Published in 1898, this abundantly illustrated trade catalog advertised tools, fertilizers, insecticides, and other essentials for the turn-of-the-century garden, farm, greenhouse, lawn, orchard, poultry yard, stable, and household. Includes butter printers, cast-iron field rollers, broadcast seeders, corn harvesters and huskers, root cutters, cider mills, veterinary remedies, and more. Approximately 680 black-and-white illustrations.
The original title was Catalogue of tools and implements, fertilizers, insecticides, and essentials. This reprint faithfully reproduces Henderson's (New York) 1898 catalog in its original format with headings, advertising, index, and engravings. A history of the Henderson Company and its catalog is also provided in an introduction written for this edition by Victor M. Linoff. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR