Annual Report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture (1866-1922) [with] Annual Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station (1879-1895) [with] Annual Report of the Storrs School Agricultural Experimental Station, Storrs, Conn (1888-1896) [Forty-three Volumes]

Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1922. First editions. Cloth. Most copies very good. Ex-library, call numbers blacked out, bookplates on pastedowns and a few other small interior stamps. Spines sunned on some of the earlier volumes, occasional spotting to edges, faint dampstain to the edge of a few volumes, most notable towards the end of volume 2, scattered foxing, but nearly all volumes tight, clean and unmarked. A nice set.. Illus. with b/w reproductions, drawings, photos, and figures. 8vo. A nearly complete run from the first report of the Board in 1866 to 1922 (lacking 1896, 1907-11, 1914, 1918-1920). From 1879 to 1895, the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station report, and from 1888 to 1896, the Storrs School report ,were bound together with the Board report (as well as issued separately). Overall thus 72 volumes in 43. An important record of agriculture, agricultural thought, agricultural practices, and agricultural influences in Connecticut from the close of the Civil War to the just after the First World War.