Rural affairs : a practical and copiously illustrated register of rural economy and rural taste : including country dwellings, improving and planting grounds, fruits and flowers, domestic animals, and all farm and garden processes / by J.J. Thomas ...

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Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob), author.

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Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker & Son, 397 Broadway, 1858-1881.

Description:

9 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
440 wood engravings; plus added title-page, "Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs, for 1855-6-7. With 440 Engravings. Vol. I. Albany: Luther Tucker & Son. 1858" (signed bottom center "Lossing-Barritt. N.Y."
Volume 1 has 336 pages.
Includes indexes.
v. 1. 1855-6-7, 1858 -- v. 2. 1858-9-60, 1860 -- v. 3. 1861-2-3, 1872 -- v. 4. 1864-5-6, 1868 -- v. 5. 1867-8-9, 1873 -- v. 6. 1870-2-3, 1872 -- v. 7. 1873-4-5, 1875 -- v. 8. 1876-7-8, 1878 -- v. 9. 1879-80-81, 1881.

Summary:

Practical illustrated advice on gardens, husbandry, and small farms. Included are plants for flower gardens, orchards, and tree planting, designs for country houses, and ideas for improving old ones, also examples of outbuildings and summer-houses, and comparisons of implements and tools. The American Pomological Society has supplied a list of the best fruit. An interesting record of contemporary practice, the above book combines three years of the Annual Register 1855-1857, issued here in one volume format.

Subject:

Farm management United States.
Rural development United States.
Agriculture United States.
Développement rural États-Unis.
Exploitations agricoles Gestion États-Unis.
Agriculture
Farm management
Rural development
United States

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Illustrated annual register of rural affairs

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