of agricultural import. The Agricultural Museum, the first of the farmers' journals to appear in the nineteenth century, lasted for only two years (1812–1814). The publication of agricultural periodicals really dates from 1819, with the appearance of the American Farmer in Baltimore, edited by John S. Skinner, and of the Plough Boy (1819–1823) in Albany, edited by Solomon Southwick. A contemporary writer boasted of the "pregnant fact" that more agricultural journals were "published in the United States than in all the world beside." The agricultural historian can only regret that there was no foreign traveler sufficiently interested in American agricultural problems to do for the United States what Colman did for England.
