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Pacific Rural Press and California Fruit Bulletin. Vol. LV. No. 20. May 14, 1898

The Dewey Publishing Company, San Francisco, CA, 1898

Original publisher's black and white wrapper with two reprinted black and white photographs on the front cover showing "quadruple effect evaporators, where the clarified [beet] juice is reduced to a semi-syrup preparatory to being re-clarified and boiled into sugar" and "mechanical filters, used in freeing the syrup from impurities; taken from Los Alamitos Sugar Works while in active operation." 11 1/4" x 15 1/2." Pages 305-320, complete. Black and white illustrations and advertisements throughout magazine, complete. Pages are very clean and intact but loose. Chipping at the spine but mostly limited to the first and last leaves. The Pacific Rural Press was a major agricultural journal that was published between the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Many of the articles give information and advice on the different parts of the agricultural industry. The following are some of the articles and features in this issue: "Evaporating Beet Juice," "The Dairy: Dairying in San Diego County," "The Stock Yard," "Track and Farm: An Outlook for American Horse Breeding," "The Field: The Sorghums Again," "Fruit Marketing: Cured Fruit Marketing," "Florist and Gardener: Garden Notes," "The Home Circle: Worry; The Parrot and the Hen; How to Freshen Last Season's Hat; Legend of the Opal," "Domestic Economy: Domestic Hints" [recipes], "The Poultry Yard: Eastern Suggestions on Cheapening Eggs," "Engineering Difficulties in Constructing the Nicaragua Canal," "American Goods in Europe," "Submerged Valleys on the California Coast," and "Exhaustion of Fertile Soils.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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