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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
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
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
19212222331<p>First edition. Thin octavo. Original red cloth with black lettering. No dust jacket. This scarce supplement which was prepared to list all cattle brands recorded with the State of California between 1918 and January 1921 with a detailed index. Good few stains. 135 pages.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>G. H. Hecke Director. James B. Newsom Secretary.</b></p><p><b>Tipped in is a 1 page TLS June 14 1949 from E. Clyde Harris to Pasadena bookseller Charles P. Yale stating the book is out of print.</b></p><p><b>Provenance: Collection of Rosario Curletti Santa Barbara.</b></p><p><b>Not located in Rampaging Herd.</b></p> California State Printing Office hardcover books
1936886Dallas 1936. Very good. Four items including two folding pamphlets one typed letter signed and an envelope. Light wear and tanning. Interesting and colorful promotional material for Rock Island Plow Company of Dallas and Oklahoma. A large folding poster printed in red and yellow depicts the two most popular plow models "built especially for Texas soils" on one side of the sheet and on the other a third illustration of a plow with promotional text. A second folding pamphlet comprises a small illustrated catalog with additional models modifications and specifications. The advertisements were sent to the Smith-Moore-Williams Co. of Bonham Texas with a typed letter signed and dated September 1936 exhorting them to post the ads in their store and including a wholesale price list. A stamped return envelope for potential orders is also optimistically included. Very attractive agricultural promotionals though one wonders what the market was for plows in North Texas and Oklahoma at the height of the Dust Bowl. unknown books
1930WRCAM56278Austin 1930. 502pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor chipping and some soiling to wrappers. Text evenly toned. Very good. A scarce illustrated promotional pamphlet advertising the products and services of a long-running nursery and landscape architecture firm in Austin Texas. The text is illustrated with photographs of the company at work their fruits flowers trees and planting & pruning services. Four generations of the men of the Ramsey family are represented with photographic portraits on the inside front wrapper. The last leaf is a blank order form for products from the catalogue. A smattering of copies appear in OCLC under a few different accession numbers. unknown books
190457195Buenos Aires: np 1904. Second edition "Latest Data". Tan textured paperwraps short tears along spine at head and foot of joints; chipping to spine ends. 8vo.; 136 4 pp. Folding map tipped in to rear wrapper. Illustrated with photos charts and 4 additional folding maps. Small previous owner's name stamp on front wrapper. A very good copy. <br/><br/> np paperback books
1914281944Richmond Va.: Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration 1914. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Promotional booklet for Virginia issued by the Department of Agriculture and Industrial Resources; 103 numbered pages with black and white photographs throughout some of which are unusual: the state's limestone-grinding plant near Staunton; the trunk factory in Petersburg; agricultural class in the high school in Harrisonburg; and the like. With frontispiece of a shiny red apple which has bled a small amount to the facing page. Front pastedown has a small amount of separation. Pictorial paper-covered boards backed in green cloth; oblong small quarto. Very Good binding. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration unknown books
191620860Minneapolis: Thompson Yards Inc 1916. Broadside 20.75 x 9.75 inches. Old folding creases a few short closed tears at margins; very good. Minneapolis-based company Thompson Yards tells farmers that diversification in agriculture is the road to wealth -- urging them to buy silos on credit on the grounds that they can't go wrong if they raise cattle while growing alfalfa and a variety of grain crops. In the 1880s and 1890s the Dakotas had been widely promoted by land agents as ideal for growing wheat and many had settled there convinced their fortunes would be made by the crop. But Dakota farmers had suffered greatly when their wheat crops were devastated by disease "black rust" or excessive heat. While this broadside may read as an advertiser's hype which it is it was not entirely wrong - in the first decades of the twentieth centuries Dakota farmers had success growing oats corn barley rye flax sugar beets sunflowers potatoes and other crops. With demand high from the Allies during the start of World War I such crops did briefly lead to wealth. But farmers also borrowed heavily as they rushed to expand and many could not repay their debts when demand declined after the war and drought conditions returned. Thompson Yards, Inc unknown books
19231082Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1923. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 563 1 pp. Profusely illustrated with 50 plates and 24 text figures. Original green cloth blocked in black with illustration of a bull's head on front cover. ¶ Strange U.S. Government production illustrating -- with alarming realism -- the diseases of cattle. This is the finest copy we have ever seen unmarked and clearly unread. Contains highly curious illustrations some in color created by a now-forgotten U.S. Government artist. It would appear that fine copies of this book are now scarce. Must be seen to be fully appreciated. U.S. Government Printing Office hardcover books
19152982Rome: International Institute of Agriculture 1915. Octavo 24 pages. First edition. United States.; 63d Cong. 3d sess. 1914-1915. Some light edgewear to printed wrappers otherwise very good. International Institute of Agriculture unknown books
19287459Sacramento: California State Printing Office 1928. Oblong booklet stapled in wrappers 15 x 24 cm. 119 pages. Text printed vertically while the covers are displayed horizontally. Second printing; the original was issued in 1927 and it was issued almost every year until 1935. More than eighty California seafood varieties listed in alphabetical order with recipes for each. Some wear to edges and bit of soil to a few leaves; generally near very good in attractive color printed wrappers. OCLC locates five copies of this second printing and nine of the first of 1927. California State Printing Office unknown books
192924850Washington D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office 1929. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy wrappers lightly browned small repair to crease of map. Paged 1557-1599. Illus. with 2 maps one large color folding. 8vo. U. S. Government Printing Office unknown books
195557707Other: Other. Very Good. 1955. Softcover. United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service: DUTCHESS COUNTY NEW YORK SOIL SURVEY & MAPS 1955; 178 PAGE BOOKLET WITH LARGE COLOR MAP IN 20 SHEETS 20 sections PLUS A LEGEND SHEET folded to fit in a 10" x 7" cardboard and cloth holder. The original case has the stamp of a depository library but there are no other stamps or marks - contents are fresh and crisp - as new. . Other paperback books
195557709Other: Other. Very Good. 1955. Softcover. United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service: ELMORE COUNTY ALABAMA SOIL SURVEY & MAPS 1955; 116 PAGE BOOKLET WITH LARGE COLOR MAP IN 9 SHEETS 9 sections PLUS A LEGEND SHEET folded to fit in a 10" x 7" cardboard and cloth holder. The original case has the stamp of a depository library but there are no other stamps or marks - contents are fresh and crisp - as new. . Other paperback books
195657706Other: Other. Very Good. 1956. Softcover. United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service:FAUQUIER COUNTY VIRGINIA SOIL SURVEY & MAPS 1956; 231 PAGE BOOKLET WITH LARGE COLOR MAP IN 17 SHEETS PLUS A LEGEND SHEET folded to fit in a 10" x 7" cardboard and cloth holder. The original case has the stamp of a depository library but there are no other stamps or marks - contents are fresh and crisp - as new . Other paperback books
198786707Zao Ying lu Chaoyang District Beijing: Agricultural Publishing House 1987. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. color photos 328p. Original cloth. dj. 26cm. These annual English editions began publication with the year 1985. <br/><br/> Agricultural Publishing House hardcover books
198886708Zao Ying lu Chaoyang District Beijing: Agricultural Publishing House 1988. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. color photos 328p. Original cloth. dj. 26cm. These annual English editions began publication with the year 1985. <br/><br/> Agricultural Publishing House hardcover books
191169868Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1911. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 614 pages maroon boards with gilt printing to the spine. The covers are soiled and rubbed binding splitting. Contents just slighlty toned- otherwise complete Good. . Government Printing Office hardcover books
19272075Washington D.C.: Goverment Printing Office 1927. Octavo 86 pages. First edition. A collection of some of the most popular recipes from the radio show "Housekeeper's Chat" a USDA program that ran from October 1926 through June 1927. Some light soiling throughout but still generally very good. In publisher's printed green wrappers. not in Cagle. Goverment Printing Office unknown books
195667835No Place: United States Department of Agriculture. Very Good. 1956. Softcover. Series 1944 No. 7 issued August 1956. Brown envelope complete with 17 maps and 231 page pamphlet. Very Good. . United States Department of Agriculture paperback books
191545549Berkeley: University of California Press 1915. 1st Printing cf. Gabler G9484 listing a reprint of 1921. Printed self-wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning to pamphlet extremities. Light signs of use. Very Good. 2 75 2 pp. Illustrated primarily with b/w photographic images including frontis of Scott. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/> University of California Press unknown books
198070959Los Banos 1980. Paperback. Very Good. xii 164p. Wrapper. 26cm. <br/><br/> paperback books
1927190989Dept. of Agriculture 1927-01-01. Paperback. Good. Blue cloth spine with paper wraps original map foldout attached to back cover! Book is clean has a good binding. Previous owner name inside front cover no other marks or notations. Minor edge scuffing and overall age toning/foxing. TP TNOS HS Dept. of Agriculture paperback books
195160344Washington: United States Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1951. Hardcover. United States Department of Agriculture Agriculture Handbook 10. 276pp. Green boards with gilt printing covers just lightly scuffed else very good. . United States Government Printing Office hardcover books
