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By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The Genesee Farmer: 1851
Seller ID: 2205712
Front and end matter, fore-edge margin, and a few text pages foxed. 1851 Soft Cover. [9]-292, [2] pp. Shoestring-bound sammelband of twelve issues of The Genesee Farmer, reinforced with wood. An important mid-19th century agricultural periodical published in Rochester, New York. Collected articles on farming, livestock, and other rural concerns, with engraved illustrations throughout.KEYWORDS: EPHEMERA AGRICULTURE FARMING FARM LIFE GENESEE VALLEY View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Crossing PRess: 1978
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2275497
1978 reissue of 1888 original. Spine lightly creased, wrappers lightly rubbed. x, 644 pp. 1978 reissue of 1888 original. Farmer's & Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia. A Complete Ready Reference Library for Farmers, Gardeners, Fruit Growers, Stockmen and Housekeepers, Containing a Large Fund of Useful Information, Facts, Hints and Suggestions, in the Various Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Live Stock Raising, Poultry Keeping, Bee Keeping, Dairy Farming, Fertilizers, Rur... View more info
By: A Practical Chemist, and Experienced Liquor Dealer.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Published for the Author: 1860
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266630
Rebound in navy blue buckram, with gilt titles and rules on spine. Original green endpapers retained, and somewhat faded along edges. 1860 Hard Cover. xii, 208, [8] pp. An pre-American Civil War guide to the commercial production of wine and spirits, with scientific explanations related to the fermentation and distillation processes, and recipes for a variety of styles of wine, whiskey, brandy, gin, etc. View more info
By: Briggs, Lyman J.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture: 1908
Seller ID: 1282352
Pages toned, pencil markings on front cover. 1908 Soft Cover. CONTENTS: Nature of Root-rot; Field treatment of root-rot; Occurrence of root-rot; Field experiments showing the bad effects of alkaline commercial fertilizers on root-rot soils; Greenhouse experiments with alkaline fertilizers; Summary. View more info
By: Brown, H.B.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Louisiana State Dept: 1956
Seller ID: 1775662
Wrappers foxed. 1956 Stapled Binding. 22 pp. A detailed account of the history of cotton through the ages to the present day. View more info
By: Chapman, P.J.; Glass, E.H.; Krauss, R.E.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station: 1999
Seller ID: 2132918
Edges a bit rubbed. 1999 Large Softcover. xiii, 309 pp. A century-long history of the Geneva agricultural experiment station, with biographical sketches of various directors, and chapters on entomology, plant pathology, food science and technology, pomology and viticulture, seed and vegetable sciences, integrated pest management, bacteriology, chemistry, and dairying & animal research. View more info
By: Christopher, Tom; Asher, Marty
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Random House: 1999
Seller ID: 2266617
No jacket. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. xii, 284 pp. Everyone loves garden-fresh vegetables, but who has the time or energy to grow their own? You do--if you adopt Tom and Marty's tried-and-true schemes and tricks for 20-minute vegetable gardening. They'll help you create from scratch a ready-to-plant garden in less than two hours, and then help you choose the easiest, most rewarding plants for your region and your tastes. You'll learn tips for winning the neighbor... View more info
By: Cobb, Irvin S.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: George H. Doran Company: 1920
Seller ID: 2264225
No jacket, ink name on front endpaper, pencil name on second blank. 1920 Hard Cover. vii, 247 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States. Cobb also wrote more tha... View more info
By: Dean, R.W.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1969
Seller ID: 1282354
Minor wear. 1969 Soft Cover. CONTENTS: Methods; CODLING MOTH: Life History Trap Records; RED-BANDED LEAF ROLLER: Life History Trap Records; FRUIT TREE LEAF ROLLER: Life History; Trap Records; OBLIQUE BANDED LEAF ROLLER: Life History; Trap Records; EYE-SPOTTED BUD MOTH: Life History; Trap Records; APPLE BARK BORER: Life History; Trap Records; ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH: Life History; Trap Records; Moth Captures Relating to Host; Relative Abundance; Other Moths Found in Orchard T... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Rochester Academy of Science: 1935
Seller ID: 1526428
Lightly rubbed. 1935 Stapled Binding. 31 pp. 10 x 6 3/8. CONTENTS: Introduction; Tertiary, preglacial drainage; Glacial interference; Hydrography of the Genesee Valley; Volume of the Underground Water; Quality of the Artesian Water; Utilization of the Underground Water; Summary - Economic; Bibliography. View more info
By: Harris, Joseph
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Orange Judd Company: 1883
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2207603
New and enlarged edition, revised by the author. Boards rubbed and stained, front endpaper removed, pages lightly soiled. 1883 Hard Cover. 273, [3] pp. 8vo. A guide to keeping pigs, written by the founder of Harris Seeds of Rochester. Joseph Harris was an English immigrant who became extremely successful in the selection of superior strains of vegetables and grains... His success as a seedsman led to the beginning of Harris Seeds in 1879. The company became widely popul... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Butterworths, London: 1962
Seller ID: 1271626
Former library copy. Only library marks are stamps on spine bases and stamps on copyright pages. 'Nell Mondy' in ink on front endpaper, minor pencil marks in text by former owner and Cornell professor Dr. Nell I. Mondy. 1962 Hard Cover. Includes numerous charts & graphs. PROVENANCE: This and numerous other items in our inventory were purchased at auction in Ithaca, NY from the estate of Nell Mondy. Long time GWIS member and friend, Dr. Nell Mondy, passed away Thursday, A... View more info
By: Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Francis, E.H.; Tukey, H.B.; Thatcher, R.W.
Price: $325.00
Publisher: J.B. Lyon Company: 1921
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263124
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed, ink name crossed out on front endpaper. Text pages unmarked, binding square and holding firmly (we often see books in this series with damage to hinges). 1921 Large Hardcover. xi, 636 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2. Original green cloth, gilt titles. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of pears. An extensive survey of many varieties of pear grown in New York, the aim of which - according to the preface - is to make... a ... View more info
By: Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen, C.B.
Price: $140.00
Publisher: J.B. Lyon Company, Albany: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2078086
First edition. Boards rubbed (common with titles from this series), binding tight & square, no foxing. 1917 Large Hardcover. xiii, 541 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. An extensive survey of many varieties of peaches grown in New York, including according to the preface an account of the history and uses of the peach; a discussion of the botanical characters of the species of cultivated peaches; an account of the peach-regions and of peach-growing i... View more info
By: Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen, C.B.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: J.B. Lyon Company: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272654
First edition. Tiny ink name stamp on front endpaper, pages ridges faintly foxed, minor discoloration to base of first and last few pages. Boards are almost entirely free of the scuffing and discoloration one often sees on these volumes. 1917 Large Hardcover. xiii, 541 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. An extensive survey of many varieties of peaches grown in New York, including according to the preface an account of the history and uses of the peach... View more info
By: Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen, C.B.; Wellington, R.
Price: $175.00
Publisher: J.B. Lyon Company: 1915
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2078082
First edition. The best copy we have handled - tight, square binding, no foxing to plates or text, none of the rubbing one generally sees to boards of books in this series, gilt titles bright with no loss. Tiny bump to front corner is only flaw. 1915 Large Hardcover. xii, 371 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Original green cloth, gilt titles. An extensive survey of many varieties of cherries grown in New York, including according to the preface an historical account of cultivated che... View more info
By: Hoorton, Dave
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Boston Mills Press: 1981
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2203491
Small sticker remnant on front corner. 1981 Large Softcover. Unpaginated. A collection of photographs first printed in 1906 to commemorate the 70 year anniversary of the Canadian manufacturing firm originally founded by a New Yorker who built Canada's first threshing machine. This edition was released to mark 75 years since the publication of the original. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Frederick L. Houghton: 1910
Seller ID: 1301586
Boards rubbed, pages & page ridges foxed. 1910 Hard Cover View more info
By: Husmann, George
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Orange Judd Publishing Co., Inc.: 1928
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2195465
Fourth edition, revised and rewritten. Boards stained, binding a bit shaken, endpapers lightly stained, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. viii, 269, [10] pp. 8vo. A guide to growing grapes and producing wine, originally published in 1880. This edition is of particular interest because: 1) it was printed during the Prohibition era (1920-1933); and 2) it includes added chapters on the California grape industry.Keywords: VITICULTURE GRAPES VINEYARDS WINEMA... View more info
By: Jayaraman, Saru; Schlosser, Eric
Price: $8.00
Publisher: ILR/Cornell University Press: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267372
First edition. A very nice copy. 2013 Hard Cover. xii, 191 pp. Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it.?from Behind the Kitchen Door. How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working condition... View more info
By: Kimball, Kristin
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Scribner: 2011
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2262568
Faint smudge on front wrapper. 2011 Trade Paperback. 287 pp. Single, thirty-something, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and cattle and driving horses. But on an impulse, smitten, if not yet in love, she shed her... View more info
By: Milner, Max
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Protein Advisory Group of the United Nations: 1973
Seller ID: 1284962
Faint stain on back cover along spine, pencil markings on front cover, spine creased. 1973 Trade Paperback. CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors and Participants; Welcome by FAO - Juan Felipe Yriart; Opening Remarks of Chairman; Keynote Address; Building a Protein Revolution on Grain Legumes; NUTRITIONAL IMPORTANCE OF LEGUMES FOR HUMANS: Legumes in Human Diets and How They Might Be Improved; Factors Affecting the Nutritional Value of Beans; Discussants; Su... View more info
By: Parsons, E.R.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Dakota Farmer: 1913
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2208443
First thus. No jacket, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. 188 pp. A collection of articles written by E.R. Parsons and published in The Dakota Farmer, Aberdeen, S.D. during 1912 and 1913. Originally printed serially in The Dakota Farmer. Includes photographic plates.CONTENTS: Introduction; Deep Plowing; Reasons for Deep Plowing; Practical Work of Deep Plowing; For and Against Deep Plowing; Cultivating and Mulching; Subsoil Moisture; Dry Farm Fertili... View more info
By: Phin, John
Price: $375.00
Publisher: C.M. Saxton, Agricultural Book Publisher: 1862
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262325
First edition. Sabin 62566 only lists an 1867 printing of this work, which this edition clearly precedes. Boards lightly rubbed. 1862 Hard Cover. xvi, 375, 8 pp. 8vo. An American Civil War era guide to the cultivation of wine grapes, including a bibliography of grape culture, a descriptive list of native grapes, a tabular view of the size, color, shape, etc., of all varieties of American grapes, and a chapter on the manufacture of wine which includes extracts from letter... View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University: 1949
Seller ID: 1523290
Wrappers toned, foxed & rubbed. 1949 Stapled Binding. 14 pp. CONTENTS: The Site; Types of Ponds; To Design the Pond - The Spillway, Size of Pond, The Trickle Tube; Construction of the Pond; Cost of a Farm Pond; Pond Management View more info
By: Rivers, Tom
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hodgins Printing, Batavia: 2010
Edition: 4th Printing
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2186918
4th printing. Signed by author. 2010 Trade Paperback. 153 pp. From the back cover: Tom Rivers introduces readers to the rigors of farm labor and some of the people who do the grueling work, including cabbage cutter 'King Kong' and apple-picking pro 'Stretch.' You'll also meet the elusive 'Joshua,' who abandoned the cabbage crew in a huge rainstorm. Black and white photographs included. View more info
By: Simonde, J.C.L. [Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi]
Price: $1,200.00
Publisher: Chez J.J. Paschoud, Libraire: 1801
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199175
First edition. Includes fold-out. Small contemporary bookplate and larger modern bookplate on front endpaper. 1801 Hard Cover. xiv, 327 pp. 8vo. Patterned leather spine, orange morocco spine labels, gilt titles and rules, paper over boards. French text. Fold-out of engraved agricultural illustrations follows text. The first work by the historian and political economist who became known for his French and Italian histories. Simonde details his life on a small farm in Pesc... View more info
By: United States Department of Agriculture
Price: $3.00
Publisher: United States Department of Agriculture: 1966
Seller ID: 1282347
Front cover edges toned. 1966 Large Softcover. CONTENTS: Summary; Introduction; Apple fruit characteristics related to hydrohandling; Fruit buoyancy; Surface orientation; Buoyant velocity; Fruit submersion; Angle of repose of accumulated fruit underwater; Fruit movement on inclined surfaces by sliding or rolling; Water penetration of fruit; Conclusions; Components for a hydrohandling system; Box dumper; Sorting devices; Sizing Devices; Testing of pilot model hydrosizer; ... View more info
By: USDA
Price: $5.00
Publisher: USDA: 1956
Seller ID: 1775664
Binding tight, pages clean. 1956 Stapled Binding. 8 pp. A brief overview of the harvesting of cotton. View more info
By: Wassom C. E. & Kalton, R. R.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Iowa State University Press: 1953
Seller ID: 1282355
Pages toned. 1953 Soft Cover. CONTENTS: Summary and Conclusions; Introduction; Pertinent literature; Materials and Methods; Experimental Results; Percentage of Dry Matter; Size of Plot; Shape of Plot; Incomplete Black Analyses; Discussion; Appendix; Literature Cited. View more info
