[PDF] The California Culturist Vol 2 eBook

Author : W. Wadsworth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781334096167

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Excerpt from The California Culturist, Vol. 2: A Journal of Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanism and Mining; June, 1859, to May, 1860 The Metal Crop of the World 131 Tustin's self-regulating Wind Wheel 138 The Hesperian 143 Tree Planting 212 Two Heaps of Cow Manure 222 The Grain Harvest 227 turkey-breeding 270 The Rains 284 Trees; where to get 285 Tomato Wine 309 Tule Lands. 324, 364 The True Principle of California Farming. 330 Timber, Best Time of Cutting 374 Trees Overshadowing Gardens 412 Terracing 41 7 The Victoria Bridge 458 The Lime Light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Briscoe
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0874177154

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Winner, TopShelf Magazine Book Awards Historical Non-fiction Finalist, Northern California Book Awards General Non-Fiction Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world. For the first time, Briscoe tells the complete and dramatic story of the ascendancy of California wine in vivid detail. He also profiles the larger story of California itself by looking at it from an entirely innovative perspective, the state seen through its singular wine history. With dramatic flair and verve, Briscoe not only recounts the history of wine and winemaking in California, he encompasses a multidimensional approach that takes into account an array of social, political, cultural, legal, and winemaking sources. Elements of this history have plot lines that seem scripted by a Sophocles, or Shakespeare. It is a fusion of wine, personal histories, cultural, and socioeconomic aspects. Crush is the story of how wine from California finally gained its global due. Briscoe recounts wine’s often fickle affair with California, now several centuries old, from the first harvest and vintage, through the four overwhelming catastrophes, to its amazing triumph in Paris.

Author : California Academy of Sciences
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Science
ISBN :

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During the interval between the lst and 2d series two pamphlets of Proceedings were published, 1880-1881, relating to the Jeanette Arctic expedition; also the 2 vols. (8 nos.) of the Bulletin, 1884/1886-1886/1887.

Author : California Academy of Sciences
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Science
ISBN :

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"Catalogue of the Library to January 1, 1889," 91 p., appended to 2d ser., v. 1; "Additions" in 2d ser., v. 2-3.

Author : Emelyn Rude
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1681771985

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From the domestication of the bird nearly ten thousand years ago to its current status as our go-to meat, the history of this seemingly commonplace bird is anything but ordinary. How did chicken achieve the culinary ubiquity it enjoys today? It’s hard to imagine, but there was a point in history, not terribly long ago, that individual people each consumed less than ten pounds of chicken per year. Today, those numbers are strikingly different: we consumer nearly twenty-five times as much chicken as our great-grandparents did. Collectively, Americans devour 73.1 million pounds of chicken in a day, close to 8.6 billion birds per year. How did chicken rise from near-invisibility to being in seemingly "every pot," as per Herbert Hoover's famous promise? Emelyn Rude explores this fascinating phenomenon in Tastes Like Chicken. With meticulous research, Rude details the ascendancy of chicken from its humble origins to its centrality on grocery store shelves and in restaurants and kitchens. Along the way, she reveals startling key points in its history, such as the moment it was first stuffed and roasted by the Romans, how the ancients’ obsession with cockfighting helped the animal reach Western Europe, and how slavery contributed to the ubiquity of fried chicken today. In the spirit of Mark Kurlansky’s Cod and Bee Wilson's Consider the Fork, Tastes Like Chicken is a fascinating, clever, and surprising discourse on one of America’s favorite foods.