Fifty-sixth Annual Report of the New York State Agricultural Society, For the Year 1896. Albany and New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, 1897. First Edition. [10281]
Brown cloth with blind borders, dull gilt titles & design to spine with small paper label at base, 9 x 6 inches. xxxii., 786 clean pp., several illustrations. Hinge behind title page sprung. Good. Hardcover.
Besides the reports there are several interesting articles, including The Sugar Beet: Culture, Seed Development, Manufacture, and Statistics (with 24 pp. of b/w illustrations); Improved Methods of Cultivating and Harvesting Farm Crops; Potatoes for the general Market - The Key to Success; Growing Tobacco; Strawberries for Home Use; Elements of Successful Dairying; The Farmers' Garden; Value of Birds to the Farmer; Educating Boys for the Farm; the Farm Home; &c.
