Saving Man Labor in Sugar-beet Fields Issued 1919, revised 1928
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1928. Pamphlet. 14p., pamphlet fastened with a single staple, 9x6 inches, photo-illustrated with a plethora of b&w photography (most pages feature two photos sandwiched with paragraphs of text). Expect shots of lots of turned soil, a variety of tractors & disks etc., men in overalls, and many backsides of horses. Spinefold is split badly at the tail and a little at the top, staple rusted with only a touch of migration, find a faint Berkeley accession stamp dated 1929. A servicable copy with some dust-soil and small creasings, as is. Farmers' Bulletin no. 1042; revised by R.S. Washburn, contains added material.
Subjects: plowing, disking, spike-tooth harrowing, spring-tooth harrowing, cultivating, lifting, mechanical lifters and toppers, and hauling.
Cat.No: 335728
Price: $20.00