Category: Agriculture

Flowering Time, Climate and Genotype

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Australia, Melbourne University Press : 1974

Seller ID: 63102463

ISBN-13: 9780522840711

Condition: Very Good

193 pages. Examines the adaptation of agricultural species to climate through flowering responses. Intended primarily for agronomists and the advanced student of agricultural science but will enlighten the interested general reader as well. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for small signature atop title page. Minor lean to spine. Bright green boards. Brilliant gilt lettering upon spine. Several closed tears to dust jacket with several chips missing. Nice copy overall.
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Fox Ranching in Canada

By: Allen, J.A.; Smith, G. Ennis

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, Dominion of Canada, Department of Agriculture : 1929

Seller ID: 631c5026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

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
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Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, July 1951 - How Hard Can You Corn a Farm?

By: Annett, R. Ross; MAyse, Arthur; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1951

Seller ID: 301h2261

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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...
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Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, November (Nov.) 1952 - How to Know More About your Land

By: Annixter, Paul; Carter, Hodding; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1952

Seller ID: 301h2247

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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...
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Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, January (Jan.) 1952 - Low-Cost Dairying

By: Annixter, Paul; Mansfield, Margery; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1952

Seller ID: 301h2256

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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 ...
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One Hundred Harvests - Research Branch, Agriculture Canada 1886-1986: Historical Series No. 27

By: Anstey, T.H.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Government of Canada : 1986

Seller ID: 41502285

ISBN-13: 9780660120362

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

432 pages including index. "A book about Canada and its development, about brave and dedicated men and women, and their successes in the face of adversity. It is about motivators of agriculture - federal ministers and their research teams of scientists and support staff - who have brought a wealth of technology to Canadian farmers and the agri-food industry. Celebrates a century of research into soil management, crop and animal production, protection, utilization, food quality, and food processing." - from Foreward. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.
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Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, October (Oct.) 1952 - The Wild and Free Mustangs (Horses)

By: Athanas, Verne; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1952

Seller ID: 301h2248

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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...
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Country Gentleman - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - April (Apr.) 1950: I Farm in the Moon

By: Athanas, Verne; Knox, Joe; Constiner, Merle; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1950

Seller ID: 301h2274

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

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...
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Country Gentleman Magazine - The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living, June 1951 - Better Ways to Handle Grain

By: Athanas, Verne; Mayse, Arthur; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1951

Seller ID: 301h2262

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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...
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Country Gentleman, The Magazine for Better Farming, Better Living - February (Feb.) 1951: Does Butter Have a Future?

By: Athanas, Verne; Stuart, Jesse; Shaftel, George Armin; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1951

Seller ID: 301h2265

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

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...
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Promise in the Land: Sustaining Our Agriculture - VHS Video Tape in Case

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, UBC : 1995

Seller ID: 152a8398

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

VHS video tape. Running Time 57 minutes. Average wear. Usual library markings
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Soil Saving Dams - Built with Concrete

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $69.95

Publisher: USA, Portland Cement Association : 1927

Seller ID: 631g0669

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

12 pages. Possibly printed in 1927 per back cover. Numerous interesting black and white photos and detailed black and white diagrams. Makes a strong case for farmers to build concrete dams to preserve their all-important topsoild. An informative vintage publication.
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The Handyman's Handbook

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $69.95

Publisher: USA, Publisher Not Stated : 1935

Seller ID: 642c9701

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

40 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1930s. Presents very practical and now nostalgic wood projects for the homeowner, including detailed drawings. Of these, the most interesting are the poultry house, milk house, ice well, cattle breeding rack, back yard chicken ranch, and hog loading chute. The dimensioned diagram of the ice well is particularly interesting as it shows how winter ice can be preserved for a summer ice supply in rural areas with no other means of refrigeration. Ink stamps of a Manitoba lumber business on front cover. Occasional soiling. Moderate wear. Binding tigh...
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Weeds and Their Control - Bulletin No. 106 - Province of British Columbia

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Victoria BC, Province of British Columbia : 1932

Seller ID: 631a4594

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

54 pages. Colour plates. Describes dozens of B.C weeds. Some writing on front cover else unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound.
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"Grow B.C." - a Teacher's Handbook on British Columbia's Agriculture, Fish and Food Business

By: B.C. Government

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Province of B.C. : 1994

Seller ID: 152a9554

ISBN-13: 9780772622747

Binding: Spiral-Bound

Condition: Good

195 pages. Glossary. Contact List. Illustrated. Provides an excellent overview of the food production industries in B.C. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy.
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The Living Soil - Evidence of the Importance to Human Health of Soil Vitality, with Special Reference to National Planning

By: Balfour, E.B.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The Devin-Adair Company : 1948

Seller ID: 631h4280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

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...
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Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, September (Sept.) 1949: Is Bankruptcy Our Goal?

By: Banning, Margaret Culkin; Kelland, Clarence Budington; Knox, Joe

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Curtis Pub Co : 1949

Seller ID: 301h2280

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

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...
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Image for The Economic Development of Ceylon - Report of a Mission Organized By the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the Request of the Government of Ceylon - Complete in Two Volumes

The Economic Development of Ceylon - Report of a Mission Organized By the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the Request of the Government of Ceylon - Complete in Two Volumes

By: Baranyai, Leopold; Biaggi, Francantonio; De Fargues, Jean R.; Ellsworth, Paul T.; Gilmartin, William M.; Godwin, Francis W.; Kruithof, Arie; Luttman-Johnson, John D.M.; Mehta, Amolak R.; Phillips, John F.V.

Price: $499.95

Publisher: Ceylon, Ceylon Government Press : 1952

Seller ID: 871g2216

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

83 plus 448 pages. Twenty-four maps. Many dozens of tables, charts and graphs. Prepared by request of the Government of Ceylon to survey the development potentialities of the country with special consideration given to: Agriculture (particularly rice cultivation, mixed farming, dairying, colonization and resettlement), Irrigation, Fisheries, Forestry, Minerals, Power, Industrial development, Inland transport and shipping, vocational training, Health (including housing and water schemes), General Economics (including public finance, money and banking, savings and investment, balance of payme...
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Image for $2000 a Year on Fruits and Flowers; or My Ten-Rod Farm and How I Became a Florist - to Which is Added $550 a Year from the Strawberry Garden, Farming By Inches and with Brains. The Flower Garden and How to Manage it

$2000 a Year on Fruits and Flowers; or My Ten-Rod Farm and How I Became a Florist - to Which is Added $550 a Year from the Strawberry Garden, Farming By Inches and with Brains. The Flower Garden and How to Manage it

By: Barnard, Charles

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, John E. Potter and Company : 1895

Seller ID: 445c5787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

345 + 76 pages plus several pages of advertisements. Undated but appears to be circa late 1800s. Front hinge open. Front board holding by backstrip only. Above-average wear. Reading copy only. Despite these defects, what a wonderful inspiration this vintage book this will be for someone looking for a new career, closer to home, and to nature.
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Oats - Wild and Cultivated : A Monograph of the Genus Avena L. (Poaceae) - Monograph 14

By: Baum, Bernard R. (Signed)

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Canada, Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Department (Dept.) Of Agriculture, Research Branch : 1977

Seller ID: 152g4425

ISBN-13: 9780660005133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

463 pages, 331 figures, most in black and white, and 17 tables. Signed and inscribed upon title page by author to noted botanist, Roy L. Taylor, whose bookplate is affixed to front free endpaper. "Based mainly on the dissection of many Avena specimens for the study of micromorphological characters. This tedious and painstaking effort was necessary in order to discover many aspects of the organization and variation in Avena. This method also resulted in the detection of discontinuities in that variation." - from Preface. Printed upon glossy stock. Institutional date stamp upon front free ...
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Category: Agriculture