Buy this book on-line Pacific Rural Press and California Fruit Bulletin. Vol. XLVIII. No. 5. August 4, 1894The Dewey Publishing Company, San Francisco, CA, 1894
Original publisher's black and white wrapper with a reprinted black and white photograph showing citrus trees being treated for scale insects (caption: "Improved apparatus for treating citrus trees with hydrocyanic gas for killing scale insects"). 11 1/4" x 15 1/2." Pages 65-80, complete. Black and white illustrations and advertisements throughout magazine, complete. Pages are very clean and intact but loose. Edges are slightly browned on a few pages. A Fine copy. 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: "The Gas Process for Scale Insects," "The Tuberculosis Trouble" [cow disease], "From an Independent Standpoint" [mentions political matters in Washington, D.C. and President Cleveland], "The Field: The Great Hay Crop of the United States; Flaxseed Growing; Rice Growing Without Flooding," "The Dairy: Rich Milk Is Valuable to the Cheese Maker; Is This the 'Black Pepsin' Fraud Again?; The Coming Dairy Convention," "The Poultry Yard: Rations for Young Chicks; Mr. Pennebaker Is Too Kind to His Fowls; Newcomer Should Look for Vermin; Midsummer in the Poultry Yard," "Track and Farm: How a Horse Ought to Go; Breeding of Shetland Ponies; The Future of the Horse [consideration of horses' place in society with the advent of new means of transportation]; Teaching Colts to Back," "The Irrigator: Onion Growing with Irrigation in Egypt; The Irrigation Congress at Denver," "Entomological: Paris Green on Field Crops; Does Anything Eat the Red Spider?," "Horticulture: California Almonds on Their Merits; Pricking vs. Dipping Prunes," "The Home Circle: Hints to Housekeepers; Ways of Preserving Currants [recipes]," and "S. F. Market Report.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Pacific Rural Press and California Fruit Bulletin. Vol. XLVIII. No. 5. August 4, 1894. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, libri antichi, livres d'occasion, incunabula and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |