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Special Edition Toy Farmer
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5.00
To coincide with the 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Vintage 4WD Series of National Farm Toy Show® Tractors, a first-ever special edition of the Toy Farmer magazine is published.
The core content is 10 articles authored for each of the 10 tractors in the Vintage 4WD Series.
Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers, Vol. 1
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54.95
By Roger V. Amato & Donald J. Heimburger
From Benjamin Holt's early 1900 crawlers to C.L. Best's gasoline-powered models, follow along as this volume highlights Allis-Chalmers and Case through the 1970s and Caterpillar of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. In hundreds of colorful photographs and informative text, learn about development of the mighty crawlers and dozers that helped shape our nation through the years. This hard cover book contains 188 pages. |
Ultimate Tractor Power, Vol. 2
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37.00
Volume 2 takes a comprehensive look at 4WD articulated tractors of the world.
This book was written by Peter D. Simpson and is a hard-covered, 192-page full-colored book.
Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers, Vol. 2
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39.95
By Roger V. Amato & Donald J. Heimburger
This second volume of Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers features Caterpillar models from 1950 through 1979, Cletrac, Deere, Eimco, Euclid, Terex and International Harvester, as well as other smaller manufacturers, wheel dozers, blade makers, crawler attachments, circus and railroad crawlers. From mini dozers to super dozers–and everything in between–these two volumes together cover the entire United States landscape of crawlers and dozers. This soft cover book contains 256 pages and approximately 11" x 10". |
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Eat Rutabagas
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12.95
by Jerry Apps
Jerry's dad knows that no one can resist the taste of breaking ground rutabagas. Follow Jerry and his dad as they plant, harvest and sell the cream of the rutabaga crop. This hard-cover book is illustrated in full-color. Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! |
Blue Shadows Farm - A Novel
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26.95
hard cover
Fans of Jerry Apps will delight in his latest novel, Blue Shadows Farm, which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wisconsin farm. Silas Starkweather, A Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 aces in Ames County, where he is known as the mysterious farmer forever digging holes. After yhears of hardship and toil, however, Silas develops a commitment to farming his land and respect for his new community. Through the story of the Starkweather family's changing fortunes, and each generation's very different relationship with the farm and the land, Blue Shadows Farm is in some ways the narrative of all farmers and the increasingly difficult challenges they face as committed stewards of the land. Copyright 2009, is a hard cover, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" and contains 380 pages. Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! |
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In a Pickle - A Family Farm Story
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24.95
by Jerry Apps
The year is 1955. Andy Meyer, a young farmer, manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is meandering, and the feeling is distinctly Midwestern. Workers sort, weigh, and dump cucumbers into huge vats where the pickles cure, providing a livelihood to local farmers. But the H.H. Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in town, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlow way or lose their biggest customer-and, possible, their land. Andy, himself the owner of a half-acre pickle patch, works part-time for the Harlow Company, a conflict that places him between the family farm and the big corporation. As he sees how Harolow begins to change the rural community and the lives of its people, Andy must make personal, ethical, and life-changing decisions. Mixing humor with rural history, In a Pickle is a lament for a way of farm life lost to corporate farming, but it is also a hopeful story about the strength tradition still has to inform and inspire daily life. This hard-cover book contains 248 pages. Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! |
Cranberry Red by Jerry Apps
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26.95
The fourth novel in Jerry Apps's Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century.
As the novel opens, Ben Wesley has lost hi job as agricultural agent for Ames County. He is soon hired as a research application specialist for Osborne University, a for-profit institution that has developed "Cranberry Red," a new chemical that promises not only to improve cranberry crop yields but also to endow the fruits with the power to prevent heart disease, reduce brain damage from strokes, and ward off Alzheimer's disease. Ben must promote the new product to cranberry growers in Ames County and beyond, but he worries whether the promised results are credible. Was Cranberry Red rushed to market? When the chemical does all that the university claims it will do, Ben is relieved...until disturbing side effects emerge. Can he criticize Cranberry Red and safeguard farmers and consumers without losing his job, or will Ben's honesty get him fired while putting his community at risk? Cranberry Red is a hard cover book containing 312 pages. Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card! |
Living a Country Year, Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days
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17.95
by Jerry Apps
In his signature warm-hearted style, Jerry Apps traces the wisdom gained in living a country year, chronicling each month with a tale about growing up on a Midwestern dairy farm in the 1940s.
We skate with him on a frozen pond on a moonlit night. We watch him drive the hired man's Model T touring car at the age of ten, recover from polio by driving a tractor during disking season, and learn to ride bareback on a pony named Ginger. Whether shooting off firecrackers on the Fourth of July, suffering through "potato vacation," or overcoming stage fright at the one-room school-house's Christmas program, Apps is a delightful companion.
Wearing his hard-earned wisdom lightly, Apps accompanies each month's tale with farm country aphorisms and the occasional recipe. By turns witty and profound, Living a Country Year reaffirms our rural heritage.
This hard cover book contains 223 pages.
Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card!
In his signature warm-hearted style, Jerry Apps traces the wisdom gained in living a country year, chronicling each month with a tale about growing up on a Midwestern dairy farm in the 1940s.
We skate with him on a frozen pond on a moonlit night. We watch him drive the hired man's Model T touring car at the age of ten, recover from polio by driving a tractor during disking season, and learn to ride bareback on a pony named Ginger. Whether shooting off firecrackers on the Fourth of July, suffering through "potato vacation," or overcoming stage fright at the one-room school-house's Christmas program, Apps is a delightful companion.
Wearing his hard-earned wisdom lightly, Apps accompanies each month's tale with farm country aphorisms and the occasional recipe. By turns witty and profound, Living a Country Year reaffirms our rural heritage.
This hard cover book contains 223 pages.
Limited Quantities! Purchase now or call 1-800-533-8293 or (701) 883-5206 w/your credit card!
