"The Model Farms and Their Methods; Giving the Experience of Over One Hundred Successful Farmers in the Various Branches of Husbandry in Different Portions of the Country; Stock Raising; Fruit Growing; Dairying; Tile Drainage; Cost and Profits of Mixed Husbandry, Etc.," edited by Samuel T.K. Prime, published by A. Knobel & Company (Chicago) in 1881, 6.25" x 9.25" hardcover (leather on boards with title plate on the spine), 807 pages, more than 100 illustrations and plans of buildings. First-person accounts of farmers regarding their farming methods. Organized by state: Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan.
The book is in good condition: Clean contents, tight text block, fly leaf removed, front hinge broken but cover still attached, leather split down the front hinge with the backstrip attached at the back hinge only, scuffing and wear to the boards as shown. No ownership marks. Not ex-library.
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