Agricultural Books

Agricultural Books

Ag1. "The Agricultural Gazette of NSW" August 1979. Magazine in very good condition, regular features plus the folowing special articles: Australian Plague Locust, Insecticides can kill bees, aerial seeding in Iran, using goats to control blackberries and briars, the nursery industry, black-headed pasture cockchafer, cane harvesting, sheep measles, Arlt stubble retention system.

$5.00

Ag2. Australian Cotton Textile Industries Limited "Every Inch Australian, The Actil Story of Cotton" softcover booklet, 20 pages, in good condition, slightly grubby on back cover. Contents include: Importance of cotton, uses of cotton, how cotton grows, grades of cotton, from raw cotton into cloth, ginning, manufacturing processes, carding, drawing, roving processes, spinning the yarn, winding, warping, slashing - warp yarn, weaving cloth, careful inspection, bleaching and finishing, dyeing, controlled processing, some special features of Actil Guaranteed Quality Products.

$8.00

Ag3. Campbell, Keith O "Australian Agriculture. Reconciling Change and Tradition" published by Longman Cheshire Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia 1980. Paperback. 8vo. 274 pages. Very good ex lib copy. Contents: Australian Agriculture Today; The Agents Of Change; Institutions Affecting or Serving Agriculture; Public Intervention in Agriculture; Means of Exercising Rural Power and Influence; Farming; New Constraints - New Challenges; Economic Independencies; Index.

$25.00

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