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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Public domain books] are freely available works and can hold valuable information relevant to efforts towards sustainability. Generally, these books were published pre 1930's and therefore are from a "simpler" age. The early 1900s are notable in their efficiency studies of household management and small scale production; the 1700s and 1800s explore the practical application of newly found scientific principles. There are also valuable records of traditional arts and crafts. During WW1 there were a number of austerity programs that produced books about living simply and maximising production. | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Public domain books] are freely available works and can hold valuable information relevant to efforts towards sustainability. Generally, these books were published pre 1930's and therefore are from a "simpler" age. The early 1900s are notable in their efficiency studies of household management and small scale production; the 1700s and 1800s explore the practical application of newly found scientific principles. There are also valuable records of traditional arts and crafts. During WW1 there were a number of austerity programs that produced books about living simply and maximising production. | ||
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Public domain books are freely available works and can hold valuable information relevant to efforts towards sustainability. Generally, these books were published pre 1930's and therefore are from a "simpler" age. The early 1900s are notable in their efficiency studies of household management and small scale production; the 1700s and 1800s explore the practical application of newly found scientific principles. There are also valuable records of traditional arts and crafts. During WW1 there were a number of austerity programs that produced books about living simply and maximising production.
BE WARNED: Ignorance of the dangers of using heavy metals (mercury, lead, chromium etc) was prevalent throughout this period and the 1800s especially was particularly bad for crank medicinal treatments for people and animals.
BE AWARE of the profound sexism and racism of the age - we know now that men make excellent housekeepers. In a sustainable society that retains today's liberal attitudes, everyone will need to do their share of domestic duties to compensate for the lack of underclass.
Most scientific knowledge was well understood by the 1900s - plastics, genetics, insulin, antibiotics and nuclear physics were still to come but application of scientific knowledge to daily life was common and sometimes profound - and still ignored today...
WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL?
I would like to see these books assessed for scientific accuracy (to current understanding) so the knowledge in them can be used again, confidently. If a book has worthwhile information, it should have it's own page with a description and any hazards pointed out. If it has been produced into an ebook then particularly good bits could be posted or it could be posted in its entirety as the basis of a wiki page on the subject - with additions, subtractions and discussion to update or expand.
Sources
- Internet Archive - scanned books
- Project Gutenberg- these books have been proofread and produced in plain text and html versions. This makes them searchable and editable, so we can paste sections onto the wiki and discuss/revise.
- Distributed proofreaders (DP) - this is where the scanned texts are converted - they're always looking for more volunteers. If you are interested in producing a particular book, start at DP to build up experience and contact me (zoeannl) through the Kiwi team.
- Distributed Proofreaders list of sources
- Advanced Google Books search - pick "Full view only", search by subject etc and the public domain books will have a "pdf" download tab.
My Bookmarks - http://www.archive.org/bookmarks/zoeannl
Subjects
Appropriate tech
- Labor saving devices for the farm home (1912)
- Home labor saving devices (c1917)
- Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature; (1907)
- The Manufacture Of Organic Dyestuffs (1919)
- Home labor saving devices (c1917)
- Mechanical devices in the home (1922)
- Labor saving devices for the farm home (1912)
- A treatise on hydrostatics and pneumatics (1832)
- Steam and its uses : including the steam engine, the locomotive, and steam navigation (1873)
- The steam engine, steam navigation, roads, and railways, explained and illustrated (1851)
- Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures (1903)
- The Book of English Trades: And Library of the Useful Arts : with Seventy Engravings (1818)
- Carpentry for the building trades (1947)
- Panorama of Professions and Trades, Or, Every Man's Book (1837)
- Everybody's radio manual; how to build and repair radio receivers (1942)
- Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic (1914)
- Glass manufacture (1908)
- Rubber, resins, paints and varnishes (1921)
- Manufacturers' practical recipes : comprising pigments and dry colours, paste and mixed paints, paint oils, vehicles, and mediums, distempers, and sundry paint materials (1902)
- Architectural pottery; bricks, tiles, pipes, enamelled terra-cottas, ordinary and incrusted quarries, stoneware mosaics, faïences, and architectural stoneware (1900)
- Studies in wood decay (1921)
- Earth sewage versus water sewage, or, National health and wealth instead of disease and waste (1868)
- Practical cold storage ; the theory, design and construction of buildings and apparatus for the preservation of perishable products, approved methods of applying refrigeration and the care and handling of eggs, fruit, dairy products, etc (1914) Refrigeration.
- The Priscilla basketry book a collection of baskets and other articles with lessons for working and directions for dyeing and staining (1911)
- The basket maker (1909)
- Raphia and reed weaving, including also cardboard and paper construction; a practical course for primary and elementary schools (1901)
- Hand-loom weaving, plain & ornamental (1920)
- Weaving machinery for cotton, silk, woolen, worsted and special fabrics (1919)
- Practice in weaving and loom-fixing. A complete manual for the weave room.. (1887)
- A practical treatise on weaving by hand and power looms; intended as a text book for manufacturers by hand and power looms, and power loom engineers .. (1846)
- Wooden box and crate construction (1921)
- Hevea brasiliensis; or Para rubber, its botany, cultivation, chemistry and disease (1912)
- Wood products: distillates and extracts .. (1908)
- Chemical methods for utilizing wood, including destructive distillation, recovery of trupentine, rosin, and pulp, and the preparation of alcohols and oxalic acid (1907)
- A text-book of wood (1921)
- Seasoning of timber (1903)
- Cooperage; a treatise on modern shop practice and methods; (1910)
- Handy farm devices and how to make them (1912)
- Manual of instruction in hard soldering, with an appendix on the repair of bicycle frames; notes on alloys and a chapter on soft soldering (1898)
- Guidebook for the identification of woods used for ties and timbers (1917)
- Boy bird house architecture (c1920)
- Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow. A brief account of his life, services and trials; together with facts subsequent to his death, and incident to his great invention .. (1882)
- Wood carving : being a carefully graduated educational course for schools and adult classes (1896)
- A village class for drawing and wood carving : hints to teachers (1891)
- Wood pulp and its uses (1911)
- Hand-loom weaving, plain & ornamental (1920)
- Farm appliances; a practical manual (1887)
- Farm machinery laboratory manual (1918)
- The Operation Care And Repair Of Farm Machinery 19 (1932)
- Farm woodwork (1919)
- Farm mechanics; (1918)
- Farm implements, and the principles of their construction and use : an elementary and familiar treatise on mechanics, and on natural philosophy generally, as applied to the ordinary practice of agriculture ; with 200 engraved illustrations (1854)
- Farm and home mechanics : some things that every boy should know how to do and hence should learn to do in school (1911)
- Practical talks on farm engineering : A simple explanation of many everyday problems in farm engineering and farm mechanics written in a readable style for the practical farmer (1915)
- Farm engineering (1911)
- Farm conveniences (1884)
- Farm blacksmithing (1904)
- Farm craft lessons (1919)
Construction
- Earth Building Around The World (2010)
- Earth As Raw Material (2010)
- DurablityTest For Earth Wall Construction (UTS) (2010)
- How To Make Stabilised Earth Blocks (2010)
- Practical Action Tech Notes (2010)
- Low Cost High Value Housing (2004)
- Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay by Clough Williams-Ellis
- Concrete Construction by Halbert Powers Gillette and Charles Shattuck Hill
- Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools by Virginia McGaw
- Shelters, Shacks and Shanties by Daniel Carter Beard (log cabins and other simple shelters.)
- Cottage building in cob, pisé, chalk & clay; a renaissance (1920)
- Building in cob and pisé de terre; (1922)
- The book of woodcraft (1912)
- Knots, Splices and Rope Work by A. Hyatt Verrill
- Wiring houses for the electric light; together with special references to low voltage battery systems (1916, c1911)
- Public health. The Lomb prize essays (1886)
- Building by a builder; practical and economical considerations for the man about to build (1914)
- The house-owner's book; a manual for the helpful guidance of those who are interested in the building or conduct of homes, illustrated with cuts and diagrams (1922)
- How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
- The better homes manual (c1931)
- Chat with the ladies about house building (1905)
- The honest house, presenting examples of the usual problems which face the home-builder, together with an exposition of the simple architectural principles which underlie them: arranged especially in reference to small house design (1914)
- House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing (1882)
- Concrete in constructions (c1907-09)
- Agricultural drawing and the design of farm structures (1915)
- Farm Structures (1914)
- The hollow-tile house: (1913)
- The Practical brick and tile book (1880)
- Notes on reinforced brickwork (1922)
- Drying clay wares, by Ellis Lovejoy (c1916)
- Seger's collected works; being a reprint of the articles already published in "Brick" and chosen as being specially helpful to the clayworkers of the United States .. (1906)
- A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Portland Cement (1868)
- Bricks & artificial stones of non-plastic materials; their manufacture and uses (1915)
- Sand-lime and other concrete bricks (1921)
- Cement, concrete and bricks (1914)
- Building Stones And Clays (1912)
- The book of farm-buildings; their arrangement and construction (1861)
- Notes on building construction (1875)
- Sanitary Construction in Building (1906)
- Report on building stones.. (1886)
- The building estimator (1904)
- Building construction and superintendence (1906)
- Stones for building and decoration (1891)
- Steel: a manual for steel users (1896)
- Concrete and stucco houses; the use of plastic materials in the building of country and suburban houses in a manner to insure the qualities of fitness, durability, and beauty (1912)
- Practical hints on mill building (1880)
- The geology of building stones (1910)
- Details of building construction (1899)
- Operative masonry; or, A theoretical and practical treatise of building; containing a scientific account of stones, clays, bricks, mortars, cements, &c.; a description of their component parts, with the manner of preparing and using them. The fundamental rules in geometry, on masonry and stone-cutting, with their application to practice. Illustrated with forty copper-plate engravings (1832)
- Modern baths and bath houses (1908)
- Healthy foundations for houses (1885)
- Earth dams, a study (1904)
- Earthwork slips and subsidences upon public works: their causes, prevention, and reparation. Especially written to assist those engaged in the construction or maintenance of railways, docks, canals, roads, waterworks, river-banks, reclamation embankments, drainage works, etc (1890)
- Lightning Rod Conference : report of the delegates from the following societies, viz. : Meteorological Society, Royal Institute of British Architects, Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians, Physical Society, co-opted members (1882)
- Sewer construction (1908)
- Clay plant construction and operation (1919)
- A treatise on masonry construction (1902)
- Construction of a silo (1910)
- Concrete-steel construction (1914)
- The construction of silos (1905)
- Radon information system for new house construction (1995)
- Retaining Walls Their Design And Construction (1920)
- Dean's system of greenhouse heating by steam or hot water, with formulas for obtaining different temperatures .. (1901)
- Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits (1894)
- The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
- Treatise on mathematical and graphical roof framing (illustrated) for builders, carpenters and iron workers (c1900)
- Roof framing made easy; a practical and easily comprehended system, adapted to modern construction, for laying out and framing roofs (1903)
- How to frame a house; or, House and roof framing (c1914)
- Light and heavy timber framing made easy : balloon framing , mixed framing, heavy timber framing, houses, factories, bridges, barns, rinks, timber-roofs, and all other kinds of timber buildings ... (1909)
- Framing, sheathing, and insulation (1973)
- Stables, outbuildings and fences (1870)
- Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds (1907)
- Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants .. (1919)
- An economic study of farm layout .. (1920)
- Practical hints about barn building : together with suggestions as to the construction of swine and sheep pens, silos and other farm outbuildings (1893)
- Barn plans and outbuildings (1881)
- The modern homestead : its arrangement and construction (1902)
- Construction and care of earth roads (1901)
- Timber physics (1899)
- Making fences, walls and hedges (1914)
- Fences, gates, and bridges; a practical manual (1892)
- The fatigue of metals : with chapters on the fatigue of wood and of concrete (1927)
- Timber; a comprehensive study of wood in all its aspects, commercial and botanical, showing the different applications and uses of timber in various trades, etc (1902)
- Steel: a manual for steel users (1896)
- Village Improvements and Farm Villages
Agriculture
See also Project Gutenberg Agriculture bookshelf
- School gardening (n.d.)
- Gardening à la mode--vegetables (1895)
- Weeds; simple lessons for children (1913)
- Lesson plans; domestic animals (c1907)
- Nature teaching based upon the general principles of agriculture for the use of schools (1904)
- A normal course in nature-science and agriculture .. (1904)
- School gardens for California schools; a manual for teachers (1905)
- Nature studies on the farm : soils and plants (1907)
- The family, farm and gardens, and the domestic animals . In three parts. Illustrated (1859)
- Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
- Help for the hard times. Important to farmers (1910)
- The California vegetables in garden and field; a manual of practice, with and without irrigation, for semitropical countries (1910)
- The country home month by month; a guide to counry living (1915)
- United States business man's, farmer's & gardener's companion and complete domestic animal doctor (comprehensive) (1851)
- Farming for profit. A handbook for the American farmer, a practical work, devoted to agriculture and mechanics, fruit-growing and gardening, live-stock, business principles, home life, and showing how to make money, preserve health and secure happiness on the farm (1881)
- The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry : designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture : together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees (1819)
- Compendium of agriculture; or, The farmer's guide, in the most essential parts of husbandry and gardening; compiled from the best American and European publications, and the unwritten opinions of experienced cultivators .. (1824)
- Productive plant husbandry; a text-book for high schools, including plant propagation, plant breeding, soils, field crops gardening, fruit growing, forestry, insects, plant diseases and farm management (1917)
- Gleanings from the most celebrated books on husbandry, gardening, and rural affairs (1803)
- The gardener's and farmer's reason why; containing reasons for the principles of scientific cultivation applicable to gardening and agriculture (1860)
- How the farm pays : the experiences of forty years of successful farming and gardening (1884)
- Country life: a handbook of agriculture, horticulture, and landscape gardening (1866)
- Agronomy; a course in practical gardening for high schools ([c1913)]
- Practical farming and gardening; or, Money saving methods in farming, gardening, fruit growing, also horse, cattle, sheep, hog and poultry raising .. (1914)
- Kitchen gardening made easy (1879)
- Essay on modern gardening by Horace Walpole (1904)
- Pamphlets on vegetable gardening (1867)
- Educational school gardening and handwork (1913)
- Children's gardens for school and home : a manual of cooperative gardening (1904)
- School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers (1918)
- Studies in gardening (1916)
- The Beginners Book Of Gardening (1911)
- Firmingers Manual Of Gardening For India (1930) (need earlier edition to be public domain.)
- The family, farm and gardens, and the domestic animals . In three parts. Illustrated (1859)
- Young America does its bit, or, Gardening to win (1918)
- Home gardening vegetables and flowers; originally published under the title of The gardenette, or, City back yards gardening, the sandwich system (1915)
- New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical (1739)
- Applied economic botany based upon actual agricultural and gardening projects (1919)
- Glenny's catechism of gardening ... arranged for the use of schools .. (1849)
- Old-fashioned gardening; a history and a reconstruction (1913)
- The Gardenette: Or, City Back Yard Gardening ; the Sandwich System (1915)
- Gardening for health and recreation; a booklet of information about gardening for busy men and women (1910)
- The garden farmer: profitable market gardening (1882)
- Farm-gardening and seed-growing (1884)
- Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions.. (1771)
- Sea-coast gardens and gardening (1908)
- Amateur's guide to gardening in Cairo (1912)
- A-B-C of gardening (1915)
- Gardening and monthly calendar of operations (1861)
- Instructions in gardening for ladies (1840)
- A year's gardening (1912)
- The lighter branches of agriculture
- The gardens, poultry, and bees; embracing (1859)
- Jacques' new manual of the garden, farm and barn-yard, embracing practical horticulture, agriculture, and cattle, horse and sheep husbandry. With instructions to cultivate vegetables, fruit, flowers, all the field crops, execute the details of farm work, and breed and rear the various species of domestic animals (1870)
- Plant production (c1919)
- Birds and Flowers: Or, The Children's Guide to Gardening and Bird-keeping (1862)
- School and Home Gardening: A Text Book for Young People, with Plans ... (1918)
- Gardening under glass; a little book of helpful hints written particularly for those who would extend their gardening joys around the twelvemonth (1923)
- The joyous art of gardening; a book of first aid to the amateur (1917)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 1 (c1921) (plant breeding)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 2 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 3 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 4 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 5 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 6 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 7 (c1921)
- How plants are trained to work for man Vol 8 (c1921)
- The farmer's own book; or, Family receipts for the husbandman and housewife; being a compilation of the very best receipts on agriculture, gardening, and cookery, with rules for keeping farmers' accounts (1832)
- The farmer's and horseman's true guide : pointing out the perfections and imperfections of the horse, with cures for his diseases, and for neat cattle and sheep. Together with useful recipes in gardening ... From practical experience. Well-tried and approved by farmers, farriers, &c (1841)
- An epitome of Mr. Forsyth's treatise on the culture and management of fruit-trees ; also, notes on American gardening and fruits with designs for promoting the ripening of fruits, and securing them as family comforts ; and further, of economical principles in building farmers' habitations (1803)
- Rural life described and illustrated, in the management of horses, dogs, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, etc. etc. : their treatment in health and disease : with authentic information on all that relates to modern farming, gardening, shooting, angling, etc. etc. (1868)
- Farmer's handbook; a convenient reference book for all persons interested in general farming, fruit culture, truck farming, market gardening, livestock production, bee keeping, dairying, etc (1912)
- Market gardening and farm notes : experiences and observations in the garden and field, of interest to the amateur gardener, trucker and farmer (1892)
- Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use (1916)
- The new gardening: a guide to the most recent developments in the culture of fruits, flowers and vegetables (1913)
- A plain and easy introduction to the knowledge and practice of gardening, with hints on fish-ponds (1805)
- French market-gardening : including practical details of "intensive cultivation" for English growers (1909)
- Handbook of gardening for New Zealand, with chapters on poultry and bee-keeping (1888?)
- Gardening for young and old. The cultivation of garden vegetables in the farm garden (1882)
- Gardening; an elementary school text treating of the science and art of vegetable growing (1922)
- Science and Practice of Gardening, in which are Explained and Illustrated ... (1862)
- A manual of veterinary hygiene (1911)
- A manual on poultry (1883)
- Rural economy in its relations with chemistry, physics, and meteorology : or, chemistry applied to agriculture (1854)
- Some insects injurious to vegetable crops
- The Origin and Nature of Soils (1892)
- Domesticated Animals: Their Relation to Man and to His Advancement in ... (1895)
- The farmer's guide to scientific and practical agriculture. Detailing the labors of the farmer, in all their variety, and adapting them to the seasons of the year as they successively occur (1850)
- Stephens' Book of the farm; dealing exhaustively with every branch of agriculture (1908)
- Mushroom culture : its extension and improvement (1873)
- Mushroom culture and pure culture spawn (1912)
- Mushrooms : how to grow them : a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure (1891)
- The dog in health and in disease: including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education and general management in health, and his treatment in disease (1895)
- Notes on disease of cattle, cause, symptoms and treatment (1916)
- Home treatment for the disease of domesticated animals .. (1895)
- Our domestic animals in health and disease (1864)
- How to build poultry houses (1903)
- Low cost poultry houses (1899)
- Poultry houses.. (1919)
- The book of alfalfa; history, cultivation and merits. Its uses as a forage and fertilizer (1907)
- The flax industry; its importance and progress. Also its cultivation and management and instructions in the various Belgian methods of growing and preparing it for market. With extracts from the annual report of the Royal Irish Flax Society, and a word on Chevalier Claussen's invention of cottonizing flax (1852)
- Agriculture in Japan : a paper read by Professor Koide before the Agricultural Section of the Royal Society, 11th June, 1918 (1918)
- Soybeans for silage and for hay (1930)
- Sunflower silage vs. corn silage for milk production (1927)
- Spoiled silage, sour silage, moldy silage, rotten silage, frozen silage; its cause and effects (1915)
- Ensilage; being some notes on the construction and management of the different kinds of silos, together with observations of the value of silage for farm stock (1904)
- Nitrogen and other losses during the ensiling of corn (1921)
- Soiling crops and the silo; how to cultivate and harvest the crops; how to build and fill the silo; and how to use silage (1900)
- Silos, ensilage and silage. A practical treatise on the ensilage of fodder corn (1918)
- Silos for preserving British fodder crops stored in a green state. Notes on the ensilage of grasses, clovers, vetches, etc (1883)
- A book on silage (1896)
- Soiling, ensilage, and stable construction; (1911)
- Book of the goat: containing practical directions for the management of the milch goat in health and disease
- Fertility of soils as affected by manures (1908)
- Soil fertility laboratory manual (c1910)
- The essentials of soil fertility (1913)
- The location, construction and operation of hog houses (1906)
- Brood sows and their litters; a practical book on how to handle the brood sow and her litter. What to feed, when to feed and how to feed. Also how to care for the litter (1913)
- The pig: a treatise on the breeds, management, feeding, and medical treatment, of swine; with directions for salting pork, and curing bacon and hams (1852)
- Hogology (1918)
- Biggle swine book : much old and more new hog knowledge, arranged in alternate streaks of fat and lean (1899)
- Swine in America; a text book for the breeder, feeder & student (1912)
- Swine husbandry. A practical manual for the breeding, rearing and management of swine, with suggestions as to the prevention and treatment of their diseases (1897)
- Forty years' experience of a practical hog man; a practical book for the pure bred swine breeder and farmer. Written from actual experience of forty years in successfully handling a large herd of pure bred hogs (1914)
- Every man his own farrier, a treatise on horses and cattle; with remedies for every disease (1875)
- Profitable poultry : how to manage fowls, turkeys, ducks & geese in health and disease (1900)
- Diseases of swine with special reference to the preventive measures of disease (1906)
- Diseases of poultry; the cause, symptoms and care of each disease, and simple, effective remedies (1902)
- The green-house as a winter garden, a manual for the amateur (1869)
- The two P's or the pleasure and profit of cold frames and hot beds (1920)
- Irrigation development. History, customs, laws, and administrative systems relating to irrigation, water-courses, and waters in France, Italy, and Spain. The introductory part of the Report of the state engineer of California, on irrigation and the irrigation question (1886)
- The storage of water for irrigation purposes (1912)
- Operation and maintenance of irrigation systems (1917)
- Irrigation for the farm (1889)
- Rice irrigation in Texas.. (1902)
- Pumping water for irrigation (1896)
- Irrigation guide. A concise treatise on irrigation (1895)
- Punjab Irrigation (1925)
- A Manual of Gardening for Bengal and Upper India (1874)
- Field and garden crops of the North-Western provinces and Oudh, by J. F. Duthie and J. B. Fuller (1882)
- Swine houses and equipment : types and breeds of swine ; swine feeding and judging ; swine breeding ; types and breeds of sheep ; sheep judging and breeding ; sheep management ; horse barns and paddocks ; types, breeds, and market classes of horses ; horse judging ; horse management ; ponies, asses, and mules (1912)
- Irrigation by artesian wells: report of exploratory survey (1888)
- Essays on wheat, including the discovery and introduction of marquis wheat, the early history of wheat-growing in Manitoba, wheat in western Canada, the origin of red bobs and kitchener, and the wild wheat of Palestine (1919)
- The American wheat culturist. A practical treatise on the culture of wheat (1868)
- The book of wheat : an economic history and practical manual of the wheat industry (1908)
- Wheat; a practical discussion of the raising, marketing, handling and use of the wheat crop (1914)
- Improving the quality of wheat .. (1905)
- The first Belgian hare course of instruction. Twenty lessons. Complete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ... developing a business, etc. ... with a true history of the Belgian hare .. (1901)
- The American farm book : or, Compend of American agriculture ; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market ;illustrated by more than 100 engravings (1860)
- Wet rice cultivation in Indonesia - A comparative research
- The farmer's dog (1922)
- Complete farmer's guide (1915)
- An American fruit-farm; (1915)
- The nutrition of farm animals (1917)
- Farm foods : or, the rational feeding of farm animals (1895)
- The normal day's work of farm implements, workmen, and crews in western New York (1916)
- The modern farm hen (1922)
- Feeding farm animals (1907)
- Breeding farm animals (1911)
- Farm manures (1913)
- Farm management (1907)
- Farm experiments (1878)
Forestry
- The farm woodlot, a handbook of forestry for the farmer and the student in agriculture (1914)
- Wood as a crop in Illinois (1926)
- The farm and the woodlot (1919)
- Woodlot forestry (1905)
- Remarks on the management, or rather, the mismanagement of woods, plantations and hedge-row timber (1842)
- Preservation of forests as a measure of public safety; (1909)
- Webster's Practical forestry : a popular handbook on the rearing and growth of trees for profit or ornament (1917)
- Fruit growing for profit: comprising a complete history of apple culture, from the time the seeds are planted until the proceeds are pocketed, with chapters on the plum, pear, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, currant and gooseberry (1891)
- Practical arboriculture; how forests influence climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity, a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers (1906)
- Arboriculture; or, A practical treatise on raising and managing forest trees, and on the profitable extension of the woods and forests of Great Britain (1868)
Food
- Procedures for home freezing of vegetables, fruits, and prepared foods : classified notes on review of literature (1950)
- Food guide for war service at home (1918)
- Home canning and drying of vegetables and fruits .. (1918)
- Preservation of food; canning, preserving, drying an preserving, drying and preserving of eggs (1917)
- Vegetable gardening and canning; a manual for garden clubs (1917)
- War gardening and home storage of vegetables for the southern states (1919)
- Fifteen lessons on food conservation (1917)
- Food and freedom; a household book (c1918)
- Food and the war; a textbook for college classes (1918)
- The conservation of food energy (1918)
- Milk and its hygienic relations (1916)
- Suggestive outline of work on food conservation for home economics teachers (1918)
- Investigations in the manufacture and storage of butter (1906)
- Investigations in the manufacture and storage of butter. II.--Preventing molds in butter tubs (1906)
- Butter and cheese (1920)
- Microbes, ferments and moulds (1886)
- Practical studies in fermentation; being contributions to the life history of micro-organisms (1896)
- Laboratory studies for brewing students, a systematic course of practical work in the scientific principles underlying the processes of malting and brewing (1904)
- The Cold curing of cheese (1903)
- Cheese making; a book for practical cheesemakers, factory patrons, agricultural colleges and dairy schools (1918)
- Cheese; a short treatise on the manufacture of various kinds of domestic and foreign cheese, Cheddar, Dutch, Swiss, Italian, French, Limburger, Neufchatel, cream, cottage cheese, etc. (1918)
- Disease in milk; the remedy, pasteurization (1913)
- Manual for home storage, pickling, fermentation and salting vegetables, with directions for making potato starch, fruit pastes, butters, etc (1917)
- Dairy technology; a treatise on the city milk supply, milk as a food, ice cream making, by-products of the creamery and cheesery, fermented milks, condensed and evaporated milks, milk powder, renovated butter, and oleomargarine (1913)
- Fermented alcohol beverages, malt liquors, wine and cider
- Neufchâtel and cream cheese : farm manufacture and use (1918)
- Fancy cheese in America, from the milk of cows, sheep and goats (1910)
- How to make the best butter (1886)
- Investigations in the manufacture and storage of butter (1906)
- Wheat and flour primer (1915)
- Unpolished rice, the staple food of the Orient; (1905)
- The greatest of grains. Rice (1892)
- Home and farm food preservation (1918)
Green living
- The modern household. (1912)
- Green Gardening: Environmentally Friendly Alternatives to Chemicals (2003)
- What I know; or, Hints on the daily duties of a housekeeper. Comprising nearly five hundred receipts, for cooking, preserving, pickling, washing, ironing, gardening, plain and fancy needle-work, putting up of winter stores, and numerous other receipts useful and needful in every well-regulated household (1856)
- Liberty and a living; the record of an attempt to secure bread and butter, sunshine and content, by gardening, fishing, and hunting (1904)
- How to take care of your home (1947)
- Three short courses in home making (1917)
- Increasing home efficiency (1912)
- The new housekeeping: efficiency studies in home management (1918)
- Hints for housekeepers : compiled and edited under the auspices of the Women's Auxiliary of the Hospital of the Good Shepherd (1904)
- The home and its management; a handbook in homemaking, with three hundred inexpensive cooking receipts (1917)
- Housewifery; a manual and text book of practical housekeeping (1921)
- Duties in the home and the family (1904)
- The business of home management (The principles of domestic engineering) (1918)
- How to do home work right (1915)
- Home problems from a new standpoint (1908)
- Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home (1919)
- Manual of home-making education (1922)
- The home-keeping book; (1918)
- An experiment in home education (1914)
- Home life in colonial days (1910)
- The Economics of the Household: Six Lectures Given at the London School of ... (1907) On Waste.
- The home economy handbook (1917)
- The home-keeping book; (1918)
- The formula. A book for laundrymen, containing formulas for various laundry operations, including washing, bleaching, bluing, etc (1889)
- The laundry manual; (1898)
- Dress, blouse, and costume cloths, design and fabric manufacture (1921)
- Industrial drawing for girls; design principles applied to dress (1912)
- Barber instructor and toilet manual (1900)
- The Disposal of Household Wastes ... (1890)
- The Household Book of Practical Receipts: In the Arts, Manfactures and Trades, Including ... (1871)
- Applied Motion Study: A Collection of Papers on the Efficient Method to ... (1917)
- Motion study : a method for increasing the efficiency of the workman (1911)
Energy
- Wiring houses for the electric light; together with special references to low voltage battery systems (1916, c1911)
- How to reduce energy costs in your building (1983)
- Energy notes : mobile homeowners's guide to saving money & energy (1994)
- How to reduce energy costs in your building (1983)
- Electricity for the Farm and Home (1913)
- The chemistry of petroleum and its substitutes; a practical handbook (1915)
Health
- Health and education (1887)
- Home Care of the Sick (1907)
- A Textbook of Simple Nursing Procedure for Use in High Schools: Together with Instructions for ... (1921)
- A Practical Dietary Computer (1917)
- Health for the family in wartime (1918)
- Personal hygiene, designed for undergraduates (1906)
- The voyage of growing up (c1928)
- The cost of cleanness (1911)
- The care of the body (1912)
- The efficient life (1913)
- Outlines of rural hygiene for physicians, students, and sanitarians (1897)
- A treatise on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. Designed for colleges, academies, and families (1858)
- The principles of hygiene; a practical manual for students, physicians, and health-officers (1918)
- Personal hygiene applied (1922)
- Hygiene as nature study; a series of inductive-deductive lessons in hygiene for grades V, VI, VII and VIII of the elementary schools (1917)
- How to live : rules for healthful living based on modern science : authorized by and prepared in collaboration with the Hygiene Reference Board of the Life Extension Institute, Inc. (1915)
- The possibility of living 200 years (1896)
- The community health problem (1920)
- Oral lesson book in hygiene for primary teachers (1901)
- Preventable diseases (1909)
- Practical nursing; an elementary condensed textbook for trained attendants and for use in practical home nursing (1919)
- Handbook of health in war and peace; a manual of personal preparedness (1917)
- Safety; methods for preventing occupational and other accidents and disease (1913)
- Clinical diagnosis, the bacteriological, chemical, and microscopical evidences of disease; (1905)
Knowledge
- Biological atlas: a guide to the practical study of plants and animals (1881)
- Three kingdoms. A handbook of the Agassiz Association (1888)
- The microscope and its revelations (1901)
- A course of practical work in the chemistry of the garden, for teachers and students of horticulture gardening and rural science (1914)
- The home school (c1913)
- Home and school training (1884)
- The education of the child from one to three, prepared by the literary staff of the American institute of child life (1914)
- Household arts for home and school (1920)
- Suggestive courses of study in manual arts, mechanical drawing and household economics for Texas high schools (1911)
- Fourteen weeks in popular geology (c1877)
- Fourteen weeks in physics (1879)
- Answers to the Practical Questions and Problems Contained in the Fourteen Weeks' Courses: In ... (1870)
- Fourteen weeks in botany : being an illustrated flora (c1879)
- Fourteen weeks in zoology (1872)
- Fourteen weeks in chemistry (1874)
- Fourteen weeks in natural philosophy / by J. Dorman Steele (1869)
- Commercial organic analysis. A treatise on the properties, proximate analytical examination, and modes of assaying the various organic chemicals and products employed in the arts, manufactures, medicine, etc., with concise methods for the detection and determination of their impurities, adulterations, and products of decomposition (1898)
Transport
- A treatise on the science of ship-building (1817)
- Horses : their points and management in health and disease (1906)
- The horse, in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease (1871)
- The horse: how to feed him, avoid disease, and save money (1868)
- Stable management and the prevention of disease among horses in India (1882)