Name/Title
"Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1858: Agriculture"Entry/Object ID
2008.379.1.1Description
"Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1858: Agriculture", comprising Ex. Doc. 105 of the House of Representatives, 35th Congress, 2d Session (Washington: James B. Steedman, Printer,) 1859. There is material on agricultural education, questions used for compiling state statistics, new agricultural societies and organizations, tables of imports and exports from 1851 to 1858, material on animals (including a short essay on sheep-rearing in California), items on land improvement, a section of forage and other crops, a portion on grape and wine-culture (including a portion of a report on California including Los Angeles activities and a full short article by Mathew Keller on "The Grapes and Wine of Los Angeles"), a report on fruit culture, and a segment on meteorology. At the back is an index. There are missing portions at page 81-94 and 337-338, the boards are heavily worn, faded, and stained, and the binding is loose, so the condition is fair.Lexicon
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