Hardcover
1908 · Washington DC
by Hill, George William (editor in chief)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: use of alcohol and gasoline in farm engines, leguminous crops for green manuring, method of eradicating Johnson grass, profitable tenant dairy farm, celery, spraying for apple diseases and codling moth in the Ozarks, insect and fungus enemies of the grape East of Rocky mountains, advantage of planting heavy cotton seed, comparative value of whole cotton seed and cotton seed meal in fertilizing cotton, poultry management, nonsaccharine sorgums, beans, cotton bollworm, evaporation of apples, cost of filling silos, use of fruit as food, farm practice in Columbia basin uplands, potatoes and other root crops as food, methods of destroying rats, food value of corn and corn products, diversified farming under the plantation system, some important grasses and forage plants for gulf coast region, and experiment stations XXXIX - XLI. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Minor wear to edges and hinges of boards. Clean interior with illustrations. An attractive book. Each bulletin has its own pagination. SCI/022219. (Inventory #: 32937)