Source connection
Connect catalogue entries to the files and references currently available.
Reader tools
View all tools →
Choose, compare, and track a book from this collection
Independent digital catalogue
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
A closer look
Collection Spotlight
One work and three nearby readings from the current catalogue.
Plants Soil
A history of Vermont's maple sug...
Authored by Authors: Vermont Maple Sugar Maker..., 'A history of Vermont's maple sug...' stands as a notable and significant work within the Plants Soil category. This 1912 publication by the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association combines a history of maple sugaring from Indigenous practices to early 20th-century methods, with practical guidance on grading, purity, and recipes, while advocating for the industry against adulteration and deforestation. Explore the nuanced perspectives and historical context offered in this document.
View catalogue recordNewly 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
Record framework
How This Catalogue Works
Explains how records are presented and linked without changing the represented source texts.
Metadata organization
Display clear title, author, and edition details to make discovery easier.
Collection grouping
Group works by recurring subjects, literary settings, and historical research questions.
Context layer
Describe relationships between records while keeping the original wording of source texts intact.
About these records
Frequently Asked Questions
How the collection is organized, presented and corrected.
It generally means that the represented source text is no longer protected by copyright in the applicable jurisdiction or has been released for public use. Status may vary by country and edition.
A record may include the title, author, category, cover, description, edition information, source references and available reading or download options.
A category reflects a work’s principal subjects, literary setting, source type and relationship to nearby records in the collection.
The catalogue adds navigation, metadata and editorial context. The represented source text retains its wording, edition information and rights status.
Use the contact page and include the work title, page address and the exact attribution, category, metadata or source detail requiring attention.
Catalogue stewardship
TIUIK Catalogue
Catalogue information
TIUIK Catalogue manages the overall structure of our digital library, which includes 100 books by 122 authors across 4 categories. They ensure the reliability of these collections.
