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Determining the Age of Cattle by the Teeth — Text and Context
Livestock
3,525 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Devils Postpile National Monument, California [1984] — Reading Companion
Gardening
4,017 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming (1949) — Story, Setting & Ideas
Gardening
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Explore Public-Domain Works in History, Law and Social Inquiry
The TIUIK Historical Agriculture Library assembles 100 public-domain books from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on practical farming, gardening, plant science, and livestock. The catalogue spans manuals on beekeeping, poultry, fruit cultivation, and horse breeding, alongside social histories of rural life and land use. Entries include author details, keywords, reading notes, and source attribution to Project Gutenberg. Categories—Farming, Gardening, Plants Soil, and Livestock—serve as flexible browsing aids, often overlapping to reflect a work's multiple facets. Whether you're a historian, gardener, or farmer, these texts illuminate both historical practices and enduring principles of cultivation and husbandry.
100 public-domain works122 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
Agriculture — Editor’s Selection
Newly Catalogued by TIUIK
The book of the cat — Themes and...
In Gardening
Carrots, mangold wurtzels and su...
In Gardening
Ponies past and present — Text a...
In Gardening
The plums of New York — A Reader...
In Plants ...
Profitable poultry — Inside the ...
In Gardening
Justin Morgan, founder of his ra...
In Gardening
On the improved beet root, as wi...
In Gardening
The Corning Egg Farm book, by Co...
In Gardening
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