Agriculture

1915 · 64127 — Chazy NY & Chicago IL: W.H. Miner Lammers Shilling Company 1915. Folio. 10.5 x 13 in. 2 114 pp. Illustrated and printed in sepia throughout over 100 photo illustrations some colour-tinted colour plates 1 large folding colour map at rear. Embossed & illustrated flexible tan covers raised embossed gilt red orange green & red ornament illustration & lettering yapp fore-edges illustrated endpapers w/ the original cardboard mailing case Fine/Fine copy. First edition thus of this lavishly printed land promotion issued by William H. Miner celebrating and promoting his improvements and vast expansion to the family Chazy Dairy Farm largely funded by Miner’s famed mechanical inventions of draft rigging for railcars or the tandem rigging draft patented in 1891 and by 1910 used in more than 15000 railcars. He had begun developing Heart’s Delight by 1903 and by 1915 the farm encompassed 12000 acres producing beef and dairy cattle mules draft horses purebred horses sheep pigs chickens turkeys and brook trout. With 800 employees the farm operated a dairy creamery box factory ice house greenhouses grist mill numerous hydroelectric dams and featured a 20-bedroom guesthouse where vacationers and potential investors could observe the latest developments agriculture and farming methods. W.H. Miner, Lammers Shilling Company, unknown