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• Abandoned farms -- Fiction

• Abandoned farmsteads
• Deserted farms
• Deserted farmsteads
• Farms, Abandoned

• Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1919), by Albert Bigelow Paine, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Canadian, Photoplay Title of The Land of Promise: A Novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play (with pictures from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by D. Torbett, contrib. by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Pictures of Edgewood, in a Series of Photographs, by Rockwood, and Illustrative Text by the Author of "My Farm of Edgewood" (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1869), by Donald Grant Mitchell, illust. by George Gardner Rockwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of Farm Economics (partial serial archives)

• The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Edward L. Chase (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Dame Care, by Hermann Sudermann, trans. by Bertha Overbeck (Gutenberg text)

• The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Cow Puncher (Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1918), by Robert J. C. Stead, illust. by Arthur Heming (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Old Gray Homestead, by Frances Parkinson Keyes (Gutenberg text)

• The Rover Boys on the Farm: or, Last Days at Putnam Hall (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1908), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Orchard Secret (Arden Blake Mystery Series #1; New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co, c1934), by Cleo F. Garis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch: or, The Cowboys' Double Round-Up (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1922), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch: or, Little Folks on Ponyback (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1918), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Julia Greene (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rover Boys on the Plains: or, The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., c1913), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Frank J. Murch (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The S. W. F. Club (Cleveland: G. W. Jacobs and Co., 1912), by Caroline Emilia Jacobs (Gutenberg text)

• Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838 - January 15, 1839, by John Blackford, ed. by Fletcher M. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c1999), by Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Labor Management in Agriculture (second edition, 2003), by Gregory Encina Billikopf (PDF files with commentary at Berkeley)

• The Abandoned Farmers: His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm, by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text)

• Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965-83 (c2007), by Tim Hodgdon (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Garden Book (manuscript and transcription; written 1766-1824), by Thomas Jefferson (HTML and page images with commentary at masshist.org)
• Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by W. A. Lambeth and Warren H. Manning
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Virginia
• The Bloom of Monticello (Richmond, VA: Whittet and Shepperson, 1926), by Elizabeth Hatcher Sadler
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mount Vernon: A Letter to the Children of America (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (HTML with commentary at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• Visitors' Guide to Mount Vernon (third edition; Washington, DC: Gibson Bros., c1876), by Elizabeth Bryant Johnston (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Mount Vernon: A Letter to the Children of America (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (HTML with commentary at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected With its History: Biographical, Genealogical and Historical (Oak Grove, VA: F. W. Alexander, 1912), by Frederick Warren Alexander
  • illustrated HTML at Lee Family Digital Archive
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Deep Roots (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Leicester, UK: Tudor Rose, c2014), ed. by Sean Nicklin, Ben Cornwell, and Jacqui Griffiths (HTML and PDF in the UK)

• Records for Solving Farm Problems (University of Arkansas Agricultural Extension Service circular #492; ca. 160), by Charles W. Williams and E. P. Callahan (PDF at uark.edu)

• Farm Practices: Plowing, Harrowing, Planting, Cultivating (second edition, 1947), by Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company Tractor Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manual of Law and Forms: A Practical Hand-Book of the Law; Business Forms, for the Use of Industrial Classes (Detroit: Darling Bros. and Co., 1887), by Henry A. Haigh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Five Acres: A Practical Guide to the Selection and Management of the Small Farm (second printing of first edition; New York: Greenberg, c1935), by M. G. Kains (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records for Solving Farm Problems (University of Arkansas Agricultural Extension Service circular #492; ca. 160), by Charles W. Williams and E. P. Callahan (PDF at uark.edu)
• Ten Acres Enough: A Practical Experience, Showing How a Very Small Farm May be Made to Keep a Very Large Family, With Extensive and Profitable Experience in the Cultivation of the Smaller Fruits (eighth edition; New York: J. Miller, 1866), by Edmund Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A Continent in Crisis, by Andrew Ker (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Cato's Farm Management; Eclogues from the De Re Rustica of M. Porcius Cato, Done Into English, With Notes of Other Excursions In the Pleasant Paths of Agronomic Literature (Privately printed, 1910), by Marcus Porcius Cato, ed. by Fairfax Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro Done into English, With Notes of Modern Instances (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, ed. by Fairfax Harrison
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Collectivization and its Impact on the Ukrainian Population and on Soviet Agricultural Productivity: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session, November 15, 1983 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Impacts of Technology on U.S. Cropland and Rangeland Productivity (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Agriculture Information Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Impacts of Technology on U.S. Cropland and Rangeland Productivity (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide (2010), ed. by Julian M. Alston, Bruce A. Babcock, and Philip G. Pardey (PDF with commentary at Iowa State)

• Changes in Agricultural Production and Technology in Colombia (Foreign Agricultural Economic Report #52; Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture in cooperation with Ministry of Agriculture and the Central Planning Agency of Colombia, 1969), by L. Jay Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sulfuric Acid Rain Effects on Crop Yield and Foliar Injury (Corvallis, OR: Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ca. 1980), by Jeffrey J. Lee, Grady E. Neely, and Shelton C. Perrigan
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Law of Diminishing Returns (Yonkers-on-Hudson and Chicago: World Book Co., 1924), by W. J. Spillman and Emil Lang
  • page images at Cornell
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Agricultural Policy, Technology Adoption, and Farm Structure (USDA Staff Report AGES880810; 1988), by Lloyd D. Teigen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ten Acres Enough: A Practical Experience, Showing How a Very Small Farm May be Made to Keep a Very Large Family, With Extensive and Profitable Experience in the Cultivation of the Smaller Fruits (eighth edition; New York: J. Miller, 1866), by Edmund Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions, by Laura S. Meitzner and Martin L. Price (HTML at archive.org)

• Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions, by Laura S. Meitzner and Martin L. Price (HTML at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.