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The Macmillan Company, Published 1914. Hardcover, xix, 424 pp.; 20 cm; September 1914 printing (first published April 1914); frontispiece and illustrated with black-and-white photographs and botanical line drawings.
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In Good condition, no dust jacket. Green cloth boards with the series' stamped architectural column design and black lettering to the front, gilt lettering to the spine. Moderate shelf wear with a hint of color loss along edges, soiling and staining to both covers, moderate toning to the spine. Binding tight. Previous owner's name inked twice to front free endpaper. Pages toned with occasional light spotting, otherwise unmarked.An introductory agriculture textbook in Macmillan's Rural Text-Book Series, edited by L.H. Bailey, surveying the major North American field crops with chapters on crop rotation, cultivation, and grain marketing. By George Livingston, Assistant Professor of Agronomy at Ohio State University. First published April 1914; this is the September 1914 printing, an early same-year reprint.Contents: Introductory View; Crop Rotations; Corn or Maize; Wheat; Oats; Barley; Rye; Rice and Buckwheat; The Perennial Grasses; Other Perennial Grasses; Annual Grasses for Grain and Forage; Legumes in General; The Clovers; Alfalfa; The Vetches, Sweet Clovers, and Others; Legumes for Grain and Forage; Root Crops and Related Products; The Fiber Crops; The Potato; Meadows and Pastures; The Marketing of Grain; Appendix; Index.