Intensive Culture of Vegetables on the French System
The topic of French gardening was all the rage in England before WWI. This is one of three books on the topic we have discovered.
French Market-Gardening
In the late 19th century Parisian market gardeners developed novel procedures to produce out of season vegetables under glass and very high productivity outdoors using raised beds and abundant horse manure compost. These methods inspired the raised bed intensive system…
The French Garden
The French system of intensive market-gardening aroused great interest in England which is why this practical treatise was published. It is the librarian's opinion that this usually practiced Asian system was brought to France by colonists who took over Vietnam…
The Vegetable Garden
Illustrations, descriptions and culture of the garden vegetables of cold and temperate climates, written by Mm. Vilmorin-Andrieux of Paris. Written originally in 1885, this edition has been translated into English and contains additional varieties.
Henley’s Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes
Containing ten thousand selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes and money saving methods for the practical use of manufacturers, mechanics, housekeepers and home workers.
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Dependence on AMA-style medicine creates ill health on many levels. Many of the most expensive procedures have little or no proven health benefit or at best add but a few tortured years. Illich is an extreme libertarian who refuses to be suppressed and sees most of modern society as an effort to suppress the humanity of those in its grip.
Why The Best-Laid Investment Plans Usually Go Wrong
You might think an investment guide written in 1987 couldn't be relevant to the current scene. Not so. The first 200 pages examines and demolishes all the usual investment strategies/sales pitches because these usually result in loss. Then Browne introduces the idea of a "permanent portfolio," a mixture of very low overhead investments whose inevitable ups and downs balance each other resulting in moderate profit with great stability.
Treatise on Bread, and Bread-Making
A classic by the creator of Graham bread and other early American health foods.
Comfrey Report: The Story of the World’s Fastest Protein Builder and Herbal Healer
Hill's final statement, information, facts and figures about comfrey.
Russian Comfrey
The long titles goes "A Hundred Tons an Acre of Stock or Compost for Farm, Garden or Smallholding." Covers growing, harvest and feeding results feeding comfrey to livestock and for making compost with it. Handsomely illustrated.
Herdsmanship
The art of handling diary cattle, with a full battery of natural remedies and a discussion of proper feeding, handling TB positive animals and curing hoof and mouth disease without mass slaughter.
The Clandestine Farm
How to garden without owning land. Takes a fresh and inspiring look at land ownership, private property rights and eco-ethics.
Grass Tetany
Understanding how soil imbalances produce this livestock disease illuminates aspects of how human health depends upon nutritional balances.
Three Acres And Liberty
A passionate plea for independence and self-sufficiency on small, intensively worked acreages. Hall illuminates the social forces propelling people into city poverty when they could live with simple liberty and plenty in the country.
The Country Housewife’s Family Companion, with a modern introduction by Malcolm Thick
A complete how-to manual of country skills; how-to make everything from bacon to medicine. The book creates an appreciation for mid-18th century English country life; it reveals how the diet and habits of the era created the diseases that demanded the medicines listed.
Gardening for Profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden
Henderson was a master market gardener selling into the New York City market. He had effective techniques for wintering over vegetables, for producing out of season. The contemporary crop of garden gurus have nothing on this man.
Flight From The City
Chronicles the Borsodi family's journey from job-in-the-city to self-sufficient country independence during the prosperity of the 1920s. During the Great Depression many people saw this book as a guiding light toward financial security and a much better life.
Fifty Years Among the Bees
One hundred eleven photographic figures; fifty years of experience. This book has long been a classic among beekeepers.
Construction Of A Simplified Wood Gas Generator
Construction Of A Simplified Wood Gas Generator for Fueling Internal Combustion Engines In A Petroleum Emergency--Final Report.