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Please Post This Bill in Some Conspicuous Place…The Cultivator & Country Gentleman.
Albany, N.Y.: Published by Luther Tucker & Son. Van Benthuysen Printing House, ca. 1883. Illustrated broadside printed in red and blue, 28” x 20” plus margins, 6 horizontal fields of text divided by rules, 9 vignette illustrations. CONDITION: Good, short tears at margins, small holes throughout printed area, one larger one affecting the “G” in “Dairying.” An attractively printed and apparently unrecorded publisher’s broadside advertising the “leading agricultural periodical in the United States.” This broadside promotes The Cultivator & Country Gentleman for 1883 as “the leading agricultural newspaper of the United States” for those interested in “FARM CROPS AND PROCESSES, HORTICULTURE AND FRUIT GROWING, LIVESTOCK AND DAIRYING.” The publisher, Luther Tucker & Son, notes that The Cultivator had been enlarged to “TWENTY PAGES instead of sixteen” in 1882, providing “space for more liberal illustration and improvements in typography.” One field of text consists of nineteen testimonials forming an acrostic spelling “The Country Gentleman.” The nine illustrations depict the “Michigan Agricultural College Barn”; an “Improved Cattle Barn”; “Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart. Agricultural Chemist”; the “Jersey Cow Eurotas”; the “Ayshire Cow Flora”; a “Prize English Cart Horse Bar None”; the “Holstein Cow Aaggie”; the Short-horned heifer “Llanwern Ninth”; and an “Imported French Racing Stallion Rayon D’Or.” Publisher Luther Tucker (1802–1873) was a Vermont-born printer who, at fourteen years-old, entered the trade as an apprentice to Timothy Strong in Middlebury. Tucker followed Strong to Palmyra, N.Y., but quit his apprenticeship two years later. By 1825, he had begun his own operation as a partner of Henry Sleight, at Jamaica, Long Island. In 1826, Tucker spearheaded the first of his own publications, the Rochester Advertiser, which was “the first daily newspaper established on this Continent west of…Albany” (“Luther Tucker”). Later, in 1831, Tucker issued another paper, the “Genesee Farmer, while still continuing the…Advertiser. The circulation of the Genesee Farmer rapidly increased, notwithstanding the establishment of the Cultivator at Albany,” another daily of note in the area. Ultimately, after the death of the Cultivator’s publisher in 1839, Tucker combined the Farmer with the Cultivator and founded The Cultivator; a consolidation of Buel's Cultivator and the Genesee Farmer, the first issue of which was published in 1840. This publication went on to become The Cultivator and Country Gentleman, which was operated by Tucker’s “sons and a grand-son, under the old firm name, Luther Tucker & Son” (“Luther Tucker”). REFERENCES: “Luther Tucker” at Albany County NYGenWeb online.
Item #9565
Price: $650.00
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