42 pages. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. Above-average but not excessive wear. Hard cover library binding with usual markings. A sound copy of this practical and interesting work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Fox Husbandry Ranching Distemper Big Head View More...
96 pages. Features: How hard can you corn a farm?; Storage miracle for root crops; Drought, varmints and rollbacks; Easier hay handling; Strawberry-patch revival; He's beating summer droughts; Better machines for better farming; Crazy about Kids (fiction); The Raiders (conclusion). Ads; Tide detergent; GMC trucks; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Lester Trogdon and Frank G. Boles near Liberal, KS; Willys Jeep ad with 4 photos; Ford tractor; Nice 7up color ad shows family on lawn with ice cream floats; Ford cars (color); International Harvester - featuring their national parts network; Case "Va... View More...
148 pages. Features: The candidates speak to farmers - Ike & Stevenson; Your barn can work for you; Charlie Burton's field day; Turkey profits next year; Know more about your land; Fee-lot timesavers; Warning; Don't lose half your alfalfa seed!; New Markets for crops; Their cows are roughage 'hogs'; 'Never-fail' beef-herd builder; New disease threatens oat yields; New market for whole milk; Horns of Plenty (fiction). Ads include: Studebaker trucks (color, inside front cover); 1952 Buick; Champion spark plug features Carl Thorp, brother Ernest and C.W. Thorp who farm near Clinton, IL; Ford tr... View More...
100 pages. Features: An eye on the market; Feeders for 18 cents a pound; Should you wash eggs?; Here's low-cost dairying; Corn combines speed the harvest; Quick-change wagon; Save labor in the home; A Christmas Call (fiction); The King's Pear Tree (fiction). Ads: Allis-Chalmers (color inside front cover); Rexall (with Amos 'n' Andy); Champion spark plugs ad features Kenneth Cooke of Malabar Farm near Mansfield, OH; Natural Rubber Burea ad shows armed Malayan guard at rubber plantation; 1952 Pontiac; Case Tractors - showing the 'VAC' model; Nice two-page color-photo ad for New Holland forage ... View More...
168 pages. Features: Cover photo of Maurice Lawson of Warren County, Indiana; You can earn more of the food dollar; The case for Eisenhower; The case for Stevenson; Do broilers fet your farm?; Farming for Insoak keeps water where it belongs - Jess Dewees of Clinton, Oklahoma; They shorten dairy chores; The wild and free mustangs; Urea helps stalks and cobs make low-cost beef; A laborsaving crib; Moving corn with power; Winter Oats move northward; Improved rambouillet best for U.S.; Better nests - cleaner eggs; Tractors with superpower - great photo of Elmer Horn of Kirby, Ohio,and his articul... View More...
188 pages. Features: Signposts toward super yields; Scrob cows good-bye - artificial insemination; "Like to Ride with Daddy" - farm safety; California's new Millions; Clover Seed Can be a Cash Crop; Dyed-In-The-Wool Ranchers - the John Norton's of Montana's Gallatin Valley; I Farm in the Moon; That Laborsaving Tractor Lift; Making good land better; Now the aminals tell us; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Country Gentleman - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - April (Apr.) 1950: I Farm in the Moon Barbara Ann M... View More...
140 pages. Features: The farmer's side of it; Roughage self-feeders cut chores; Poultry dogs; Milk pails for sharecroppers; The plow outbids the sword in Asia; Better ways to handle grain; He hitched his tractor to a star - Forrest Davis of Florida; Legumes that won't 'run out'; Two ounces per acre stops the 'Hoppers' cold; Cane pole or fly rod?; The Conestoga Bells (fiction); The Raiders (part 3 of 4). Ads: Texaco ad with photo of Joe Acosta of Mission, TX and Merle Noble and James Howschultz who farm near Blencoe, IA; Oldsmobile super '88'; Hudson car (beautiful one page in color); Nice on... View More...
148 pages. Features: Does butter have a future?; Bulls to make more beef with less feed; A house to keep pace with your life; Soil tillers - weed killers; Calves are getting better care; Little farm, bountiful life; Record weights at weaning time; Helping others helps us; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Country Gentleman, The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - February (Feb.) 1951: Does Butter Have a Future? Peter Kautz D.C. McCornack St. Charles Illinois Duane Auer Eldorado Kansas Buick Lloyd Alexande... View More...
270 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. First U.S. edition. "Since its first [British] printing in 1943 this work is now established as a scientific classic in soil biology and fertility relationships. Completely revised and up-to-date. A fascinating read and foundation stone for an agricultural library, a book needed by every gardener and farmer." - dust jacket. Moderate quantity of ball pen markings to contents and inside back board. Moderate foxing to edges and endpapers. Average wear to publisher's chestnut cloth. Binding intact. Moderate wear to dust... View More...
160 pages. Features: Is bankruptcy our goal?; Unwanted wheat acres; Modern pastures outyield grain; Profits from pipelines; Children and chicks - Arch Thompson and family of the Ozarks in northwest Arkansas; Double your money with lambs; Feed pigs light for a while; "He's a sight for making things" - Glen Crumley of Route One, Bristol, Tennessee; Save grain storage; Frying-pan turkeys - Chester Housh and Baker Jones in the Shenandoah Valley near Elkton; Texaco ad features photos of California's Long's Date Gardens and its manager, John Conover; Maxwell House coffee ad features nice illustrati... View More...
84 pages. 23 x 16cm. Many black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Feature Fold - Iddesleigh; The Famous Highland Drove; No Decline in Scotland's Native Breed; The Breed That's Not Just a Pretty Face; Pictorial Highlights; News and Articles from Canada; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. View More...
148 pages. Features: They take care of their own - Mormons supporting each other; Big litters are not accident; Crates will save your pigs; Fresh grass for your winter feed; Double check on the hens; Turkey every day; The Saga of Oak Orchard Creek - Four generations of the Brown family made Orchard Dale Fruit Farm one of New York's finest, near Waterport in Orleans County - article with great color photos (small clipping from one of the photos); Bringing back abandoned land; Better fire protection is up to you; The men behind your market news; Corncobs to to fatten beef; Photo of violin-makin... View More...
"Most of the 104 grasses described and illustrated in this book are native species that grow on the rangelands of the Prairie Provinces of Canada. Several have been introduced from other countries and they are grown for hay and pasture on cultivated land. A few are persistent weeds in grainfields and pastures. Some are abundant throughout the prairie region; others grow only in narrowly defined habitats. Many are valuable forage species in southern British Columbia, Eastern Canada, and Northern United States, as well as in Prairie Provinces. It is often necessary to identify a grass before... View More...
104 pages. Features: .Great colour photo ad for Chevrolet Trucks inside front cover; New Holland forage harvester ad featuring their Flo-Trac feed; Nice Buick ad; Great colour one-page ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes; Photo of Footballer Bobby Layne is featured in a Prest-o-lite battery ad; Nice color-photo one-page ad for International Harvester tractors features their Farmall Fast-Hitch; Let's eally Sell Milk; How to stay in the Beef business with Brood Cows and Feeder Cattle; Is Your Pond a Money Maker?; International Trade Makes You Prosperous; Jabez and the Devil's Seat; Careful Credit ca... View More...
84 pages. 23 x 16cm. Many black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Thoughts from Abroad; Highlanders in Sweden; Floreat Dun Dubh Dunelmia; The Famous Highland Beef; Trelissick Fold - New Zealand; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. View More...
108 pages. Features: They're Wrecking Soil Conservation; Farrowing Ideas You Can Use; Springboard to Farm Ownership; New Insecticide Stops Rootworm; Golden Bough of Christmas; Carry Your Pasture to the Cows; Your Land Can Give More; Save $1 per Hog with Less Protein; Wonder Sorghums with Drug System; Step Saving in a Stanchion Barn. Ads include: Allis-Chalmers Roto-Baler - color photo (ahead of its time?) 1952 Buick; Texaco ad features Charles C. Hoover of Medford, OR, Walter Sylvester of Battle Creek, MI, and Bill Stephens of Sheldon, TX (tiny clipping from this ad); Champion spark plug ad ... View More...
144 pages. Features: What about price supports?; Easier ways to handle corn; Roughage capacity; Save your beans; Pig hatcheries are here to stay; a plan for low-cost grade A milk; Keeping out of mortgage trouble; Wet-weather implements; Apply nitrogen now for extra profits; More beef from dry-land pasture; Better pasture with less cost and work; Machines dig their silage; They seed in standing corn; Six-Man football in Salem, New York, with photos including coach Bob Kana. Shopping with the Baugh family at Rucker-Rosenstock's, a department store in Petersburg, VA. Ads include: Nice color St... View More...
120 pages. Features: What to do about social security; Low-cost lamb feeding; Dollars from pullet flocks; Paint will protect you; Silage goes underground; Tougher than sassafras sprouts - Leo Nussbaum and family of the Missouri Ozarks; Old glory takes to sea; Better chicks for meat production; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Middle four leaves loose but present. A worthy vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Country Gentleman, The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - January (Jan.) 1951: What Farmers Should Know About Social Security Allis-Chalmers ... View More...
160 pages. Features: Grass silage facts; a shot of nitrogen for your crops?; ten tips to protect your flock; Journeying into America; Top feeders in a fat-cattle state - The Schmidt brothers of Clinton County, Iowa; I saw East Asia's unrest - John Strohm travelled to India, Indo-China and Malaya; Four Corn Belt Neighbors pool labor and equipment - Rusty Peddicord, Mickey Parr, Clint Peddicord, Floyd Long and Ken Peddicord; The way to maintain prosperity; "Swine Courts" control the hogs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad on back cover features Metropolitan Opera Star Nadine Conner; and more.... View More...
184 pages. Features: Photo of twins Myra and Mary Long of Sheldon, IL; Texaco ad with Clarence Calrson of near Marshalltown, IA who plants corn with electricity; B.F. Goodrich ad features H.B. Johnson and Son citrus farm in Escondido, CA; Hybrid corn goes high-protein; Good-bye butcher bulls; Sell through a roadside stand; "That's Something Jim Developed" - James Fairbank, extension engineer at the College of Agriculture of the University of California at Davis; Rear-Engine Tractors; Calling All Animals; A new milk-pricing system; The Brubakers of Lancaster County - great color-photo-illustr... View More...
