WE FARM FOR A HOBBY - and Make It Pay by Tetlow, Henry - 1945

New York: Armed Services Editions, 1945. 256 pp. Armed Services Edition T-11. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the front cover and spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Problem - The People - The Place; Pitfalls of Accountancy; The Expectation of Plenty; Farm Drudgery: A Myth; Where to Find Out How; Making Plans That Work; Must You Keep a Cow; Poultry: A Success Story; Where Pigs Is Profits; The Garden and the Orchard; Planning Side Line Produce; The Household Chores; A Babbled of Green Fields; Selling the By-Product; Some Conclusive Comparisons; and On Medlock Farm. For anyone who doesn't know the Armed Services Editions, these were softcover books that were printed from 1943 to 1946 by the Council on Books in Wartime. They were distributed to American servicemen during World War II and a great many of them are in such rough condition because they were carried in the packs of soldiers around the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. All were complete books, not digests, and featured a wide array of subjects. The Council's slogan during the war was "Books are weapons in the war of ideas.". First Printing - First Thus. Paperback. Good Only. Book.