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Philippine Council for Agriculture and Resources ResearchABAA

Data Series on Sugarcane Statistics in the Philippines

Smith Claude A. compiler US. Department of Agriculture U. S.ABAA

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE IN MEXICO 1947-48

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. 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. 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. unknown books

Bartlebys Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Texas AgricultureABAA

ANGELINA ORCHARD COMPANY wrapper title

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. "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

William Reese Company · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €