A beautifully preserved large folio of this important early California publication, issued weekly in issues of 24pp.
California Cultivator. Los Angeles to San Fancisco. July through December, 1907. 640pp.
Illustrated extensively throughout, the volume contains a trove of information relevant to early 20th century California farming, culture, etc.
Contents include: National Aid to Irrigation [on deviating water from other states to California]; Treatment of Gooseberry Mildrew; Hints for Berry Packers; Life Stock and Dairy; Cholera in Hogs; With the Citrus Growers; Subirrigation in Florida; Profit in the Poultry Yard; Bees and their Care - Colonizing a New Swarm; Sociology and Irrigation. Written by W. A. Beard, Chairman of the Committee of the National Irrigation Congress to be Held in Sacramento, September 2-14, 1907; Growing Ginseng [includes content on the Chinese]; Pruning Oranges; Orange Culture in Florida; Walnut Litigation; A Plea for More Honey and Honey Production; Grading Potatoes in California; Green Bugs and their Destroyers; California Eucalypts; The Modern Milking Machine. A Description and Photographs of the Process of Extracting Lacteal Fluid by Machinery at the Rabb Dairy near Los Angeles [series]; Pruning Apple Trees; American Apple Growers Congress; Bees and their Care; Resources of Colusa County; Nurserymen and Boards of Horticulture; a Paper Read by John Isaac before the Pacific Coast Nurserymen at Salem, Oregon; The Evil of Shipping Green Oranges; Recipes for Canning Peaches, Cherries, Plums, Strawberries, Gooseberries, etc. ; Famine in Human Hair [shortage of wigs and toupees]; Bee Sting Cure for Rheumatism; A Florida Green House System for Fancy Fruits and Vegetables; The White Fly Panic; Date Culture in the Southwest; The Great Holstein Cow; Bee Keeping in California; Anthrax; Pitch Your Tent at Home - Summer Vacation at Home may be Better than any Beach or Mountain Trip; Sacramento as a Summer Resort; Snake Bite Remedies; Avoiding Baldness; The National Irrigation Congress; Restoration of the Forests and Descration of Nature; The Raisin Festival at Fresno; The California State Fair; The Jersey as an Economic Dairy Cow; Goat Milk; Tobacco Raising in California; Billy Miller's Circus Show; Value of Bees to Farmers; Common Schools and the Farm Youth by L.H. Bailey; Contagious Abortion in Cattle; Citrus Fruits for the Nation; Irrigated Lands Demand Reforestation - Replanting Watersheds; Using of the Divining Rod; All Hallows Eve; Irrigation - The Greatest Need of Arid America; How Old Stock Ranches are Giving Way to More Scientific Stock Handling; The Dedication of Farm and State Institute; Relative Value of Horses and Mules; California Bred Prize Winners [Dutch Belted Cows; Percheron Stallion; Berkshire Pigs; Apoland-China Boar; and Shorthorns]; California Angoras; Effects of the California Peach Blight; Curing Figs; Beekeeping; The Effect of Nurse Crops on Alfalfa; Papsalum Grass a Native of America; Raising Thoroughbred Poultry; Pigeon Breeding; Pineapple Culture; Effort to Reform the Revenue Laws. The Injustice which Farmers have been Subjected to for Generations should be Corrected; A Four-Hundred-Inch Riverside Well; How to Make the Best Bacon; etc. etc. etc.
Very good in early, faded but sturdy and clean pebbled cloth. Paper very good, but tender as usual for newsprint of this age. Very solidly bound.