''The Genesee Farmer'' or ''Genesee Farmer'' was a very early

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founded by

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in 1831 in

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. It was devoted to

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and

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as well as the domestic and

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. It was one of the earliest farm journals, a genre that began in the early 19th century. There were only 600 subscribers at the end of the first year, by 1839 it had grown to 19,000 subscribers. It was available as a weekly paper or a monthly journal. Articles in ''The Genesee Farmer'' were collected to form an agricultural journal ''The Monthly Farmer and Horticulturalist'', "made up of selections from the ''Genesee Farmer'' (a weekly publication)" beginning in January 1836. Then in 1839 Tucker moved to Albany to edit ''

The Cultivator Luther Tucker (May 7, 1802 in Brandon, Vermont – January 26, 1873 in Albany, New York) was a publisher of farm journals in Rochester and Albany, New York. Tucker started ''Genesee Farmer'' (January 1, 1831), acquired The Cultivator (January 1840 ...

'', into which he folded his ''Genesee Farmer''. To serve the

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community, a ''New Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal'' was launched in 1840 by John J. Thomas and M.B. Bateman, later edited by Henry Colman and Joseph Harris. It merged with ''American Agriculturalist'' in 1866.Frank Luther Mott (1838
History of American Magazines 1741–1850
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Volume "X" (ten) was published in 1849, Volume "XI" (eleven) in 1850, and Volume "XX" (twenty) second series was published in 1859.

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