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Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1974. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. First published in 1792, Robert Baily Thomas' Old Farmer's Almanack was distributed annually thereafter for more than 100 years. In 1904, using the Farmer's Almanack as a base, Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard University originally published this study of early New England farm life and lore. He presents a fascinating compilation of information covering a wide spectrum of activities of both major and minor significance to the farmer of the day. 403pp.
The New England Farmer - A Semi-monthly Journal Dedicated To Agriculture, Horticulture, And Their Kindred - : 1850 Volume II
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The New England Farmer - A Semi-monthly Journal Dedicated to Agriculture, Horticulture, and their Kindred: 1850 Volume II
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This is a bound volume of 26 issues of the publication "THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER" - A Semi-Monthly Journal Dedicated to Agriculture, Horticulture, and their Kindred. 1850 Volume II; J. Nourse; Quincy Hall, Boston. The issues feature an intricate farm scene masthead as well as "numerous beautiful engravings." Edited by S.W. Cole. With an Index at the front of the volume.
Here are a few examples of the contents: Winter Management of Fowls; Small Potatoes; Long Vitality of Seeds; Remedy for the Poll-Evil; American Tea; Benefits of Deep Ploughing; Nature of Different Soils; Applications of Bones as a Manure; On Suckers of Fruit Trees; Cultivation of Flowers; Wire Fence; Utility of Indian Corn; The Farmer; Grasses; Diseases of Horses; An Old Hive of Bees; Farmers' Ice Houses; Hatching Chickens; The Apple Tree Borer, and much more.
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The front cover has numerous tiny cloth tears; heavy staining to the back cover; damaged corners and damaged top/bottom edges of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages - all issues are securely intact. For the most part the pages are in very good condition - mostly clean with occasional light foxing and some heavy tanning to some random pages. A previous owner has written a topic of interest with its corresponding page number on the pastedowns and on a blank end paper (heavy writing on the blank end paper) - for example "407 for pinched hoof in horse," "322 for hydrophobia." Light stain along the outer edge of a front end paper. The first Index page has a 1" tear the outer edge. Overall an excellent reading copy, but fair condition only because of the condition of the covers/spine.
Here are a few examples of the contents: Winter Management of Fowls; Small Potatoes; Long Vitality of Seeds; Remedy for the Poll-Evil; American Tea; Benefits of Deep Ploughing; Nature of Different Soils; Applications of Bones as a Manure; On Suckers of Fruit Trees; Cultivation of Flowers; Wire Fence; Utility of Indian Corn; The Farmer; Grasses; Diseases of Horses; An Old Hive of Bees; Farmers' Ice Houses; Hatching Chickens; The Apple Tree Borer, and much more.
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The front cover has numerous tiny cloth tears; heavy staining to the back cover; damaged corners and damaged top/bottom edges of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages - all issues are securely intact. For the most part the pages are in very good condition - mostly clean with occasional light foxing and some heavy tanning to some random pages. A previous owner has written a topic of interest with its corresponding page number on the pastedowns and on a blank end paper (heavy writing on the blank end paper) - for example "407 for pinched hoof in horse," "322 for hydrophobia." Light stain along the outer edge of a front end paper. The first Index page has a 1" tear the outer edge. Overall an excellent reading copy, but fair condition only because of the condition of the covers/spine.
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- Place of Publication Quincy Hall, Boston
- Date Published 1850
- Keywords the new england journal, agriculture, horticulture, farmers, farming, outdoors, nature, plants, flowers, fruits, horses, livestock
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THE OLD FARMER AND HIS ALMANACK: BEING SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND MANNERS IN NEW ENGLAND A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
by Kittredge, George Lyman
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The Old Farmer and His Almanack. Being Some Observations on Life and Manners in New England a Hundred Years Ago..
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920. 3rd ptg. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Some edge wear. Front and back cover have some lighter spots.
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The New England Farmer: A Monthly Agricultural Journal July 1857 (Vol IX No 7)
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Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered soiled tanned cover, tattered clean bright text. Product DescriptionIncludes: The Value of Rocks; Little Things by the Way-Side; Baden Corn -- Seed Corn; Culture of Roots; Charter Oak Grap; My Own Sweet Wife; Butter Making; Breeding Animals; Culture of Onions Beautify Your Home; Decrease of Horned Cattle; Transactions of the Frnaklin Co. Agricultural Society; Lunar Influences; Intersgint Chemical Discovery; Extracts and Replies; Self-Acting Farm Well (illutrated); Measurement of Milk; Cabbages; Ornithology; How to Raise Young Stock; poultry Roosts; Extracts and Replies; A Horse Power; Plowing the Deep; Home Industry; Items in Agriculture; Robin's Come; Report of a Small Garden; Penobscot Plum (illustrated); Chines Norther Sugar Cane; State of main Potato; Electric Agency of Trees and Plants; Skinning Animals; Indian Mode of Preparing Skins; Experiments and Theorizing Barn Swallows; Meadow Muck and Cotswold Sheep; The Jenny Lind Potato; Keep…
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Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered soiled tanned cover, tattered soiled pages. Back cover torn at spine in plastic bag to keep it from tearing further. Product DescriptionIncludes: September; Notes from Main; Letter from Mr. Brown; About Guano; Fruit-Tree Borers; Mr. French in England; Dresden Ware and its Discoverer; Ode on Solitude; Grape Vine Protector (illustrated); Philosophy of Hoeing; False Estimate of the hay Crop; Whtewashing Trees; Do Roots or Tubers Mix Prejudice Against Agricultural Periodicals; Hay-Caps; National Trial of Reapers and Mowers at Syracuse NY; Chinese Sugar Cane; Yellow Bell Flower Apple; Spirit of the Agricultural Press; How to Destroy Weeds; Summer Care of Trees; Philosophy in Court; Upland Culture of Cranberries; About Maple Sugar; Cheese-Making in Vermont; A Fine Flock of Sheep; The Honey Bee; Swallows; Little Things; Rustic Villa (with drawing and floor plans); Make hay While the Sun Shines; Cabbage Insects; Lameness from Contracted Heels; Salt; An English…
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The New England Farmer: A Monthly Agricultural Journal October 1857 (Vol IX No 10)
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Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered tanned cover, tattered soiled pages. Product DescriptionIncludes: October -- The Atmosphere; Good For Nothing Soils; Drain Tile; Letter from Mr. French; Can the Plum be Saved From the Curculio; Horse-Rading; Potato -- The Original Root; Pears and Grapes; Boston Fan Mill (illustrated); Wheat Crop; Habits of the Curculio; Chinese Sugar Cane; No Apples This Year; Extracts and Replies; Onion and Other Crops; Letter from Mr. Brown; New Appler Parer (illustrated); Winter Wheat; Haycocks; Letter from England; Apple Tree Borer; Influences of Farming; Exxex County Stock (Chart); Why Grain Should Be Ground; Work-Shops and Stormy Days; Thank God for All (poem); The Old Soldier; The Wild Turkey; The Things I Raise; Head-Work in Farming; More Wise Than Ambitious; Horticultural Literature; Criticisms; Horse-Racing; Utility of Appearance; Kindness to Animals; Charcoal; Bee Culture; Columbian Gage Plum (illustrated); U. S. Agricultural Exhibition; Underdraining;…
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The New England Farmer: A Monthly Agricultural Journal December 1857 (Vol IX No 12)
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Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered soiled tanned cover, tattered soiled pages. Product DescriptionIncludes: December -- Appearances of Trees in Winter; Chinese Sugar Cane; Farmers' Clubs; A Great Yield of Oats; Sausage Stuffers; Whitewashing Trees; Is This Anybody's Picture Winter Weat; The Chemist in the Laundry; proper Time For Pruning; Healthful Diet; The Pipe of War; Cutting Potatoes; Willard'd Patent Root-Cutter (illustrated); young Men and the Farm; New hampshir State Show; Agricultural Fairs in Vermont; Much in a Barn; Fashion (poem); The Canker Worm; Extracts and Replies; hydreaulic Cement -- Its Uses; Destructive Insects; Stone Drains -- Contruction; Small Potato Experiment; Harvesting Corn; massachusetts State Show; A Good Potato Crop; Gathering and Preserving Winter Fruit; Iron Meet Cutter (illustrated); Position in Readin; Ants -- Their Senses and Habits; A Good Cow; Mysteries of a Junk of Coal; Influences in Farming; The Barlett Pear (illustrated); Thw Waste of…
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The New England Farmer: A Monthly Agricultural Journal November 1857 (Vol IX No 11)
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Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Good/ Tattered Tannd cover, some edgewear and chipping to bright clean text. Product DescriptionIncludes: November; Lead; Selecting Seed Corn -- Timely Hint; A Wooden Barometer; Culture of Cranberries in Meadows; The Curculio; Retreat of Swallows; Prince's Yellow Gage Plum (illustrated); A Plea for Dwarf Pears; Wheat Crop in Vermont; Guano; Meteorological Intelligence; Things in Essex County; Extracts and Replies; Relation of Trees to the Sil; by Wilson Flagg; The Things I Raise, No 2, Burrs Sweat Corn; Little Things by the Way Side; Profits of Sheep; The Concord Grape; Apios Tuberosa, or Ground Nut; The Wheat Crop; Letters from Mr French; Teh Curculio; Oricular Bread; Hymn of the Farmer; Chinese Farming; Design for a Suburban House (illustrated); Master Cutter -- s in Ioway; Uncle Toby's Cow; Trial of Sugar Can; Transplanting Hickory and Chestnut Trees; Middlesex Agricultural Society; Cause of the Failure of Fruit; Spring Wheat -- Sugar Cane; Smut Upon the…
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OLD FARMER AND HIS ALMANACK BEING SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND MANNERS IN NEW ENGLAND A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, SUGGESTED BY READING THE EARLIER NUMBERS OF MR. ROBERT B. THOMAS'S FARMER'S ALMANACK ...
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Harvard University Press, 1924T. hardcover. Good. . Book has shelf wear. Pages are tanned.
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The Old Farmer and His Almanack. Being Some Observations on Life and Manners in New England a Hundred Years Ago..
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920, 1920. 3rd ptg. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xiv, 403 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, plates, map, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
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The old farmer and his almanack;: Being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers ... well as a variety of miscellaneous matter,
by George Lyman Kittredge
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Boston: W. Ware and Co, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover with mylar dust jacket. Bound in publishers red cloth. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Good binding and cover. Paste-in slip on title page reads "John Graham Moseley, With Compliments of the Publishers (signed) Horace Everett Ware." Offsetting on contents page, resulting from a 1910 newspaper clipping that praises the Almanack as containing "everthing that is necessary and much that is delightful." Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Ships daily.
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