Scottish Agricultural Newspapers and Journals and the Industrialisation of Agriculture, 1800–1880

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• James A. Scott Watson and May Elliot Hobbs, Great Farmers.
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• The importance of agriculture in some of the provincial newspapers is noted in their titles. These include Ayrshire Monthly News-Letter and Agricultural Reporter, The Constitutional, and Perthshire Agriculturist and General Advertiser, The Stirlingshire Gazette and Agricultural Journal for Central Scotland, The North of Scotland Gazette: An Advertising, commercial, and agricultural newspaper, for Aberdeen, and the northern counties', Stirling Gazette and Midland Counties Agriculturist, Banffshire Journal, Aberdeenshire Mail, Moray, Nairn and Inverness Review and Northern Farmer, Banffshire Herald, Strathisla Advertiser and Farming News, and Orkney and Shetland Telegraph and Farmer’s Journal.
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• North British Agriculturist, 25 December 1861.
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• Nicholas Goddard, ‘The development and influence of agricultural periodicals and newspapers’, 1780–1880, Agricultural History Review, 31:2 (1983), 117.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 26 July 1844.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 26 July 1844.
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• The Western Agriculturist and Farmers’ Journal, 1 December 1844.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 26 July 1844.
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• This table includes known titles. As this paper indicates, a wider number of titles were issued, though not all of their titles are known. In the case of the Berwickshire Agriculturist, issued in the mid-1840s, full circulation dates are not known. As a result, it has been omitted from the table.
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• North British Agriculturist, 5 December 1849.
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• Goddard, pp. 121–23.
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• Goddard, p. 120.
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• ‘List of members of the Highland Society of Scotland at 29th January 1831’, Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, n.s., 2 (1831), 438.
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• ‘List of members of The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, at Ist March 1851’, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, n.s. (1949–51), p. cxxxi.
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• Appendix c, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 4th series, xm (1881), 57.
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• For example, The Ayrshire Agriculturist.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 23 February 1844.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 26 July 1844.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 25 September 1846.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 18 March 1848.
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• Goddard, p. 122.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 23 February 1844.
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• See advertisement for Tontine Reading Room in the North British Agriculturist and Edinburgh Evening Journal, 7 March 1855. The advert notes that ‘the Directors of the Tontine reading room, at the request of several respectable parties, have agreed to admit farmers to the privileges of members for the annual sum often shillings. The advantage of this fine room on Market Days, and the privilege of seeing telegraphic reports of all the markets in the kingdom, induce the Directors to believe that a large number of Farmers will avail themselves of this privilege. Persons wishing to become members are requested to call at the Room, and subscribe the Book’.
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• See, for example, ‘List of members of the Highland Society of Scotland, at 29th January 1831’, Transactions of Highland Society of Scotland, n.s., 2 (1831), 393–498.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 31 July 1846.
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• North British Agriculturist, 25 December 1861.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 31 July 1846.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 31 July 1846.
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• Reported in Goddard, p. 117.
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• ‘Agricultural literature’, quoted from Bell’s Weekly Messenger, The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, vii (1836–37), 107.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 29 September 1843.
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• Hudson, p. 35.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 31 July 1846.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 31 July 1846.
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• Nicholas Goddard, ‘Information and innovation in Early-Victorian farming systems’, in Land labour and agriculture, 1700–1920: essays for Gordon Mingay, ed BA Holderness and Michael Turner (London, 1991), p. 168.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 29 September 1843.
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• Robert Scott Bum (ed.), Year-book of Agricultural Facts for 183g (Edinburgh, 1860), advertisement, ‘advertising section’, p. 28.
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• Committees for 1881, ‘Publications and premiums for reports’, THASS, 4th series, xiii (1881), 9.
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• Robert Brown, General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire (Edinburgh, 1799).
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• Robert Brown, A Treatise of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Edinburgh, 1811).
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 26 July 1844.
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• The Western Agriculturist and Farmers’ Journal, 1 November 1844.
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• North British Agriculturist, 10 April 1861.
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• North British Agriculturist, 13 February 1861.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 14 November 1843.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 28 February 1845.
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• Quoted in The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 28 February 1845.
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• For example, Thomas F. Jamieson, ‘Report on the general principles of reclaiming land’, THASS, n.s. (1855–57), pp. 9–29; John Locklart Morton, ‘General Principles of reclaiming land’, THASS, n.s. (1855–57), pp. 69–67; John Mitchell, ‘Report of improvements on the estate of Arcan, in the County of Ross’, THASS, n.s. (1855–57), PP– 108–17; William Mackenzie, ‘Report of improvements at Adross, the property of Alex Matheson’, THASS, n.s. (1857–59), pp. 131–52.
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• James A. Scott Watson and May Elliot Hobbs, p. 282.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, or Farmers’ Monthly Magazine of Rural Economy, 29 September 1843. It notes that ‘any communication purely of a political character we will find ourselves compelled to refuse’. Again, on 29 December 1843, it reaffirmed this position, and noted that ‘When we commenced our labours in connection with this journal we avowed our determination to have nothing to do with politics’. On 27 September 1844 it noted that ‘It has been, and always shall be, our study not to admit into our columns any article leaning towards party purposes or trenching on the politics, civil or religious, of any class of our readers: this we observe, en passant, that our correspondents may not, in any instance, feel offended if we refuse, or delete from, their communications, on this account’. The Western Agriculturist and Farmers’ Journal noted how ‘politics will be excluded’ (1 November 1844).
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 3 January 1848.
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• The Ayrshire Agriculturist, 3 January 1848.
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