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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Full cloth covers. Book is very delicate. Binding is damaged and backstrip cover missing. Gilt pictorial on front board. Page edges dirty. Inscription internally. Pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1700grams, ISBN:
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B&W text ill. color plate. Good+, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover) light edgewear. 462pp, index. Volume II only of THE BOOK OF THE FARM which was published as part of THE FARMERS' LIBRARY-"DETAILING THE LABORS OF THE FARMER, STEWARD, PLOWMAN, HEDGER, CATTLE-MAN, SHEPHERD, FIELD-WORKER, AND DAIRYMAID." Contents of this volume partially contain: Fattening; Driving and Slaughtering Swine; Corn Markets; Dunghills and Liquid-Manure Tanks; Cows, Calving, and Calves; Repairing the Fences of Grass-Fields; Making Butter and Cheese; Hay-Making; Lifting and Pitting Potatoes; Sowing Autumn Wheat; and, much, much more. Color plate of a "Five Year Old Ayrshire Cow", and technical plates follow text of: Threshing Machine; Crank Steam Engine; Steam Engine Boiler; Water Wheel; Norge Wheel; Broadcast Sowing Machine; Drill Sowing machine; and a few more. The plates are followed by a few more pages with articles entitles: MANURES, AMELIORATORS AND STIMULANTS; THE NUTRITION OF PLANTS; and THE ACTION OF SALT UPON VEGETATION.
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Fine. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (UK) 3rd printing of this edition, No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, 304pp, index. colour and monochrome illu. An attractive book designed by Lee-May Lim. This is a Victorian era farming "bible" which dispenses information about planting hedges, to sheep shearing, from cheese-making to sheepdog training. The book was the informational basis for the BBC TV series "Victorian Farm". A heavy book. (2.7 JM HOZ 403/b1.
