Stover Mfg (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 12 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original multicolored pictorial paper brochure with staple binding. Original vertical fold line at center. Faint green and pink colors and black-and-white illustration of two cows eating from a feeding trough on front panel. No date, circa 1920s. 4" x 9" folded. Twenty pages, complete. Small black-and-white illustrations, complete. Brochure is very clean and intact except for splitting along spine, tipped-in stamp or sticker ("Eat Pinto Beans") on spine, occasional faint stains, slight fading, moderate age toning, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. Promotional brochure and trade catalogue advertising various machinery and equipment for grinding feed for livestock as manufactured by the Stover Manufacturing & Engine Company. Stover Mfg. & Eng. Co. was founded by American industrialist Daniel Carroll Stover (1839-1908), also known as D. C. Stover, in 1862. It was incorporated in 1882. Stover Mfg. & Eng. Co. specialized in manufacturing a variety of farming machines and equipment. The company operated until 1942. Some of the products advertised herein include Nos. 40 and 45 Stover Feed Grinding Mills, Stover Stone Burr Mills, No. 56 Stover Alfalfa Comminuter, Nos. 48 and 49 Alfalfa and Kaffir Corn Grinders, Wagon Box and Sacking Elevators, No. 60 Stover Kaffir Corn Grinder, and Nos. 19 and 20 Ideal Feed Mills. On Pages 19-20 is a brief section of printed text that advises owners of livestock on how to properly water their livestock (for example, it recommends that animals are provided uninhibited access to water at all times) and a table showing the numerical nutritive values of different livestock feeds such as corn, barley, wheat, oats, sorghum, peas, and cotton seed mill. Interspersed throughout the brochure are brief captions arguing for why ground feed is better for livestock than other forms of feed (such as whole or cracked meal) and brief recommendations on how and what to feed different livestock. …

28 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Mint condition. An assortment of knitted novelties, including wash cloths, broom covers, hot water bottle covers, etc. Also offers brushes, patent medicines, slippers.