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193623237Long Island New York: Not Published 1936. 4 certificates for satisfactory completion of home studies in: Farm Management Soil Management Rearing Calves & Heifers Dairy Herd Improvement; signed by various heads of the department supervisors and directors of Cornell University; approx. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" size; light edgewear darkening of paper; in very good condition; good historical ephemera relating to the history and economic importance of farming and animal husbandry on the east end of Long Island in the first third of the 20th century. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
193760055Washington: GPO 1937. Pamphlet. 48p. wraps. Miscellaneous Publication No 265 prepared under the general direction of O E Baker. GPO unknown books
1967qms484London: Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food 1967. Octavo paperbound stiff illus. wrappers vii pp 158 pp 8 b&w photo. plates 4 pp ads. Near-Fine with lightly rubbed covers. From Foreword: .The first part of the bulletin is an account of one method of cultivation practised on an example holding. Very detailed notes on alternative production techniques and on pest and disease control follow in later parts and finally a series of reviews of scientific research on the crop complete the text. Rather than an outline of cultivation methods this present publication is perhaps the most complete work of reference at present available to the practising grower and an index has been provided so that it may fulfil this purpose effectively. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1967. unknown books
188120560Sacramento: State Office 1881. 72 pp illustrated with small wood engravings in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California's apple crop was devastated by Codlin moths. He began studying entomology to find defense against the moths and ensure the security of his business and quickly became an expert on a range of pests affecting California's fruit crops. He was appointed Chief Executive Horticultural Officer of California in 1881. This report prepared at the request of the State Board of Horticultural Commissioners describes the life cycles of the major insects damaging fruit crops moths scale insects mites caterpillars borers aphids etc. and recommends remedies for dealing with each. It also includes the text of new legislation intended to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State of California. State Office unknown books
1818507Philadelphia: Pr. by Order of the Society 1818. 12mo. 14 pp. <br><br>The Society's goals were the encouragement and protection of agriculture in Pennsylvania. These aims were to be accomplished via legislation encouraging opening of new lands and by offering premiums and prizes. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 45299. Removed from a nonce volume and all leaves now loose; in need of binding or sewing. Six-digit number stamped on title-page; old library stamp on same. A fair copy. Pr. by Order of the Society 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
2543London: Mark Baskett January 10th 1765. . Folio disbound first title still conjugate gutter showing evidence of previous binding. Second title third leaf detached; gutter showing evidence of previous binding The passage of these acts was probably spurred by an the likelihood of an outbreak of cattle plague on the British mainland which actually did occur in later in 1765. London: Mark Baskett, January 10th 1765. 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
191648411Boston: Wright & Potter 1916. Fifth edition revised. 8vo pp. 258. Bibliography index. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Paper wraps. Frontis detached cover somewhat soiled and worn but interior tight. Wright & Potter unknown books
195154017Washington DC: U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 1951. Narrow 8vo pp. 20. Paper wraps. Index on rear. Leaflet No. 312. Cover little soiled spine staples little rusty o/w VG. Includes information on storage etc. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture unknown 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
192231737Washington DC: U.S.Government Printing Office 1922. 8vo pp. 40. Paper. Outer sheet a little torn at spine a light stain on two pages not affecting legibility o/w VG. U.S.Government Printing Office 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
187612209Philadelphia 1876. 24mo. 10 13 1 pp. Original printed wrappers front wrap torn at top stitched. Else Very Good. <br/><br/> Adopting the By-Laws of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. With detailed explanation of the organization's hierarchy purposes constitution. <br/>FIRST EDITION. IV Turnbull 55. 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
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
1960S9353Albany:: Agricultural Research Service 1960. 1960. 4to. 260 x 200 mm. 84 pp. Figs. tables; inked scholarly notations on p. 49. Printed wrappers. Very good. Includes: Hans Lineweaver's "The Critical Problem of Quality Evaluation" and about 14 other papers on frozen food. Lineweaver served as Chief of the Western Regional Research Poultry Laboratory of the USDA. Agricultural Research Service, 1960. unknown books
1838506Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Edmund Y. Schelly 1838. 12mo. 180 x 105 mm. 7 x 4 ¼ inches. 103 pp. One woodcut illustration of a "silk reel" in the text. Publisher's leather spine over printed boards cut of the silk reel printed on rear cover. Paper stock toned with age showing some tide marks otherwise a very good copy. First German language edition of this standard work on growing silk and mulberries originally published in Boston in 1835. The business of growing mulberries was one of the boom crops in American agriculture during the 1830s and Pennsylvania was one of the centers for its cultivation. "In the mid-1830s a new species of mulberry tree was introduced into America that purportedly grew much faster and could feed significantly more silkworms than the native species. This gave rise to a brief silk craze with increased widespread attempts at domestic silk cultivation and much financial speculation in the industry." For an interesting insight into the mulberry craze see the archive of William and Jacob Schoener at the Library of Congress where documents show how the family invested heavily in the crop. American imprints 51116. Philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/silk. Gedruckt bey Edmund Y. Schelly unknown books
198070959Los Banos 1980. Paperback. Very Good. xii 164p. Wrapper. 26cm. <br/><br/> paperback books
183218228Washington 1832. 8vo. 15 pp. <br><br>Decription of a plan to introduce the silk industry in America including the establishment of a school of instruction. Consists of the Committee on Agriculture's report and two letters of Peter S. Du Ponceau addressed to the Chairman of the Committee and the Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively. Government document: 22d Congress 1st Session. Rep. No. 222. Ho. of Reps. Provenance: First page with inked signature of Henry D. Gilpin here "H.D. Gilpin" the U.S. Attorney General who argued the Amistad case. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good. unknown books
183035700Washington D.C.: Duff Green 1830. Small 8vo. 19 1 pp. <br><br>This report consists mainly of a letter dated Philadelphia Feb. 23 1830 written by Peter S. Du Ponceau 1760-1844 on behalf of John D'Homergue a native of France regarding establishing a silk industry in the United States.<br>Â Â Â Â House document United States. Congress. House 21st Congress 1st session no. 289. Removed from a nonce volume. Foxing. Duff Green] 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
CA06A-00394Government Printing Office. Collectible - Very Good. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1915. 1st Edition. 100pp. Thin octavo. Paperback. Some edgewear and cover soiling 1/4 inch piece of paper loose from spine. Cover sl. sun darkened. Stamp to title page from the Statisticians Department Dec. 19 1916. Scarce. Weight: 3.9 ounces = 110 grams. Size: 9.2 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches = 23 x 14.5 x 0.5cm. Inquire if you need further information. Gach. Government Printing Office 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
