Southern Ruralist

HISTORY

Newspaper

"In 1889 in Interlachen, Florida, Harry George Hastings (1869-1962) established the H. G. Hastings Company, a mail-order business specializing in garden and field seeds as well as nursery stock. The business aided both farmers and home gardeners. By the mid-1890s, the company began producing a monthly newspaper instructing farmers on the best methods of plant cultivation, which would eventually evolve into The Southern Ruralist. In 1899, the company moved to Atlanta, a more centralized distribution point for its mail-order operation. In 1919, the company purchased 1500 acres of land near Lovejoy, Georgia in Clayton County to be used as its seed and nursery stock plantation.

In 1932, Cully Cobb of Atlanta, Georgia sold the Southern Ruralist to Progressive Farmer. Cobb served for a year as the managing editor of the Georgia-Alabama edition of Progressive Farmer. In 1933, however, he accepted an appointment in Washington, D.C., in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration as director of the Cotton Division of the New Deal agency, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. +--Atlanta History Center.

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FILM HOLDINGS

  1. Dec, 1900; Jan 15 - Feb 1, 1910

  2. May 1, 1908 - Dec 15, 1910

  3. Jan 1, 1911 - Dec 1, 1912

  4. Jan 1, 1913 - Dec 15, 1914

  5. Jan 1, 1915 - Dec 1, 1916

  6. Jan 1, 1918 - Dec 15, 1918

  7. Jan 1, 1919 - Dec 15, 1919

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  9. Jan 1, 1921 - Dec 15, 1922

  10. Jan 1, 1923 - Dec 15, 1924