The American Farm FROM OUR EDITORS
FARM CONVENIENCES AND HOW TO MAKE THEM First published in 1884, this how-to handbook displays the down-home ingenuity of our farmer forebears to splendid advantage. Filled with valuable lessons in rural economy and illustrated with period engravings, here is a treasure trove of information on building a variety of time- and labor-saving devices from gatepost braces to milking sheds to animal traps, as well as instructions and techniques for everyday chores like harvesting manure, handling bulls, and curing hay. B&W illus.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Tracing the expansion of farming in America westward from the seedbed in southeastern Pennsylvania to the western edge of the Corn Belt in Minnesota, then swinging back along the Milky Way of dairy country from Wisconsin to New England, The American Farm provides an unparalleled portrait of the pastoral landscapes of America and how farming has made our country both bountiful and breathtakingly beautiful.
The American Farm takes us through such regions as the great grain country of the Northwest, where golden wheat blankets the rolling Palouse; and corn country, where rows of feathery green ears grow right up to the road and enormous grain storage buildings rise from the flat landscape like American Sphinxes.
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