Garden State: The Story of Agriculture in New Jersey (signed by the author)
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED BY CUNNINGHAN ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Hardcover, 288 pp. with bibliography, index. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Even soiling to the covers and spine. Interior clean. No jacket. Possibly the scarcest of New Jersey historian John T. Cunningham's book about the, a history of agriculture in the Garden State. The author, along with presenting general historical information, divides the book into chapters on the various agricultural products for which the state was known in the mid-1950s (and in many cases still is today): eggs and poultry, "green growers" of corn, vegetables, etc, "The Love Apple" (tomatoes), dairy,livestock (beef cattle, lambs, pigs), potatoes, peaches, cranberries, lumber, etc. Cunningham provides as well the numbers of farmers and acres for each, the gross amounts sold both in product and dollars. There are chapters on agricultural research in the state, the educational department, "Future Farmers" Very Good. Item #E35488
Price: $35.00