Seager Wheeler's Book on Profitable Grain Growing

Wheeler, Seager

Winnipeg, 1919


$75.00
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Details

Hardcover, 351 pages, 7.5x5 in - 19x12 cm, B&W photographs and illustrations.

Condition

Lacks as issued dust jacket. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and bottom edge, back cover scratched. Spine bumped and rubbed at head and heel. Front free endpaper chipped and carries a modern day Wheeler news clipping. Pp.115, 328-9, final page of adverts at rear, and rear paste-down discolored (likely from newsprint storage). Split gutters at pp.44-45, 204-205, 220-221, 236-237, 284-285, and 300-301. Overall, a clean and handsome copy.

Notes

Second edition. This guide was written by Saskatchewan farming innovator and award-winning wheat grower Seager Wheeler (it also features Wheeler's biography by former Manitoba Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Hopkins Moorhouse). Wheeler provides a comprehensive guide to growing crops on the Canadian prairies, starting with soil and seed selection and moving through cultivation/planting/harvest to sales and exhibitions. While Wheeler provides some advice for growing corn and potatoes, his major emphasis is on grains (including wheat, barley, and oats). His tone is professional but not technical, his photographs capture agriculture practices during Canada's wheat boom, and his guidance is all-encompassing (ranging from controlling drifting soil to placating unhappy purchasers). Peel(3) 4545.