Author: USDA
Title: Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture - 1913
Description: Wash. D.C. Government Printing Office, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Deep purple cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to front and spine. Color frontis/many photos. Corners just a tiny bit nudged, and one or two very small, and faint waterstains to front board. Front pastedown bears the inked stamp of California U.S. House of Representatives James H. MacLafferty. The stamped impression reads: "From James H. MacLafferty, Representative in Congress, 6th District California (Alameda County)". This issue has a wonderful, LONG (60+pp) section of the cultivation of hemp in the U.S. including seed collection, cleaning, cultivation, cost of production, varieties and uses worldwide, etc, etc. Note: this is the original printing, not a facsimile copy. Extraordinarily beautiful, full-page color plates by botanical Iilustrators Ellen Isham Schutt, and Amanda Almira Newton of the Banana Apple, the McCroskey Apple, the Opalescent Apple, the Lizzie Peach, The Flowers Grape, The James Grape, The Triumph Persimmon, The Lue Orange, The Boone Chestnut. Beautiful copy of a now, elusive USDA Handbook, and its crown jewel is the lengthy article on Hemp cultivation and production, long suppressed, and finally beginning to see the light of day as a viable and multipurposed commodity. Includes 60 page article on Hemp production in the United Strates. Other articles cover Bringing Entomology to the Farmer; American Thrushes; What the Department of Agriculture is doing for the Housekeeper; Practical Tree Surgery; Supplementing our Meat Supply with Fish; Economic Waste from Soil Erosion; The Grain Sorghums; The South American Meat Industry, Promising New Fruits, and more. Ill.: E.J. Schutt; A.A. Newton. Near Fine .

Keywords: Hemp Cultivation, Hemp Farming, Clothing, Thc, Tetrahydrocannabinol, Marijuana, Cannabis Indica, Hempiculture, Hemp Industry, Color Plates, E.J. Schutt; A.A. Newton;