Miller's Canadian Farmer's Almanac For the Year of Our Lord 1871

INVENTORY #4339

Miller's Canadian Farmer's Almanac For the Year of Our Lord 1871

MILLER, Robert

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Contains monthly calendars with room for memoranda, info on Royal Family, Dominion and Provincial governments, postage rates, courts of justice, banks in Canada, poultry, agricultural notes, whitewash ("one of the most valuable things in the world when properly applied"), weather wisdom ("spiders and snails are the most remarkable of all the weather prophets"). Owner's notations provide an interesting and sometimes poignant view of events on a Victorian-era farm: "Joshephene Buryed," "Old goose 14 eggs," "Butcherd three Piggs," "made cider," etc.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Robert Miller
  • Edition: n/a
  • Date Published: 1871
  • Place Published: Montreal
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Fair
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    48 p. 19 cm. Edition of Thirty-Five Thousand. Paper covers missing. Pages darkened, some speckles and damp stains, rough edges. Pen and ink notations inside.

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