This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...was evidently more largely due to better cows. A herd of 91 cows in one association produced in 12 months a total income of $58 over cost of feed, or 6-1 cents for each cow. When the owner sends that herd to the block he is to be congratulated. The country is not yet so short of dairy products that anyone need milk ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...was evidently more largely due to better cows. A herd of 91 cows in one association produced in 12 months a total income of $58 over cost of feed, or 6-1 cents for each cow. When the owner sends that herd to the block he is to be congratulated. The country is not yet so short of dairy products that anyone need milk such cows. A farmer who owned a very large farm of poor land is reported to have said: "I know that my land is worthless, but it makes a fellow feel good to think he owns a thousand acres." Possibly it made the owner of the scrub herd "feel good" to. think he owned 91 cows. In a herd of cows in another association, the poorest produced only income enough over cost of feed to buy a twocent postage stamp. For labor and miscellaneous expenses of all kinds the owner had only the manure, skim milk, and calf. It seldom pays to sell a good cow; it never pays to keep a poor one. It has been estimated that the average production of all the dairy cows in the United States is 160 pounds of butterfat a year. The average production of all the cows in the 40 associations studied was 247 pounds a year. Careful tabulations of the records of the 40 associations show that a production of 160 pounds of butterfat a year gave an income of $23 over cost of feed, while the average income over cost of feed for all the cows in these associations was $47, or a little more than twice as much. Undoubtedly the dairymen who join cow-testing associations are more progressive than the average, and own cows and farms that are much above the average, but the fine showing made by association cows should be credited, in large measure, to association work. Certainly the cow-testing associations return many dollars more than they cost. It is encouraging also to kn...
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Publisher:
United States Department of Agriculture
Published:
1916
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18057963172
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. AGRICULTURE. Some mild discoloration to rear cover cloth-not bad. 616pp. Many photos & illustrations. Index. A sound copy. Promoting global literacy for over 40 years. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
Publisher:
United States Department of Agriculture
Published:
1896
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17164296305
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Good. No Dust Jacket. 656pp. Many photos & illustrations. Index. A sound copy near vg. Promoting global literacy for over 30 years. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Good with no dust jacket. Black cloth, faded at spine, worn edges, corners bent. Text is reasonably tight for large book. Photographs, charts, maps fold-outs and 7 full color fruit plates illustrate report.; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 846 pages.
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Very Good. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1907. 720 pgs. Illustrated with 43 Full-Page Plates and 22 Text-Figure Illustrations. 11 of the Plates are in Color, including 10 Botanical Plates The Color Fruit Plates: 1. Colman Citrange 2. Savage Citrange 3. Magnate Apple 4. Oliver Red Apple 5. Rabun Apple 6. Early Wheeler Peach 7. Banner Grape 8. Josephine Persimmon 9. Chapelow Avocado 10. Pecan Varieties Also, Color Plate of a " Cage Bird "11. Lady Gould Finch. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are rubbed and worn). No ownership marks present. Foxing present to the color plates. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Contents includes: New Problems of the Weather( with various illustrations from photographs showing the buildings and weather apparatus at Mount Weather, Virginia Virginia Road Building (With 11 illustrations from photos, showing road builing in Atlanta Georgia, Jackson Tennessee, Uniontown Alabama, Auburn Nebraska, Walla Walla Washington, Arkansas City Kansas, and Texarkana Arkansas) Cage Bird Traffic of the United States( pet caged Birds, mostly Canaries, with illustrations from photos showing Bird Cages, and a Color Plate of a Finch ) Birds That Eat Scale InsectsThe Effect of Climate on the Composition of Durum Wheat( includes a mono-color plate ) The Game Warden of Today ( 12 pages on the work of Game Wardens) Range Management ( with 2 illustrations from photos showing a stallion Horse & Cowboy in North Dakota, and Range Horses ) Preparation of Unfermented Apple JuiceForeign Restrictions on American MeatMethods of Reducing The Cost of Producing Beet Sugar( with illustrations from photographs) Nuts and Their Uses As Food( with illustrations from photos of California American Indians using Acorns as food ) The Mexican Cotton Boll WeevilNew Citrus and Pineapple Productions( with Color and B&W plates, citranges, oranges, Pineapples ) Promising New Fruits( with Color Plates, see list above ) Freight Costs and Market ValueNew Tobacco Varieties( 18 pages plus several plates showing Tobacco plants ) Opportunities for Dairying( in various states and regions, 24 pages ) Lime Sulphur Washes for the San Jose Scale( with various illustrations from photographs showing lime-sulphur wash cooking plants, outfits for spraying, ) National Forests and the Lumber Supply Weather Conditions in 1906 Review of Road Laws enacted in 1906 Plus More Articles, Tables and Statistics.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
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Photographs, charts, maps fold-outs and 7 full color fruit plates. Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. First Edition; First Printing; navy c w/gilt sp; ine titles some fading and moderate wat at extremities; slight rim of light marginal staining on a few pages; 846 clean, unmarked pages; includes items on hemp insdustry, forestry; grasshoppers, mohair industry; cotton, timber, rural common schools; floods, tuberculosis; apple orcharding; irrigation, rural free mail delivery, etc.
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B/W Illus. Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. 1st printing; blue c. w/some sunning and fading of covers; 880 clean unmarked owner's name; includes items about Forestry, Weather, Meteorology, Entomology, Agrostology, Tobacco Industry, Irrigation, Etc.
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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; Hardcover. Very Good / no dust jacket. PO name inside. Clear Text and Images. Minor shelf-wear. Mild age tanning. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.