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The Farm-Poultry
Title
The Farm-Poultry
A practical farm and suburban poultry raising guide
Creator
Publisher
I.S. Johnson and Company. Boston, MA
Farm-Poultry Publishing Company. Boston, MA
Subject
Excerpt
Began with Volume 1, Number 1 (September, 1889)
Several thousand new readers have recently become (or soon will become) acquainted with Farm-Poultry, and it is fitting that we should offer them a word of explanation as to the scope and purpose of this paper.
Farm-Poultry aims to be a practical, helpful poultry paper, the intention being to offer the advice and assistance of its editors and contributors to those who want to make their poultry profitable. "Poultry for Profit," is its motto, and is the only reason for its existence. If it fails in that one particular its failure is absolute.
The name of the paper expresses this meaning. It isn't "Farm and Poultry," as many seem to think — and that title would give us all the broad acres of the farm to roam over. We could talk of plowing, and planting, and cultivating, and harvesting, and farm machinery, and farm animals; but the " farm " is no part of our mission. The "poultry" part of the farm or suburban home is our business, and our readers of the past six years will attest that we stick pretty closely to our text.
Beyond everything else, we want to be helpful. The editors and contributors are practical and practicing poultry keepers ; are themselves studying the constantly arising problems of the business, and giving the fruits of their experience in these columns.
We want to ask particular attention to the questions and answers dejaartment, which is the most valuable department of the paper, and one of the strongest and best features ever introduced into a paper. It is an " experience meeting," and the special feature of printing both the readers' question and the editors' answer cannot be too highly commended. We want that all readers should feel free to ask questions. We will answer them to the best of our ability; but please remember that editors are human, and "don't know it all" hence it is possible (just barely possible) that they may err in their judgment.
Farm-Poultry's constituency is a co-operative society, and we want your experiences and observations at the same time that you get ours; you can help us at the same time that we are trying to help you. Let us all work together in the making of Farm-Poultry better.
Several thousand new readers have recently become (or soon will become) acquainted with Farm-Poultry, and it is fitting that we should offer them a word of explanation as to the scope and purpose of this paper.
Farm-Poultry aims to be a practical, helpful poultry paper, the intention being to offer the advice and assistance of its editors and contributors to those who want to make their poultry profitable. "Poultry for Profit," is its motto, and is the only reason for its existence. If it fails in that one particular its failure is absolute.
The name of the paper expresses this meaning. It isn't "Farm and Poultry," as many seem to think — and that title would give us all the broad acres of the farm to roam over. We could talk of plowing, and planting, and cultivating, and harvesting, and farm machinery, and farm animals; but the " farm " is no part of our mission. The "poultry" part of the farm or suburban home is our business, and our readers of the past six years will attest that we stick pretty closely to our text.
Beyond everything else, we want to be helpful. The editors and contributors are practical and practicing poultry keepers ; are themselves studying the constantly arising problems of the business, and giving the fruits of their experience in these columns.
We want to ask particular attention to the questions and answers dejaartment, which is the most valuable department of the paper, and one of the strongest and best features ever introduced into a paper. It is an " experience meeting," and the special feature of printing both the readers' question and the editors' answer cannot be too highly commended. We want that all readers should feel free to ask questions. We will answer them to the best of our ability; but please remember that editors are human, and "don't know it all" hence it is possible (just barely possible) that they may err in their judgment.
Farm-Poultry's constituency is a co-operative society, and we want your experiences and observations at the same time that you get ours; you can help us at the same time that we are trying to help you. Let us all work together in the making of Farm-Poultry better.
Monthly, July 1908-Apr. 1916
Monthly, 1889-1892
Semimonthly, 1896-June 15, 1908
Contributor
Hunter, A.F. Editor
Boyer, Michael K. Editor
Robinson, John Henry. Editor and Owner
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