American Agricultural Periodicals and Bird Protection: A list of resources

Resources

American Agricultural Publications

Danhof, Clarence H. (1969). Change in Agriculture: The Northern United States, 1820-1870. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Includes section on agricultural periodicals.
Large sections available via Google Books. 

Demaree, Albert L. (1941). The American Agricultural Press, 1819-1860. Albany, NY: Columbia University Press. 

This is the classic monograph of the earliest years of agricultural periodicals. I was able to read a copy in the library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society but it is also available in a number of university libraries. 

Judd, Richard W. (1997). Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Judd includes a special section on discourse in agricultural papers about bird protection. 

Widely available in local libraries. 

Mott, Frank L. (1938). A History of American Magazines, 1850-1865. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Mott includes a section on agricultural periodicals.
Large sections available via Google Books. 

Stuntz, Steven C. (1910/1942). List of the Agricultural Periodicals of the United States and Canada Published During the Century 1810-1901. Miscellaneous Publication No. 398. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office.
This is an exhaustive list of agricultural periodicals that appeared during a one hundred year period in the U.S. and Canada.  Stuntz provides starting and ending dates as well as title changes and location of publication. The list begins in 1810 because that was the date of the first but short-lived Agricultural Museum. Stuntz considers the American Farmer to be the second true farm paper. 
Full version available via Google Books.