SUGGESTED REFERENCE LIST
Reading edition
Timely and valuable publications of the United States Department of Agriculture, state departments of agriculture and state agricultural colleges and experiment stations are available to country residents. Copies of them may be obtained by writing to the agencies mentioned. To supplement them and also to supplement advice received from county agricultural agents, a number of useful books are listed below. Those interested in them may, in many cases, obtain them from local libraries, or may find it useful to own certain of them themselves.
Author Title Year Publisher
Agee, Alva “First Steps in Farming” 1923 Harper
Arnold, Schuyler “Wayside Marketing” 1929 De La Mare
Auchter, E. C., and Knapp, H. B. “Orchard and Small Fruit Culture” 1929 Wiley
Ayres, Q. C., and Scoates, D. “Land Drainage and Reclamation” 1928 McGraw-Hill
Bailey, L. H. “Manual of Gardening,” Rev. ed. 1925 Macmillan
Bear, E. “Soil Management” 1927 Wiley
“Theory and Practice in the Use of Fertilizers” 1929 Wiley
Bottomley, M. E. “Design of Small Properties; a Book for the Home-Owner in City and Country.” 1926 Macmillan
Bush-Brown, Mrs. Louise (Carter) “Flowers for Every Garden” 1927 Little
Chenoweth, W. W. “Food Preservation; a Textbook for Student, Teacher, Homemaker and Home Factory Operator” 1930 Wiley
Chupp, C. “Manual of Vegetable Garden Diseases” 1925 Macmillan
“Manual of Vegetable Garden Insects” 1925 Macmillan
Cline, L. E. “Turkey Production” 1933 Orange Judd
Cox, J. F. “Crop Production and Management” 1930 Wiley
Crosby, C. R., and Leonard, M. D. “Manual of Vegetable Garden Insects” 1918 Macmillan
Davenport, Eugene “The Farm” 1927 Macmillan
Foster, W. H., and Carter, D. G. “Farm Buildings” 1928 Wiley
Fraser, Samuel “American Fruits; Their Propagation, Cultivation, Harvesting and Distribution” 1927 Judd
Fraser, W. J. “Dairy Farming” 1930 Wiley
Galpin, C. J. “Rural Social Problems” 1924 Century
Gustafson, A. F. “Handbook of Fertilizers” 1932 Orange Judd
Hottes, A. C. “1001 Garden Questions Answered” 1930 De La Mare
Hurd, L. M. “Practical Poultry Farming” 1931 Macmillan
Jull, M. A. “Poultry Husbandry” 1930 McGraw-Hill
Knott, J. E. “Vegetable Growing” 1930 Lea
Langstroth, L. L., and Dadant, Charles “Honey Bee,” Rev. by C. P. Dadant, Ed. 23 1927 American Bee Journal
Larson, C. W., and Putney, F. S. “Dairy Cattle Feeding and Management” 1928 Wiley
Lewis, H. R. “Productive Poultry Husbandry” 1928 Lippincott
Lippincott, W. A. “Poultry Production” 1927 Lea & Febiger
Millar, C. E. “Soils and Soil Management” 1929 Webb Pub. Co.
Murray, P. “Planning and Planting the Home Garden” 1932 Orange Judd
Pellett, F. C. “Productive Bee-Keeping” 1923 Lippincott
Phillips, E. F. “Bee Keeping; a Discussion of the Honey Bee and of the Production of Honey,” Rev. ed. 1928 Macmillan
Powers, W. L., and Teeter, T. A. H. “Land Drainage for Farmers” 1922 Wiley
Rice, J. E. “Practical Poultry Management” 1930 Wiley
Rice, J. E., and Botsford, H. E. “Practical Poultry Management” 1925 Wiley
Root, A. I., and Root, E. R. “ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture” 1923 Root
Rose, M. S. “Feeding the Family” 1928 Macmillan
Rowe, H. G. “Starting Right With Bees” 1922 A. I. Root Co.
Sanderson, E. D. “Insects Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard,” Ed. 2, rev. and enl. by L. M. Peairs 1921 Wiley
Sears, F. C. “Productive Orcharding; Modern Methods of Growing and Marketing Fruit” 1927 Lippincott
“Productive Small Fruit Culture” 1925 Lippincott
Sharp, M. A. “Principles of Farm Mechanics” 1930 Wiley
Smith, R. H. “Agricultural Mechanics” 1925 Lippincott
Thompson, H. C. “Vegetable Crops” 1931 McGraw-Hill
Thorne, C. E. “Maintenance of Soil Fertility” 1930 Orange Judd
Watts, R. L. “Vegetable Gardening” 1921 Orange Judd
Worthen, E. L. “Farm Soils, Their Management and Fertilization” 1927 Wiley
SOME FARM AND GARDEN MAGAZINES
General
American Agriculturist New York, N. Y.
Country Gentleman Philadelphia, Pa.
Farm Journal Philadelphia, Pa.
New England Homestead Springfield, Mass.
New Jersey Farm and Garden Sea Isle City, N. J.
Pennsylvania Farmer Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rural New Yorker New York, N. Y.
Beekeeping
American Bee Journal Hamilton, Ill.
American Honey Producer Producers’ League, Fargo, N. D.
Bee-Cause Watertown, Wis.
Gleanings in Bee Culture Medina, Ohio
Dairying
Ayrshire Digest Spencer, Mass.
Dairy Farmer Des Moines, Iowa
Guernsey Breeders’ Journal Peterboro, N. H.
Hoard’s Dairyman Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Holstein-Friesian World Laconia, N. Y.
Jersey Bulletin Indianapolis, Ind.
Flower Gardening
American Home Garden City, N. Y.
Better Homes and Gardens Des Moines, Iowa
Flower Grower Calcium, N. Y.
Gardener’s Chronicle of AmericaNew York, N. Y.
Horticulture Boston, Mass.
Fruit Growing
American Fruit Grower Chicago, Ill.
Better Fruit Portland, Ore.
Livestock
Breeders’ Gazette Chicago, Ill.
Market Gardening
Market Growers’ Journal Louisville, Ky.
Poultry
American Poultry Journal Chicago, Ill.
Everybody’s Poultry Magazine Hanover, Pa.
New England Poultryman Boston, Mass.
Poultry Garden and Home Dayton, Ohio
Poultry Item Sellersville, Pa.
Poultry Success Springfield, Ohio
Poultry Tribune Mt. Morris, Ill.
Footnotes:
[1] Prepared by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.
[2] Prepared by Michigan State College of Agriculture.
[3] Prepared by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.
[4] New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.