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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.

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Ploughman, 1908. 27 x 40 cm. Photo of world's champion Ayrshire cow, 15,072 pounds of milk with 751 pounds of butter. Literature reviews. Cure for epilepsy: Miles Nervine adv. Latest scare is the cancer parasite in produce. Butter is higher. Paper periodical, 4 cm. Closed tear in front page at fold. Good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1936. 15 x 23 cm. Economic importance of apple blotch; distribution; description; life history of the fungus; relative susceptibility of apple varieties; Bordeaux mixture; Lime-sulphur solution; spreaders. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1940. 15 x 23 cm. Appearance and characteristics of scald; Effect of orchard conditions; Scald control by oiled paper. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

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 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 manure, and more. Includes photos and testimonial letters for fine results from potato fertilizer, Americus for big corn, fine wrapper tobacco grower, and more. Includes calendar for 1896. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

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 and dirt. Note also the Knife-bar head and connecting rod pin. Price for a one-horse or Pony Clipper Mower, 3 1/2 ft. cut, 30 in. wheel is $120. Also included is a one-page set of directions for setting up the ""Clipper"" of 1866. Paper leaflet, 4 pp. show picture of mower, slight tears in folds, fair; one-page Directions are worn with several tiny holes in sheet, 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, bran from winter wheat, and spring wheat; middlings from winter wheat. Ground corn cobs are a material of greatly inferior feeding value. Also Maize meal,corn flour, gluten meals, gluten feed, germ meal, hominy meal, hominy chop, rye feed, malt sprouts, dried distillery grains. Dried distillery grains contain three times as much protein as cereal grains. There is no data on excessive inebriation of cattle after eating distillery grains. Paper booklet, back wrap has small closed tear, wrap shows brown from aging, good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1926. 15 x 23 cm. Aphids in general; apple aphids; quince aphids; pear aphids attacking the foliage; plum aphids; cherry aphids; currant and gooseberry aphids; control measures. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Albany, NY: Luther Tucker and Son, 1894. 27 x 38 cm. Rotation of crops; CT tobacco crop; At Brockville, ON Nov. 27 1894 James Quigg, 70 married a girl of 16; Abortion in cows--what to do. Pig that goes sidewise; Nervous mare. Paper periodical, some tears at folds. Good. . Catalogs: Farming.

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. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Bangor, ME: D.M. Hall, Editor and Proprietor, 1882. 34 x 50 cm. Folksy paper; humor about marital bliss; Mr. Barnum' s new elephant; English children distressed that Jumba is leaving London with Mr. Barnum. Ensilage discussed. Newspaper, uncut, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

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 way to pick poultry by Jophn H. Lunn. A Member reports on Hybrid Corns by Thomas Schreiber. You can get more alfalfa hay from well-fed soil: ad for Eastern States Cooperative Fertilizer Service. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

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 good. . Catalogs: Farming.

New York, NY: Reuben H. Donnelly Corp, 1957. 17 x 24 cm. Adv. For Foodarama '57 refrigerator by Kelvinator; Ben-Hur Chest Freezer. Tiered Duct Hay Drying. Use Sprinkler Irrigation. Low Cost Feed Handling.Prepare now for wet harvest days--standby drying equipment wilol eliminate some of the gamble in small grain storage. Handless egg gathering. Hydro-cooled corn sells for more. Paper periodical, cover shows farm family at table in kitchen. . Catalogs: Farming.

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, NS. Paper booklet, only one page of memo portion was used. Very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

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 by Appleton & Co. provides 500 pages, beautifully printed on fine paper, with over 300 engravings. Design for Small Cottage is reproduced with illustration and ground plan in this issue. Cost to build this dwelling, with cellar, on the Hudson is about $400, in Rochester, $330. [Note that copies of this book are available in 2006, for about $300.00.] Professor Johnston's Lectures on Agriculture. A copy of his lectures , 220 pages, nicely bound and well printed, sells for 75 cents in cloth, 50 cents in paper. Ladies' Department: A Good Garden is Essential to Good Living. Paper periodical with name ""O. Chase"" written on top of front page.… Read More

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 predictions of others. Design for a suburban residence, with engraving and diagram. Design by W.M. McConnell of Rochester for James Harris, the well known landscape painter. Estimate cost of building $1500. Patent portable rail-road horse power and threshing machine (drawing) price for one-horse machine $120, for two-horse machine, $150. Paper periodical, front page (pp. 1-2) loose. Paper browned, edges frayed, poor. . Catalogs: Farming.

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 Wheat. Transmutation of wheat to chess. Gapes in chickens is caused by want of attention to cleanliness and comfort-- wet or il-ventilated fowl-houses, ill feeding and bad water. Devon Bull ""Holkam"" (illustration) bred by A. Bronson, Esq. of Oneida County, NY. A Remedy for Ignorance--writer chastises another writer who criticizes Genesee Farmer for publishing scientific analyses of soil chemistry. Swine. Nice discussion of hogs sent by Duke of Bedford in England to Gen. Washington; however Washington never received them, because and Englishman named Parkinson, who brought them to America, dishonestly sold them. They turned out as ""Woburn"" or ""Bedford""… Read More

Augusta, ME: The Maine Farmer, 1860. 54 x 68 cm. Another large cotton factory to be built at Lewiston, ME. Use of salt as a fertilizer. Home education. Niagara Falls surpassed. Newspaper, edges slightly frayed, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.