Our Land of Farms (Little Wonder Book No. 502)

Charles E. Merrill Co., Inc. (affiliated with American Education Press), Published 1949. Wraps, 32 pp.; 21 cm; revised printing of the 1946 first; staple bound; illustrated with black-and-white documentary photographs and a map throughout. In good condition. Yellow pictorial paper covers with photographic scenes on both, the front showing a farmer in overalls and broad-brim hat standing in a hayfield with a scythe and titled "OUR LAND of FARMS" above, the back showing a horse-drawn combine working a wheat field below distant mountains. Mild shelf wear and light bumping to corners and edges, with light surface soiling overall and a small orange spot at the upper edge of the back cover. Staple binding tight and square. Interior pages lightly toned but otherwise unmarked, with light foxing along the inner edge of the back cover.Number 502 in the Little Wonder Books series, originally a set of ninety thirty-two-page booklets co-published by Charles E. Merrill Co. and American Education Press in the mid- to late 1940s. The series was designed for readers aged six to twelve, with each booklet treating one unit of social-studies or science material on the child's level, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs supplied by federal agencies and news services, and originally priced low for classroom and home use. The 500-series titles, distinguished by their bright yellow covers, address American geography, civics, industry, and natural resources. "Our Land of Farms" surveys American agriculture region by region (the wheat country of Kansas, the corn belt, western cattle ranching, dairying, irrigated desert farming, truck gardens, and the cotton South) and closes with a forward-looking chapter on hybrid seed, mechanization, and the changing relationship between farm and city. Photographs draw on the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, J. C. Allen and Son, International Harvester, the New Mexico State Tourist Bureau, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, among others.Contents: America's Full Dinner Pail; Wheat Is the Heart of Kansas; Corn on Four Feet; Home on the Range; "So, Boss, So, Boss"; Farms in the Desert; Vegetable Gardens; Land of Cotton; Farms of the Future. Title: Our Land of Farms (Little Wonder Book No. 502) Author Name: Dorothy Hall Location Published: Columbus, Ohio, Charles E. Merrill Co., Inc.: 1949 Binding: Wraps Book Condition: Good Size: 21 cm Type: Wraps Categories: Children's Books Seller ID: 20260507020 Keywords: american agriculture, american education press, juvenile non-fiction, little wonder books, yellow series