Small-Scale Sheep-Keeping
by Jeremy Hunt


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Sound, practical advice for the growing number of people with small flocks of sheep, particularly rare breeds. The principles needed to produce success are fully explored, but in such a way as not to be too technical, unlike books for more commercial... (read more)

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Art of Blacksmithing Revised Edition
by Alex W Bealer


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Revised edtion. Tells how they did it in yesteryear. Over 500 illustrations show how they made everything from knives to horsehoes, from iron grills to rifle barrels and barrel hoops.... (read more)

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My Fine Feathered Friend
by William Grimes


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Boy Meets Bird. Boy Gets Bird. Boy Loses Bird An Urban Folktale. One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever... (read more)

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Fifty Years Among the Bees
by C C Miller


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Long a classic within the beekeeping community, this book is one of the greatest works on the ancient art and science of beekeeping. A practical, yet endlessly charming handbook on all aspects of this romantic, arcane pursuit, it offers advice... (read more)

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Farmall: The Golden Age 1924-1954
by Lee Klancher


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The Farmall tractors of the first part of the 20th century brought the Industrial Revolution to the farm, playing a key role in America's transformation from a primarily agrarian society to an industrialized nation. In Farmall Tractors 1924-54: The... (read more)

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Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture
by Steven A Wolf


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Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to recognition that scientific productivity is tightly connected to economic dynamism.... (read more)

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Science for Agriculture: A Long-Term Perspective, 2nd Edition
by W.E. Huffman and R.E Evenson


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Science for Agriculture was the first thorough quantitative and analytical treatment of the history of the U.S. agricultural research system and as such has served as the foundation for research over the 10 years since its publication. The benefits from... (read more)

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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
by Stephen Yafa


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In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500... (read more)

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From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture
by Gary Holthaus


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In From the Farm to the Table, over forty farm families from America's heartland detail the practices and values that relate to their land, work, and communities. Their stories reveal that those who make their living in agriculture, despite stereotypes... (read more)

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Revolution on the Range: The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West
by Courtney White


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In the final decade of the twentieth century, the American West was at war. Battle lines had hardened, with environmentalists squarely on one side of the fence, and ranchers on the other. By the mid-1990s, debates over the region’s damaged land had... (read more)

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Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
by Catherin Goldhammer


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In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, along with her twelve-year-old daughter, starts life anew in a cottage by the sea, in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines. Partly to... (read more)

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Advertising Barns: Vanishing American Landmarks
by William G Simmonds


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The history of these gorgeous old bits of roadside Americana comes to life with stunning photographs of these crumbling relics of America's rural past. Featuring Mail Pouch Tobacco barns as well as others painted with old-fashioned advertisements, this... (read more)

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Farm Tractors: John Deere, Farmall, Ford & Fordson
by Lee Klancher


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Tractors are a proven best-selling subject and this colorful title features the three most popular brands. John Deere, Farmall, and Ford & Fordson combine in this value priced hardcover.Motorbooks Enthusiast Color Series features well over 100 titles on... (read more)

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Hemp Horizons: The Comeback of America's Most Maligned Plant
by John W Roulac


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Roulac is president of Hemptech, a consulting company that promotes industrial hemp. He looks at the potential for the plant, agricultural and environmental factors, the controversy about its disreputable relatives, the history of its banning in the US... (read more)

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John Deere Tractors (Enthusiast Color)
by Rod Beemer


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John Deere two-cylinder tractors have made an impact to the agricultural world. They provided the mechanical muscle to transform prairie and plains to farms that have provided for the nation and world.For 42 years, John Deere two-cylinder tractors cut... (read more)

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The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
by Lyall Watson


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The bestselling author takes a delightful look at the occasionally amusing, often instructive, and completely admirable qualities of pigs in this indispensable book filled with both realistic and wonderfully fanciful illustrations of pigs that illuminate... (read more)

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Small John Deere Tractors
by Rod Beemer


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During the initial wave of powered farming in the early 20th century, most medium- to large-scale farmers traded in their mules for tractors. In the 1930s, when manufacturers began marketing their wares to the holdouts, they began building smaller... (read more)

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Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies)
by Thomas M Whitmore


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The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both academic and public circles. Focusing on Middle America, this book completes a trilogy which has made... (read more)

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