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Poughkeepsie, NY : Adriance, Platt & Co, 1903. 15 x 23.6 cm. Catalogue for parts for mowers, reapers, with detailed drawings showing gears, blades, springs, more gears, springs, pinions, screws, scythes, oil cups, bushings, nuts, wrenches, etc. paper booklet, cover lightly soiled, good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Richmond, VA: The Southern Planter, 1911. 20.8 x 26.4 cm. Harvesting the corn crop; photos from Virginia State Fair; Methods of Drenching Animals; Gasoline as a vermifuge; Old poultryman looks back on a half century of chicken farming; hatching chickens from high-priced northern eggs. Photos of cattle and horses from Virginia State Fair. Ads for Aspinwall Potato Planter, Fish… Read more about this item

Springfield, MA: Eastern States Cooperator, 1940. 21.6 x 28 cm. Cooperator aims to make your poultry business better in 1940. Cover photo features ""night life on a poultry farm"" showing new Connecticut style poultry house with brooders for 3000 chicks. Idea for making 1940 dairying profitable: Easten States Fitting Ration. Qucik and easy Topdressing. Use Sawdust for easy… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Darling & Keith, 34 Merchants Row, 1880. 54 x 76 cm. Spinach for the farm garden. Take care of the milkers. Bone dust as a fertilizer. Wheat in New England. Editorial: ""A New Society"" discusses new, scientific approach to agriculture. New agricultural colleges and experiment stations being developed. Initiative of American Pomological Society in meeting at Rochester.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company, ca. 1925. 9 x 15 cm. Small book contains 12 plates with full-color illustrations of plants, including Poison Hemlock, Bearded Darnell Grass, Common Ink-cap, Deadly Amanita, Henbane, Sow Thistle, Vanilla, Nightshade Bittersweet, Aconite, Yellow Monkshood, Cypress Spurge, Joe-Pye weed, Flax, Sage, Aloe, more. Includes index. Inserted in book is newspaper clipping,… Read more about this item

Gloucester, MA: Russia Cement Co, 1907. 6.4 x 13.7 cm. Little catalogue for Essex Fertilizer, Complete Manure, A1 Superphosphate, Essex XXX Fish and Potash, Orchard Fertilizer, Odorless Lawn Dressing, Tobacco Starter, Tobacco Manure. Includes testimonial letters from from farmers in Uxbridge, MA, Hubbardstown, MA, Ellington, CT, So. Deerfield, MA, Wayne, ME, Canaan, NH, Paxton, MA, Margeretville, NS and Waterville,… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Williams & Clark Fertilizer Co., 81 Fulton St, 1896. 14 x 19 cm. Fertilizer works, located on Staten Island Sound, was destroyed by fire in July, 1894, but has now been rebuilt. Booklet offers Americus brands: Fine Wrapper Tobacco grower, ammoniated bone super phosphate, potato phosphate, pure bone meal, potato and tobacco manure, strawberry fertilizer, grass… Read more about this item

University of New Hampshire, 1923. 15 x 23 cm. Booklet features photo of 30' x 30' laying house at the University Poultry plant. Considerations: Sunlight, Ventilation, Disinfection, Cost, Small windows, Nests, Broody Coop, Dry Mash Hopper, Drinking Vwessels, Litter, Droppings, Litter Carrier, Time to House, Cleaning the House. Bills of Material and plans for houses. Included in booklet… Read more about this item

Amherst, MA: Massachusetts State College, 1941. 15 x 23 cm. New varieties of blueberry bush that yield larger, sweeter berries grown from Vaccinium corymbosum. Soil requirements. Selection of varieties: Pioneer, Rubel and Wareham. Propagation. Planting. Soil Management. Pruning. Insects and Diseases. Paper booklet, marginal notes in pencil in some places, fair. . Catalogs: Farming.

New Haven, CT: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta, 1905. 15 x 23 cm. In 1904 Mr. V.L. Churchill visit 56 towns and villages and took 337 samples of feeds. These have been examined chemically and microscopically and this report contains results, including amounts of water, ash, protein, fiber, nitrogen-free extract and fat. Includes cotton seed meal, linseed meal, wheat products,… Read more about this item

Rochester, NY: Daniel Lee, 1850. 19 x 27 cm. Ladies' Department: ""Jane and John, of Farmersville"" by James Mapleton. Story of pretty Jane Grove who marries John Elmly, and how she turned out to be a wonderful, cheerful wife, still pretty, with prettiest children, neatest garden, prettiest cottage--and happiest husband, in spite of all the comments, remarks and… Read more about this item

Rochester, NY: Daniel Lee, 1850. 19 x 27 cm. Analysis of chemicals in an apple; Wheat Husbandry--Smut in wheat, cause and prevention; more about ""smut bugs""; Cure for lame hogs: wood ashes, salt, and pounded roll sulphur applied to their troughs will keep their blood in good order. Rural Architecture: ""Cottage Residences"" by Mr. Downing (A.J.) New book published… Read more about this item

Greenfield, MA: Ross & Co, 1866. 14 x 23 cm. Circular describes the new 1866 model mowing-machine, much improved and simplified since last season. Iron has been substituted for wood to avoid bulk and secure durability. Note the drive-wheels, which have ten wrought-iron spokes (Drawing provided, shows last year's pattern), ratchets, cast inside of the hub, to exclude dust… Read more about this item

Rochester, NY: Daniel Lee, 1850. 19 x 27 cm. Seymour's Grain Drill (illustration), manufactured by the inventor, P. Seymour, Esq. of East Bloomfield, NY. The first premium for a grain drill capable of depositing the fine manures with the grain was awarded to Seymour at the last state fair in Syracuse. Wheat Husbandry: Cause and Cure of Smut on… Read more about this item

West Lebanon, NH: C.H. Dana, ca. 1917. 9.4 x 20.5 cm. Advertisement for Dana's Bull Nose Punch; labels for sheep, hogs and goats; ear marking labels; Punches for sheep and hog labels; Large cattle labels. Milking tubes for sore and obstructed teats and hard milking cows. Poultry leg bands. Pilling's Instruments for cutting strictures in cow's teats. Printed testimonials.… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903. 15 x 23 cm. Why prune perfectly healthy limbs? Pruning shortens annual growth, thus reducing the distance between branches formed in successive years, so tree is more compact and symmetrical, better suited in an orchard or as an ornamental tree. Rejuvenation of old trees. Disease control. Pear-blight. Root pruning. Pinching and disbudding.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Case-Shepperd-Mann Publ. Co, 1944. 17 x 23 cm. Cover photo shows Leonard B. Geyer of Rochester NY Gas & Electric teaching 4-H Club boys about fractional horsepower motors. ""How Electricity Helped Me in 1943"" letters by Joe Jensen of Florence Station, IL; Blanche Gibson of Streator, IL and Lawrence Williams of Midlothian, TX. Paper periodical, very… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: George C. Barrett, No. 52 No. Market Street, 1834. 24 x 28 cm. Lead article discusses feeding and fattening of swine; experiment of Charlemont, MA farmer in fattening pigs; New Bake Stove, invented by Dr. Nott--requires just 3 quarts of charcoal to bake half a dozen loaves of bread. Paper periodical, tiny tears in folds. Good. .… Read more about this item

Waltham, MA: Middlesex County Farm Bureau, 1944. 18 x 23 cm. Newsletter currently named ""?????"" as publication offers $25 cash prize for new name. Cover picture shows fishing boats ""at anchor"" in Port of Gloucester. They are the boats that go out to sea to bring back a catch of fish, from which Fish Meal for Farm Bureau… Read more about this item

Augusta, ME: Homan & Badger, Publishers, 1874. 56 x 72 cm. Scheme for the relief of the Southern States by assuming their indebtedness. This matter has frequently been spoken of by southern men and has generally been treated as a joke; but there are now the strongest indications that the present Congress will be called upon to act upon… Read more about this item