Author: LORING, George B., Commissioner of Agriculture
Title: Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1883
Description: Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1883. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 496. Heavy 8vo. Bound in original dark brown blind-ruled cloth; gilt titling. All colour plates present & in excellent cond. Corners bumped, bds. sl. scuffed & soiled, conts. clean & tight: very good. Ill.: folding map, coloured plates. With a tipped-in Presentation Slip on which is printed: 'Compliments of Geo. B. Loring Commissioner of Agriculture.' With extensive (usually illustrated) reports from the federal veterinarian (five plates showing diseases among sheep and folding coloured map showing Texas fever in Virginia), botanist (25 plates), entomologist (13 plates - three coloured), Superintendant of Gardens and Grounds, chemist, and statistician (folding diagram); plus appendices on sorghum cane, 'the meat question analyzed', and the forestry division. Extensive Index at end.

Keywords: United States;Farming;Trade;Statistics;Veterinary;Texas;Entymology;Grain growing; folding map, coloured plates


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