Taylor, J. Orville. The Farmers' School Book. Ithaca, [New York]: Mack, Andrus, & Woodruff, 1837. First Edition. [12180]
Brown leather spine with gilt title and lines, printed paper over card (hardcover), binding intact with very good joints yet scuffed and worn, especially on the back cover. 5 3/4 x 4 inches. Worming to the end paper hinges. 236 pages, tight, light foxing throughout. Good. Hardcover.
"This work contains the most important information on Agriculture."
"Stereotyped by Francis F. Ripley, New York."
"This little work has been published to take the place of such useless, unintelligible reading. Its object is to give children, while they are receiving their school education, a scientific, practical knowledge of the labours of manhood." - Preface.
Chapters on soil, manures, different crops, silk, beet sugar, cattle, oxen, milk and cream, cheese, swine, horses, &c.
John Orville Taylor (1807-1890), writer of several American school texts.
