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Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmer’s Wife magazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find — and share — advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. One of the magazine’s most popular offerings was advice on cooking and baking, providing farm family recipes for making everything from basic bread to nourishing stews and delicious desserts. The Best of The Farmer’s Wife Cookbook brings together 400 easy-to-follow recipes and variations along with dozens of menus that originated in farm kitchens nationwide and appeared on the pages of the magazine between 1893 and 1939.

Readers will be able to prepare these foods easily and quickly, because the recipes have been updated to match the conveniences and ingredients of the modern kitchen. The Best of The Farmer’s Wife Cookbook is sure to satisfy readers in search of the flavors of farm country or those simply on the lookout for a piece of homegrown nostalgia.

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Powered implements have ruled the farm for decades, but that wasn't always the case, as these reprints from a select group of early implement manufacturers illustrate. From small-time Harrison Machine Works, manufacturer of the famous Jumbo steam traction engines and Belleville Threshers, to giant McCormick Reaper Works, whose 1896 catalog was published just six years before McCormick became part of manufacturing heavyweight International Harvester Corporation, these catalogs are a walk back to a time when getting the work done meant harnessing the horses or steaming up the traction engine.

The Belleville Thresher Harrison Machine Works 1891: Featuring jumbo engines, Belleville threshers and swinging strawstackers manufactured by this Belleville, Ill., firm.

McCormick Harvesting Machinery 1896: Beautiful reprint of the 1896 catalog, which details horse-drawn equipment including Machine of Steel harvester and binder, Daisy reaper, transports, corn harvesters and mowers.

IHC Spraying Outfits: Covering water-, hopper-and air-cooled outfits in 1 and 2 HP sizes plus lots of spraying advice.

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The gas tractor changed American farming practices forever, and this selection of vintage reprints underscores just a few of the challenges and triumphs of new tractor technology. While the Service Manual for John Deere Tractors and Engines underscores the mechanical knowledge farmers needed to function in a changing landscape, Evolution of a Tractor – International Harvester celebrates the success of mechanized farming and the changes that tractors rapidly incorporated to become easier and more appealing. Likewise, A History of the Eagle Manufacturing Company highlights the ingenuity of a smaller player in the farm tractor field, showing that in this highly competitive market, good ideas didn’t always spell success.

Service Manual for John Deere Tractors and Engines: Full of instructions on care and repair of D and GP tractors and E engines. Numerous illustrations and detailed service charts, lubrication chart and information on plow-hitch and drawbar adjustments.

Evolution of a Tractor: Original reminiscences of IHC executives from April 1920 that includes factory photos not published elsewhere, plus manuscript and illustrations from collector Leroy Baumgardner Jr.

A History of the Eagle Manufacturing Company: The history of this Appleton, Wis., tractor company is told with the help of numerous photos and charts.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, John Deere’s tractors evolved dramatically from small machines into large, powerful tractors with modern advances and muscular engines; it was a period of the greatest changes since the 1920s. Deere christened these tractors the New Generation. This book in the Tractor Legacy series examines these Big Green machines in detail, with archival and current photography of restored tractors, a thorough historical text, and details of model specifications and variations.

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New from Gas Engine Magazine Preservations Series: Coolspring, Discovering America’s Finest Antique Engine Museum.

For more than 25 years, the Coolspring Power Museum in Coolspring, Pa., has been recognized as housing the world’s finest collection of early and historically significant internal combustion engines. Designated a Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the museum boasts a collection of more than 250 engines in 20 buildings, 40 of which are profiled here in a museum overview edited by former Gas Engine Magazine editor Christian Williams.

If you’ve visited the museum before, you’ll appreciate the unique selection of engines profiled here. And, if you’ve never had the opportunity to visit Coolspring personally, you’ll simply be amazed to discover the incredible selection of historically important and technically fascinating engines preserved for engine lovers everywhere in the most amazing museum of its kind in Coolspring, Discovering America’s Finest Antique Engine Museum.

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With more than 2,000 black–and–white illustrations and clear, practical instructions given by expert handyman and blacksmith Paul N. Hasluck, Metalworking offers everything you need to know to turn a chunk of metal into a useful and well–crafted product.

From building a blast furnace and polishing metals to forging iron and steel and spinning metals on a lathe, this comprehensive guidebook includes the tools, materials, and processes that are fundamental to the art of metalworking. Included here is information on working sheet metals, gold, and silver; building a dynamo and electric motor; making a vertical steam engine; and more!

This ultimate, do–it–yourself guide to metalworking is ideal for all handymen and women, do–it–yourself–types, and industry professionals —amateur and seasoned alike!

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For the first time, a detailed step-by-step guide to stationary gas engine restoration has been written for engine enthusiasts. From start to finish, Peter Rooke's newly revised, easy-to-follow narrative will impress and educate both new and experienced hobbyists with exhaustive coverage of the process.

In 112 pages, Rooke meticulously leads you from stripping an engine through rebuilding each component — from bearings to cylinder head to ignition. Tips along the way cover everything from repairing damaged threads to removing rust and zinc plating.

A new chapter on building your own magneto charger has been added to this newly revised edition of Gas Engine Restoration. Other chapters include information on rebuilding engine carts as well as painting engines, whether applying new paint or preserving old finish. Included are data tables containing reference information such as various bolt head and nut sizes, copper wire sizes and bearing tolerances.

The book has a soft, durable cover and a convenient lay-flat spiral binding that allows you to keep your hands at work while you follow along.