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1813347091813. 8pp. Disbound. Final leaf nearly detached and lacking lower margin removing a contemporary manuscript annotation. Other scattered manuscript annotations. Some tanning and dampstaining. Good. A pamphlet printing of an essay on sheep breeding.<br/> <br/>Specifically addresses best practices for the treatment of the ram that also appeared in Samuel Latham Mitchill's The Medical Respository in 1813. Not in OCLC. unknown books
19131284Los Angeles 1913. Very good. Folding map approximately 20.25 x 28 inches. Light wear and a couple of minor separations along folds. Light tanning. An attractive and scarce cartographic promotional for lands under development by the California Land and Water Company in the Victor Valley northeast of Los Angeles. The platted map depicts the lands along the Mojave River between Victorville and Barstow and the areas to the east and west above the San Gabriel Mountains. Above the map is a panorama of the Mojave with a bridge and dam site in the foreground. The verso prints facts about prosperous fruit growing in the region; newspaper testimonials regarding the valley's fertility and recent growth; photographic images of local agriculture including one large image of a Victorville Chamber of Commerce with some state fair prize-winning apples; and even an inspiration economic quotation from "John Stuart Mills." Good evidence of the substantial growth in agriculture in this area during the early-20th century; OCLC locates only one copy at Yale. unknown books
1779522781779. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. DER PRAKTISCHEN GEISCHICHTE EUROPAISCHER NATURPRODUKTE. Nurenberg: auf Kosten der Stiebnerschen Buchdruckeren 1779-1782. 7 parts numbers 1-7 bound in one volume. 288pp. continuous pagination between parts. 14 engravings of horses asses bulls cows sheep and goats all with contemporary hand-coloring. 4to. green paper wrappers hand-lettered paper label to spine. A near fine copy remarkably clean with minimal foxing and slight thumbing to edges of some leaves. The plates are bright and fresh and sensitively colored. unknown books
1902WRCAM56268Boston: Poole Printing Co. 1902. 16pp. plus two promotional pieces laid in one a folded broadside the other 4pp. on a folded sheet. Original light green printed wrappers. Light wear. Near fine. An unrecorded promotional pamphlet and related ephemera touting the advantages of investing in the ill-fated Angelina Orchard Company near Lufkin in Angelina County Texas. Around 1900 the group of Boston investors who printed this pamphlet established the town of Manton in East Texas which was designed to support their commercial fruit farm on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The present pamphlet sets forth the details of the available land for purchase highlights the advantages of growing fruit in East Texas prints testimonials from others in support of the area and enumerates the legal protections for landowners in Texas. The inside rear wrapper is printed with a list of mean temperatures for the area from 1901. Laid into the pamphlet is a sample contract and a separate promotional detailing real estate and insurance offerings from the company. <br> <br> "The Angelina Orchard Company incorporated around 1901 with a capital stock of $130000.bought 12500 acres of cutover timberland near the site of what is now Southland Paper Mills for growing and processing fruit. The idea of raising fruit as an economic venture in Angelina County may have been fostered by the Lufkin TRIBUNE and the Houston POST which published articles early in the century advertising East Texas as a good peach-growing area. The author of these articles an industrial agent for several railroad lines had reportedly also sent out thousands of folders promoting this idea. About 1902 the Angelina Orchard Company planted 500 of its 12500 acres in peach trees 350 in pear and 150 in plum. The company planned to plant 500 more acres a year until the entire tract was under cultivation. The farm was envisioned as a community and business center. The company built tenant houses for orchard employees a commissary a school and a church. Also planned were a canning factory a sawmill more tenant houses and a spur railroad. The plans were short-lived however. Manager Fred Brunsterman was shot during an argument in a Lufkin bank vault. The company then employed two different managers but profits never met the original expectations. The last manager attempted to make money by raising cotton potatoes and cantaloupes with no more success than the peaches had brought cotton was then selling for twenty- five to fifty dollars a bale. The Manton orchard failed. The stockholders sold the land and what timber was left" - HANDBOOK OF TEXAS. No copies in OCLC or auction history. Megan Biesele "Manton Tx." in HANDBOOK OF TEXAS online. Poole Printing Co. unknown books
192227498Hartford: Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor 1922. First editions. Cloth. Most copies very good. Ex-library call numbers blacked out bookplates on pastedowns and a few other small interior stamps. Spines sunned on some of the earlier volumes occasional spotting to edges faint dampstain to the edge of a few volumes most notable towards the end of volume 2 scattered foxing but nearly all volumes tight clean and unmarked. A nice set. Illus. with b/w reproductions drawings photos and figures. 8vo. A nearly complete run from the first report of the Board in 1866 to 1922 lacking 1896 1907-11 1914 1918-1920. From 1879 to 1895 the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station report and from 1888 to 1896 the Storrs School report were bound together with the Board report as well as issued separately. Overall thus 72 volumes in 43. An important record of agriculture agricultural thought agricultural practices and agricultural influences in Connecticut from the close of the Civil War to the just after the First World War. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor hardcover books
2735240 pp. Small 8vo cont. calf double gilt fillet round sides spine gilt. London: A. Millar 1755. Second edition; the first edition appeared earlier in the same year. This was clearly a very popular work with a Dublin edition also of 1755. "The first 100 pages of this book comprise an appeal to gentlemen to farm their estates as a reputable and profitable occupation and not to leave the business to the meanest of the people who are not only unable to make improvements but unwilling even to hear of them. He appeals to classical authority and to many of the English farming writers who preceded him. To clinch the argument he proceeds to prove how profitable a business farming is by giving specimen costings in which he estimates yields at 30 bushels wheat 30 bushels barley and 30 bushels peas certainly much higher than the national average at that date though possible in occasional years and some situations. He mentions some of the new crops and a rather ingenious barrel churn the use of which would give a larger proportion of butter for a given quantity of milk and concludes with an exhortation to cleanliness in the dairy."-Fussell II pp. 28-29. Very fine copy. unknown books
61417Two photo albums 11 1/2 by 15 in. bound at left margin with string ties. Approximately 350 black & white photos varying in size 8 x 10 in.; 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.; 5 x 7 in.; 4 x 5 in.; 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. laid down on black album sheets or held in place by corner mounts. A photo documentary of the USDA's involvement in the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Mexico including often graphic images of the attempts to contain and eliminate the diseased livestock. A typed introduction to the two photo albums approx. 240 words is laid in entitled "Border Patrol" and details the work done by the Bureau of Animal Industry to protect the U.S. border with Mexico against entry by animals and animal products which might carry Foot-and-Mouth disease: "Traveling by horseback Jeep and airplane the 600 men of the BAI Border Patrol keep vigil over some of the roughest and most remote areas of the country" along the border from San Diego to Brownsville.<br/>Several of the photos have typed caption labels explaining the manual labor required to dig the animal burial pits stockyards of livestock awaiting destruction disinfection of the livestock cars etc. Some of the images have manuscript notes in chalk in the margins identifying photos whose negatives were to be "sent back to Mexico." One photo identifies the Mexican and American veterinarians who are cooperating on the control efforts others show the replacement steel plows and mules distributed to farmers to compensate for their losses a group of images show members of the border patrol at work. A few of the photos are by well-know photographer Juan Guzman others are by Charles H. Bernhard of the USDA etc. Photo images of maps showing the areas of Mexico affected are included primarily south of Vera Cruz along the Gulf of Mexico as well as vaccination preparations in the lab and administration of vaccines in the field. Operations centering on the Jeffcott Ranch in the Toluca area are depicted. Several of the photos have become detached from the album pages. All of the images very good clear. This pair of albums came from the estate of Claude Smith a veterinarian with the USDA who worked overseeing animal inspections and quarantines. According to a USDA publication "Foot-and-Mouth Disease: A Menace to North American Livestock" USDA: 1967 the collaborative effort between the U.S. and Mexico to combat the spread of the disease resulted in the destruction of some 883000 animals. A vaccination plan was also implemented.<br/>A handful of the photos are stamped with the name of Juan Guzman 1911-1982 who was born Hans Gutmann in Germany. A photojournalist he participated in the Spanish Civil War against Franco's forces and produced some graphic photos of the conflict. Gutmann emigrated to Mexico in 1939 under the name Guzman and later worked for the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. <br/><br/> unknown books
1881883091881. AGRICULTURE Miyazaki Ryûjô. Kôeki NOKÔ ZENSHO 5 vols. Tokyo n.d.1881. Bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. Original covers and title labels. 22.7 x 15.5 cm. An extensive guide to the practice of agriculture in the early modern era of Meiji Japan. Largely text but illustrated throughout in woodcut some of which in each volume are skillfully colored. Near fine condition. Unusual and important work. Miyazaki Ryûjô had also produced such importantlandmarks of modern learning as the Shintei Nihon yochi zenzu of 1878. Complete. unknown books
177729105Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Bell. 1777. 6 159 1 pp plus folding plate outer blank corner torn. Pages 97-104 misnumbered 79-86 as issued. Printed on pale blue paper. Lacking the half title disbound with some loosening. Else Very Good.<br/><br/> Several of these "Essays are translated from a Periodical Work published at Paris under the Title of Journal Oeconomique the Translation being undertaken By Doctor Tobias Smollett an Author of great Reputation." This is the book's first edition and the only printing recorded on OCLC. The title describes the subjects covered: cultivating raising and dressing flax and hemp; paper making; bleaching linen; "An account of the Nettle Thread;" "A remedy against Rottenness in Sheep"; protecting plants "from the ravages of the game and insects that feed upon them." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 15597. Rink 1097. Sabin 78985. Hildeburn 3631. NAIP w003401 9. Printed, by Robert Bell... unknown books
6453Seven engraved plates several folding. viii 177 pp. Large 4to early 19th-cent. half-calf & marbled boards some scuffing flat spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed by W. Bulmer for G. Nicol et al. 1795. First edition of the Board of Agriculture's famous report on the potato. During the final four decades of the 18th century Britain experienced a number of corn harvest failures with a resulting rise in the price of wheat. The Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce the Board of Agriculture and various private individuals advocated the adoption of the potato as a substitute for wheat and great efforts were made to popularize the cultivation of this crop. "This work illustrated with seven plates is outstanding for its series of well-informed articles on the subject concerned. Potatoes are here considered for their use in feeding cattle and also as a food for human consumption."-Henrey II pp. 613-14 & no. 461. Nice copy lacking leaf with table of contents clearly never bound in. Inscribed on the half-title: "Presented by Joseph Sabine Esq. 22d February 1820." Sabine 1770-1837 natural historian and F.R.S. was one of the original fellows of the Linnean Society honorary secretary of the Horticultural Society and active in the work of the Zoological Society. Stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Trust on front and rear paste-downs. hardcover books
