Contents include: Nature and Man; Tools for Survival; Chemicals in Agriculture; Chemicals in Public Health; Chemicals and Wildlife; Effectiveness and Safety; and Questions and Answers. Appendices. Index. 64 pp. illustrated. Slight fading? foxing? along side edge. Rubbing? silverfish? along spine & joints and slightly along edges. Otherwise exterior is VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
A New Holland Grassland Handbook with information about the different clouds, weather predictions and when to continue farming. Form No. 1226 Weather 857D. 15 pp. Slight bending to bottom corner. Interior is tight, clean and in Very Good +. View More...
Some Articles: What American Zoologists have done for Evolution, by E.W. Morse. Laid in page with portrait engraving of Morse; Economy in Management of Soil, by H. E. Alvord; Prehistoric Chronology of America by D.G. Brinton; The Sonora Earthquake with illustration and Chemical Laboratory of the University of Nebraska with 5 illustrations. Front wrap detached but intact. ex-mus mailing label and numbers on front. Slightly soiled. Overall exterior is Good to Good+. interior is clean, and tight and VG+. Engraving of Morse, top border watermarked. Not on portrait. From SCIENCE, Aug. 20, 1886. View More...
Articles: Notes on the Geology of the Troad, by J.S. Diller; Occurrence of Mound-Builders Pipes in New Jersey, by Charles C. Abbott with an illustration; The Igloo of the Innuit. -III. with 9 illustrations; Minnesota Weather; Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Geology of Philadelphia by Henry Carvill Lewis; The Iroquois Book of Rites; The Evidence for evolution in the history of the extinct Mammalia with a table; A classification of the natural sciences by T. Sterry Hunt with a table; Orbit of the great comet of 1882 by Edgar Frisbie; The tornado at Racine, May 18, ... View More...
"...a guide for creating and maintaining successful development projects in rural areas of the world, based on animal agriculture, careful attention to existing ecosystems, and the unique concept of 'passing on the gift.'" Publication of Heifer Project International. 111 pp. Oversize paperback with rubbed corners and edges, crease to bottom front cover. Interior clean, tight. Book in VG+ condition. View More...
Being the eighteenth edition, revised and reset, of the pruning-book, which was first published in 1898. 407 pp. with index. Green decorative covers show signs of wear with rubbing to edges, bumped corners, and tears to top and bottom edges of spine. Front and back hinges are broken. Interior is browning from age. Previous owner's stamps on several front pages. Book in Good condition. View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service -- Bulletin 86. Issued September 30, 1911. 100 pp. 20 plates and 35 diagrams. Ex. library with stamp and identification numbers on front cover and library stamp on title page. Spine edge is browning and is creased. Small tears to top edge of back cover, and small red dot on bottom of front cover. Rest of pamphlet is clean, tight and in VG condition. View More...
Bulletin 263 (Technical), May 1939. Agricultural Experiment Station of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, State College, NM. 39 pp. Paper wraps have slightly bent corners, chipping to page edges, and rubbing to spine edge. Browning along paper edges. Interior is tight and clean. Pamphlet in VG condition. View More...
"This study is a review of prospective supplies and demands for dairy products in 1944 together with an appraisal of some of the national policies which could be followed in meeting the problems growing out of the dairy situation." 64 pp. Cream paper wraps. Browning along cover edges, some dirt smudges on front cover and along spine. Interior clean. Pamphlet in VG condition. View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 86. "The Division of Botany has for the last three years been collecting general and specific information concerning poisonous plants, both from general works and special articles and by experimental investigation." 32 pp. Staple-bound paper pamphlet. Missing covers. Wear to cover edges and corners, pages dirty and soiled, initials written in pencil on top of front page. Interior pages are clean. Pamphlet in Good to Good+ condition. View More...
"It is the purpose of this book to aid the farmer in the establishment, care, and utilization of such small patches or plantations of timber as may be maintained in connection with the farm." 343 pages with index. Green decorative covers with images of corn, hay, and farm equipment on front cover, and gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges and joints rubbed (some areas of exposed boards), spine tips are bent and fraying. Cocked spine. Previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. Interior is tight and clean. Book in Good+ condition. View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Plant Industry -- Bulletin No. 28. Issued January 17, 1903. 36 pp. Fifteen b/w plates. Brown paper wraps. Ex. museum stamp and identification numbers on front cover. Paper wraps are lightly browning along edges, some chipping. Spine ends are torn and exposed. Front cover pulling away from rest of document. Interior clean. View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Plant Industry -- Bulletin No. 191. Issued October 22, 1910. "This report shows how the vigor and fertility of hybrids may be utilized to increase the yield of the corn crop, in addition to other factors of adaptation and breeding." 45 pp. Brown paper wraps. Ex. museum stamp and identification numbers on front cover, stamp on front free endpaper. Darkening along cover edges, lower corner is creased and creasing/bending run through most of first pages. Interior is tight and clean. Pamphlet in VG condition. View More...
Botanical Investigations and Experiments. Issued October 1, 1903. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry -- Bulletin No. 49. 86 pp. 18 b/w plates. Brown paper covers with browning along edges, some chipping to edges and wear to corners, spine is creased and torn, spine ends rubbed. Ex. museum with stamp and identification numbers on front cover. Interior clean, a few foxing spots. Document in VG- condition. View More...
From Volume 83 of "Memoirs & Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Session 1938-39. " The investigation reported here is an attempt to compare by means of mechanical, chemical and mineralogical analysis the effect of different weathering conditions on the development of two soil profiles formed from similar parent material. Both soils have developed from granite, in Malacca and in Cumberland respectively." pp.117-127. most pages uncut. Pale blue covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Fine. 5 tables. View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin 1983. "This bulletin tells how to have good ponds. It explains how to manage such ponds to assure rapid production of an ample supply of fish. It points out the importance of selecting suitable sites, building good dams and spillways, and protecting ponds from flood and erosion. It tells how to stock the pond with fish. These things insure a lasting pond that may be fished many times a year." 29 pp. White paper covers with image of fish on front. Cover edges are faded and worn, corners bumped, soiling to back cover. Minor chipping to l... View More...
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry. -- Bulletin 120. "The experiments recorded in this paper have grown out of the work in connection with European varieties of soft cheese, which has been in progress for several years at Storrs, Conn., in cooperation between the Storrs Experiment Sation and this Bureau." 70 pp. Brown paper covers. Paper covers have chipping along edges, particularly to back cover, back cover top and bottom corner is torn and missing, edges are darkened, spine ends are torn. Ex. museum stamp and identification numbers on front cover, stamp on tit... View More...
Rural Text-Book Series. Rubbing to spine ends/joints, front/back edges and corners. Overall Good. Owner's name on front endp. Open at front hinge from base up 1"and totally broken from blank p. before title p. to Contents xiii ( as if chewed?) After that text is tight, clean and in VG condition. Back hinge solid. View More...
United States Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Circular No. 98, April 1927. 71 pp. Olive green paper covers with black lettering on front. Cover corners and edges slightly rubbed, top corner is bumped and creased throughout document, minor soiling and dirt smudges to cover faces, spine ends bumped. Interior pages clean, no marks. Document in VG- condition. View More...
Seed and Plant Introduction and Distribution. Issued July 3, 1903. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry -- Bulletin No. 43. 34 pp. Eight b/w plates. Brown paper wraps with browning along edges, chipping to cover edges and spine ends, and small tear to spine. Ex. museum with stamp and identification numbers on front cover. Cover pulling away from rest of document. Top page corner is creased. Interior clean. Document is VG-. View More...
