Category: Agriculture

Dry Land: Man and Plants.

By: Adams, Robert; Adams, Marina; Willens, Alan; Willens, Ann.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, (1979). First Edition, Review Copy.

Seller ID: 14089kms

Quarto, blue leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, vii, 152 pp. Good+, with soiling to page edges, neat former-owner stamps, former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper, in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From jacket: Over a quarter of the world's surface is arid or semi-arid, and there are fears that this total may increase sharply as the result of climatic change and growing pressures from an expanding and hungry world population. Urgent needs have led man himself to contribute alarmingly to the continuous depletion of the stock of usable lands through unconsidered exploitation: fe...
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The Cotton Man. Notes on the Life and Times of Wofford B. (ÔBill') Camp. With a Foreword by Paul S. Smith.

By: Briggs, William J. and Henry Cauthen.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina, 1983.

Seller ID: 4078s

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by William J. Briggs. Octavo, red and tan cloth, gilt letters, xiv, 341 pp. Illus. Biography of a man who revolutionized California agriculture in the early twentieth century. Very Good+ with very light foxing to page edges.
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Growing Greenhouse Tomatoes in Ohio. [SB-19].

By: Brooks, William M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Ohio State University Cooperative Extension Service, n.d.

Seller ID: ess4644

Quarto, paperbound (stiff, stapled, full-color photo. illus. light green wrappers), 46 pp. Near-Fine, with slight rubbing to covers and very light foxing (age darkened spotting). Content Headings: Locating a Greenhouse; Selecting and Constructing the Greenhouse; Glass Substitutes; Heating; Varieties (Cultivars); Seedage; Sanitation; Plant Growing; Cropping Plans; Soluble Salts; Soil Testing; Soil Management ahead of Planting; pH and Lime; Planting the Crop; Major Elements (Macronutrients); Defects, Disorders and Plant Characteristics; Minor Elements (Micronutrients); Effects of Steaming the...
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Here Are 40 Golden Acres on The Semi-Solid System of Raising Hogs.

By: Consolidated Products Company.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Danville, Illinois: Consolidated Products Company, 1949.

Seller ID: mfs14

12mo, paperbound (stapled yellow illus. wrappers), 47 pp. Very Good+, with hole punch through upper left-hand corner & lightly rubbed edges. Content headings include: Should the Hog Industry Be Specialized?; A New Idea in Hog Raising: The Semi-Solid System; Feeding Your Sows and Gilts before Breeding; Selecting Your Gilts; Feeding Your Boar; Selecting Your Boar; Breeding Time Management; Feeding Your Sows During Gestation; Management During Gestation; Feeding Your Sows at Farrowing Time; Management at Faroowing Time; Feeding Your Sows During LActation; Feeding Your Baby Pigs; Managing Your ...
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1890. Crocker Fertilizer & Chemical Co. Manufacturers of Honest Fertilizers [Cover title].

By: Crocker Fertilizer & Chemical Co.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Buffalo, NY: Crocker Fertilizer & Chemical Co., 1890.

Seller ID: 51559bd

Duodecimo, stiff illustrated wrappers, 52, [x] pp. First forty pages promote the company's products and suggest proper usage for various crops; next twelve pages are for use as a memorandum; final ten pages are for accounting. Covers depict the manufacturing site, and the agricultural use of the company's ÒhonestÓ product. Near-Fine. Illustrated.
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The Day of the Bonanza: A History of Bonanza Farming in the Red River Valley of the North.

By: Drache, Hiram M.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1964.

Seller ID: 00302s

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), x, 239 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear and slight age darkening. Illustrated with photos, tables, maps. Contents: Foreword; Preface; List of Tables; Developments Leading to the North Dakota Bonanza; The Northern Pacific Land Grant with its Influence Upon Land Speculation; James B. Power and the Rise of the Bonanza Farms; Bonanza Farms: General Operations; Crops and Livestock on the Bonanza Farms; The Amenia and Sharon Land Company: Formation, Land Policy and Operation; The Amenia and Sharon Land C...
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Weeds of the North Central States. North Cenral Regional Publication No. 36. Circular 718 of the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station.

By: Editorial Subcommittee of the Regional Technical Committee of Project NC-10.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular 718, February, 1954. Revised Octaober, 1960.

Seller ID: 00730scs

Octavo, softbound, 262 pp. Fine. Contents: Introduction; Descriptions of Weeds; Keys for Identifying Weeds; Glossary; Index to Families; Index to Species.
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Fig Growing in the South Atlantic and Gulf States.

By: Gould, H. P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture, (1935). Farmers' Bulletin No. 1031, revised edition.

Seller ID: 335406gl

Octavo, pictorial self-wrappers, stapled, 34 pp. Photos. Fine.
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Steam Tractors. [Motorbooks International Farm Tractor Color History].

By: Halberstadt, Hans.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Motorbooks, (1996).

Seller ID: 9937gcs

Quarto, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illustrated white wrappers), 128 pp. Near Fine. From lower cover: The very first farm tractors were powered by massive steam engines and pulled by teams of horses. They required a full crew of workers to stoke the engine with wood, straw or coal and tend to the water pressure. Famous makers of these steam tractors included Case, Deere, Caterpillar, Best Manufacturing Co., Avery, Advance Thresher and Advance-Rumley Co. With the arrival of the gasoline-powered tractor, a farmer could do the work himself, and steamers were suddenly obsolete. Toda...
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The International Plant Propagators' Society Combined Proceedings, Volume 39, 1989.

By: Hartmann, Hudson T.; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The International Plant Propagators' Society, 1989.

Seller ID: qms1703

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 640 pp. Fine.
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The International Plant Propagators' Society Combined Proceedings, Volume 41, 1991.

By: Heuser, Charles W., Jr.; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The International Plant Propagators' Society, 1991.

Seller ID: qms1702

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 640 pp. Fine.
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The International Plant Propagators' Society Combined Proceedings, Volume 44, 1994.

By: Heuser, Charles W., Jr.; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The International Plant Propagators' Society, 1994.

Seller ID: qms1701

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 640 pp. Fine.
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The International Plant Propagators' Society Combined Proceedings, Volume 43, 1993.

By: Heuser, Charles W.; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The International Plant Propagators' Society, 1993.

Seller ID: qms1704

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 640 pp. Fine.
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Watkins Dependable Stock and poultry Preparations Will Help Increase Your Profit.

By: J. R. Watkins Co.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Newark, N.J.: The J. R. Watkins Co., n.d. [ca. 1940.]

Seller ID: m2347

Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled, 36 pp. Photos, illustrations throughout. Good.
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400 Years of Service: The Story of the Wholesale Tobacco Industry and its Pioneers. With a Foreword by Honorable Charles Sawyer, U. S. Secretary of Commerce.

By: Kolodny, Joseph.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, (1953). This is a special limited edition autographed by the author. No. 197.

Seller ID: els2727

Octago, tan & brown cloth (hardcover), paper spine label, 309 pp. Near-Fine, with light soiling to spine label.
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Ornamental Grasses for the Southeast.

By: Loewer, Peter.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Nashville, TN: Cool Springs Press, [2004].

Seller ID: 70085s

Large square octavo, softbound (full-color illus. wrappers), 192 pp. Fine (As New). Full-color photo illus. Ò...An accurate, accessible guide to growing grasses in your garden.Ó Explains the planting, care, and design uses of grasses; Describes over 125 species and cultivars, including both the popular and the unusual; Features full-color photographs and beautiful, detailed illustrations by the author.
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Advances in Pest Control Research, Volume IV.

By: Metcalf, R. L.; Editor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Interscience Publishers, 1962. Review Copy, with publisher's note laid-in.

Seller ID: els4780

Octavo, light orange cloth (hardcover), brown spine label, 347 pp. Former-owner's published newspaper review pasted to rear endpaper; otherwise, Very Good, with neat former-owner stamp & signature; in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. Contents: Some Fundamental Aspects of Applied Insect Pathology (Irvin M. Hall); Synthetic Pyrethroids (W. F. Barthel); Selective Toxicity of Insecticides (R. D. O'Brien); Potentiation of the Toxicity of Organophosphorus Compounds (Kenneth P. DuBois); Chemical Control of Insect Pests of Domestic Animals (William M. Ragoff); Res...
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Advances in Pest Control Research, Volume V.

By: Metcalf, R. L.; Editor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Interscience Publishers, 1962. Review Copy, with publisher's bookplate naming it such.

Seller ID: els4779

Octavo, light orange cloth (hardcover), brown spine label, 329 pp. Former-owner's published newspaper review pasted to rear endpaper; otherwise, Very Good, with neat former-owner stamp & signature; in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. Contents: The Impact of Antibiotics upon Plant Disease Control (R. N. Goodman); Theory and Principles of Soil Fumigation (C. A. I. Goring); Fumigation of Food Commodities for Insect Control (D. L. Lindgren and L. E. Vincent); Gas Chromatography of Pesticides (Dale M. Coulson); Instrumentation in Pesticide Residue Determination...
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Decorative Plants of Appalachia...A Source of Income. [Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 342].

By: Nelson, Thomas C. and Malcome J. Williamson.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, November 1970.

Seller ID: 12426scs

Quarto, paperbound (stiff brown illus. wrappers), 31 pp. Fine.
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Tree Maintanance. Fifth Edition.

By: Pirone, P.P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Seller ID: 00567sc

Octavo, brown illus. cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xviii, 587 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting), former-owner stamp, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with slight wear along edges. Illustrated. ÒFeaturing descriptions of all phases of tree care written in nontechnical language, the book serves an excellent guide to tree care. Dr. Pirone discusses planting and transplanting, pruining and creating wounds, fertilizers, cavity treatments, care after storms, and insect pests. Special chapters deal with specific abnormalities in trees -- diagnosing tree troubles, non-parasi...
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Category: Agriculture