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  • The Farm Workshop - With Information on Tools and Buildings

    This book comprises a handy little guide on maintaining a farm workshop, with information on the tools and buildings required for a productive workshop. Written in clear, understandable language and including simple instructions and helpful illustrations, this book constitutes a handy resource for anyone with an interest in setting up a farm workshop. It will make for a worthy addition to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm.

    "Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm" by Herbert A. Shearer is a comprehensive guide that explores the integration of machinery in agricultural practices. The book emphasizes the importance of mechanization in enhancing productivity and efficiency on farms. Shearer discusses various types of machinery, their functions, and how they can significantly reduce the ... Read more

    $0.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farm Conveniences - With Information on the Farm Office, Feeding Racks, Seed Houses and Various Other Farm Equipment

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farm Mechanics

    Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm.

    Series Book 7 - Living With The Land
    More mechanical knowledge is required on the farm than in any other line of business. If a farmer is not mechanically inclined, he is under the necessity of employing someone who is.Some farms are supplied with a great many handy contrivances to save labor. Farmers differ a great deal in this respect. Some are natural mechanics, some learn how to buy and how to operate the best farm machinery, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

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    $17.99 USD

  • Mission Furniture

    Henry Haven Windsor published these precious advises on creating furniture in 1909 in the collection Handbooks. Nowadays reading this simple manual allows to create the most beautiful chairs, tables, book racks etc. of the beginnings of the 19th century, avoiding ordinary do-it-yourself books.This edition contains several accurate instructions for create 33 different types of furniture, moreover ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Butchering Livestock at Home

    Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-65

    Series Book 65 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    This introductory guide explains the basics of butchering your meat at home, from preparing your animals and equipment through to storing your meat. Covers rabbits, poultry, sheep, goats, veal calves, beef, and hogs and includes information on how to process and use organ meats, pelts and hides, feathers, bones and horns, and fat. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Tractors

    1880s to 1980s

    by Nick Baldwin ...
    Series Book 577 - Shire Library
    Steam, and then cumbersome motor, tractors existed in small numbers before 1914, after which the need to produce more foods using less horse and man power saw the origins of the machine we know today. Thanks to mass production, Ford brought the price down to suit average farmers, and in the 1920s to 1940s numerous rivals brought in such novelties as diesel engines, pneumatic tyres, hydraulic ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources

    Plantation and Ornamental Crops

    Edited by Chittaranjan Kole ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts. This work includes comprehensive examinations of the status, origin, distribution, morphology, cytology, genetic diversity and available genetic and genomic resources of numerous wild crop relatives, as well as of their evolution and phylogenetic relationship. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Coltan

    by Michael Nest ...
    Series series Resources
    A decade ago no one except geologists had heard of tantalum or 'coltan' - an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and laptops. Then, in 2000, reports began to leak out of Congo: of mines deep in the jungle where coltan was extracted in brutal conditions watched over by warlords. The United Nations sent a team to investigate, and its exposé of the relationship between ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Wine Grape Varieties

    This book describes 92 of the most popular wine grape varieties currently used by wine makers around the world plus some that may have a place in the future. It builds on the earlier edition of Wine Grape Varieties of Australia, by including new varieties of grape and updating critical information. The book enables readers to easily identify a particular variety using lavish colour photographs of ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • How to Raise Day-old Chicks in Your Back Yard

    Raising Chickens / Poultry

    by S. J. Robson ...
    The author, S.J. Robson, has made a reference book for those wanting to raise chickens / poultry for the first time. Such basics as heat and space needs, brooder and coop layout, feeding and more, for both layer and broiler chickens, are all covered. Information on fully grown hens and roosters is also included. A number of problems likely to be encountered in a small flock are given, and there is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD