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The Country Gentleman

The Country Gentleman magazine, April 20, 1918
Founded	1852
Final issue	1955
Country	United States
Based in	Albany, New York
Language	English

The Country Gentleman (1852–1955) was an American agricultural magazine founded in 1852 in Albany, New York, by Luther Tucker.

Since the founder, Luther Tucker, had started Genesee Farmer in 1831, which merged with The Cultivator, which was merged into The Country Gentleman, the claim has been made that it was as old as The Genesee Farmer.

The farm section dealt with agronomy, stock raising, machinery, and meetings of agricultural societies; for gardeners there was advice about methods and information about new varieties of vegetables and fruit…The Fireside Department contained entertaining reading, including excerpts from new books, and a Leisure Hour column of selected poetry.

The magazine was purchased by Philadelphia-based Curtis Publishing Company in 1911. Curtis redirected the magazine to address the business side of farming, which was largely ignored by the agricultural magazines of the time. In 1955, The Country Gentleman was the second most popular agricultural magazine in the US, with a circulation of 2,870,380. That year it was purchased by, and merged into, Farm Journal, an agricultural magazine with a slightly larger circulation.

Notable people

• Maria T. Daviess

References

1. ^ Frank Luther Mott (1938) A History of American Magazines 1850–1865,"The Country Gentleman", page 432, Harvard University Press
2. Anonymous (February 8, 1911). "Country Gentleman Sold; Cyrus H.K. Curtis Buys America's Oldest Agricultural Weekly" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 3.
3. Ingham, John N. Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders: A-G. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983.
4. Anonymous. Room with a View. Time, Monday, June 20, 1955

External links

• List of available digitized volumes from the Online Books Page

Media related to The Country Gentleman at Wikimedia Commons

• Defunct agricultural magazines published in the United States
• Magazines established in 1852
• Magazines disestablished in 1955
• Defunct magazines published in New York (state)
• Mass media in Albany, New York
• 1852 establishments in New York (state)
• 1955 disestablishments in Pennsylvania