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by Rolfe Cobleigh  Publisher Comments Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them, a classic from the Golden Age of American Farming, is as useful and pertinent for homesteaders and small-scale farmers today as it was when it was first published more than seventy-five ago. A wealth of labor- and... (read more)  List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Nicola Smith Publisher Comments If you’re interested in where our food comes from, read Harvest, an intimate portrait of a small Vermont farm. Jennifer Megyesi and Kyle Jones put everything on the line—their ideals alongside their savings—to start Fat Rooster Farm. By... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Allan G Bogue Publisher Comments As the family farm of yesterday steadily loses ground to the corporate farm of tomorrow, pundits and plain folks alike bemoan the loss of the homely, down-to-earth rural life that few actually know or remember anymore. Allan G. Bogue is a notable... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Norberg Hodge Publisher Comments Modern industrial agriculture is in crisis. In our obsession with 'efficiency' and short-term profit, we are losing all real connection with the natural world. As a result, the dream of global abundance promised by the introduction of chemical... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Carol Hauser Publisher Comments SUGARING is a beautifully rendered narrative about the act of sugaring, with instructions and recipes.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerard Helferich Publisher Comments Helferich traces the life of a modern cotton farmer, exploring the traditions of growing cotton that have endured since ancient times, and the current forces that threaten to drive small farmers from the land.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Chester Jr Peterson Publisher Comments Spin up the turbo, lock it into all-wheel drive, and shift into high gear to take a high-horsepower tour of the tractors of the 1960s! American Farm Tractors In the 1960s discusses and explores the history of John Deere and other prominent manufacturers... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Hunt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carl Eicher Publisher Comments Extensively revised to reflect the new directions in development thought and policy, this new edition of a classic text examines what has been learned theoretically and empirically about agricultural and rural economic development since the 1950s. <P... (read more) Your price $28.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Macmillan Publisher Comments Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchen-daele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny central New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experienced the Great War entirely from the ?home front.? But as his moving wartime diaries reveal... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frieda Knobloch Publisher Comments In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Derry Book News Annotation Purebred cattle breeder Derry (history, U. of Guelph) presents a history of purebred cattle breeding in Ontario from 1870-1920 and its relationship to cattle production. The emphasis is on the herds (purebred and otherwise) themselves as "living examples... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $16.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Heather Smit Thomas Publisher Comments Raising a calf is interesting, fun, and rewarding -- and there's a lot you need to know to do a good job. This book provides easy-to-follow instructions, complete with photographs, drawings, and diagrams, on how to care for your calf in the best possible... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lyall Watson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans C. Buechler Book News Annotation Two professors of anthropology analyze the effects of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany since the demise of communism. The impact of the transition on farmers' concepts of their own identities a central theme. The text is based... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Don Graham Publisher Comments Larger than Rhode Island and once the largest ranch in the world, the King Ranch in Texas is America's most famous ranch, as well as the basis of Edna Ferber's "Giant". Its story is emblematic of the frontier West, one of outsized ambitions and frontier... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Radojkovik Publisher Comments Classic barns of North America. This book celebrates the era of North American barn-building known as The Golden Age of Barn Construction, from the early 1700s to the mid-20th century. The author explores the variety of barn styles, pays tribute to the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barb Crabbe Publisher Comments Horses are among the most complex creatures in the animal kingdom: so much can go wrong so quickly. And when it does, these delicate, injury prone beasts need swift treatment. Otherwise, a simple eating disorder might rapidly lead to death and a minor... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Hart Synopsis A guide to managing sheep, which covers every aspect of sheep husbandry, including the yearly calendar, choice of breed, range of markets and veterinary care. It examines the business management involved, as well as offering advice on topics such as... (read more) Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marilyn Nissenson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 134) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.98 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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