The Farm Journal
March 1929, fifty-third year: “All Eyes Turn to the Nation’s Capital”, which that month meant an inauguration — and a hundred pages about the weather regardless.
⬇ FREE PDF · 48.5 MB — at archive.org ↗Farm & Homestead
Crops, poultry, weather and the long arithmetic of feeding people.
Successful Farming
September 1929, five cents: a child walking home down a country lane, and a hundred pages on getting a harvest in — a few weeks before Wall Street fell over.
⬇ FREE PDF · 56.6 MB — at archive.org ↗Successful Farming
Five cents an issue, more than a million copies, and an April 1929 cover of a girl, a pony and a puppy standing under the blossom. Des Moines, Iowa knew exactly who it was talking to.
⬇ FREE PDF · 61.9 MB — at archive.org ↗The Farm Journal
A cow looking straight at you, June 1929, a million and a half copies that month — and, beginning in this issue, a new mystery story by Edgar Wallace. Farm papers contained multitudes.
⬇ FREE PDF · 23.7 MB — at archive.org ↗The Farm Journal
Five cents, March 1920, “All Topics in Season”: $10,500 in crop prizes, more poultry secrets, collective bargaining for farmers, and Ross saying “Corn, Clover and Cash”. Nobody here wasted a word.
⬇ FREE PDF · 108.0 MB — at archive.org ↗Successful Farming
Five cents a copy and more than 800,000 of them, October 1919 — and the cover is a man opening a churn while three children lean right in to see. The entire magazine is that: show somebody how.
⬇ FREE PDF · 85.7 MB — at archive.org ↗The Farm Journal
“Fifty Years Young”, January 1927 — Your New Furniture, The Three-Story Garden, “The Corn-Borer Is Loose!” and Six Essentials of the Home. A whole practical year, opened on the kitchen table.
⬇ FREE PDF · 45.8 MB📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Farm & Homestead is a space we have swept and labelled and not filled. Something will lean up against it soon; in the meantime there are 6 other categories on the 🔧 Useful shelf. ☕
turning the page…
reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
