Farm Equipment and How to Use It
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Is your spike-tooth harrow cutting too deep? Planning to add a hog building? Or, are you struggling with the decision to use gas engines or stick with your equine business “partners?” In Farm Equipment and How to Use It (The Lyons Press, $18.95 softcover, August 2001) find help to those questions and others and learn the history of what the American farm was like at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Originally published in 1917, this classic guide presents every topic of importance to the challenge of equipping a successful and fully functional farm. It offers useful and handy advice on such issues as laying out the farm, lighting the farm home, establishing sources of water, and arranging for sewage disposal for the farmhouse. Included are detailed narratives on the many indispensable farm tools—tillers, seeding machinery, manure spreaders, grain binders, and corn harvesters.
With descriptive illustrations, diagrams, plans, and photographs, this book will prove as interesting to the current farmer for its still prudent advice on the timeless problems of farm management as it will to the history buff who wishes to envision what the American farm was like at the turn of the century.
Farm Equipment and How to Use It joins Household Conveniences and How to Make Them as a new release for Fall 2001. Other popular titles in the Lyon’s Press Home Improvement series include Ernest Thompson’s Big Book of Country Living, The Homestead Builder: Practical Hints for Handy-men, and Horses, Mules, Ponies and How to Keep Them.
HARRY C. RAMSOWER was a professor of agricultural engineering at the College of Agriculture at Ohio State University.
FARM EQUIPMENT and HOW to USE IT
By Harry C. Ramsower
ISBN 1-58574-353-4 - $18.95 softcover • 6 x 9 • 525 pages - August 2001 |
