Fur Farming: A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc.Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
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Fur Farming: A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc.
Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
Fur-bearing animals
Showing Root, Stock, Leaves and Seed.]
This is only one of about 75 illustrations shown in "Ginseng and Other
Medicinal Plants" as described on opposite page. The illustrations are
of actual "gardens," as well as some fifty of the most valuable
medicinal plants true to life. After reading this book and looking
closely at the illustrations you should be able to distinguish the
various plants. The paper used is of good quality so that the
illustrations are clear and distinct.
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Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants
This book contains about 300 pages and 75 illustrations (see opposite
page for one of them) with chapters on the following: The Story of
Ginseng; Something About Ginseng; Cultivation of Ginseng; Marketing
Ginseng; Seeds and Roots; Letters From Ginseng Growers; Government
Reports; Ginseng in China; General Information; Habits of Ginseng;
Ginseng Prices; Diseases of Ginseng; Medicinal Qualities; Golden Seal
Cultivation; Plants as a Source of Revenue; List of Plants Having
Medicinal Value; Gigantic Mint Farm in Michigan.
The publishers say--A Book of Valuable Information for Growers and
Collectors of Wild Medicinal Plants--Tells How to Grow, Medicinal Uses,
Value, Etc.
Much additional information is also given about other Plants which
furnish Root Drugs, such as: Male Fern; Wild Turnip; Skunk Cabbage;
Sweet Flag; Helonias; American Hellebore; Aletris; Bethroot; Wild Yam;
Blue Flag; Lady's Slipper; Crawley Root; Canada Snakeroot; Serpentaria
(Southern Snakeroot); Yellow Dock; Pokeweed; Soapwort; Goldthread; Black
Cohosh; Oregon Grape; Blue Cohosh; Twinleaf; Mayapple; Canada Moonseed;
Bloodroot; Hydrangea; Indian Physic; Wild Indigo; Crane's Bill; Seneca
Snakeroot; Stillingia; Wild Sarsaparilla; Water Eryngo; American
Angelica; Yellow Jasmine; Pinkroot; American Colombo; Black Indian Hemp;
Pleurisy Root; Comfrey; Stoneroot; Culvers Root; Dandelion;
Queen-of-the-Meadow; Elecampane; Echinacea; Burdock.
A good photograph of each of these is shown with the description.
Considerable money can be made collecting and preparing for the market.
This book explains in detail.
Price, cloth bound, postpaid, $1.00
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Land Cruising and Prospecting
Is a valuable book for homesteaders, hunters, trappers, guides, etc. The
writer--Mr. A. F. Wallace, an experienced surveyor, land cruiser and
prospector--in his introduction says: "To the men who follow the
compass, the trap and the trail this work is inscribed. It is not
intended for the "Professors" who can tell you all about things after
they are done (by somebody else)."
The publishers say: A book of Valuable Information for hunters,
trappers, land cruisers, prospectors and men of the trail--tells how to
locate one's self on the map, etc.
This book contains about 200 pages 5 x 7 inches, is printed on good
quality paper, with nearly 40 illustrations and contains 20 chapters as
follows:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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