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[6th ed.] ; 95 p. illus. 19 cm. ; LCCN: 61-13463 ; OCLC: 4755625 ; LC: SF395; Dewey: 636.4074 ; "J. E. Nordby is too well known in his section of Whatcom county to need formal introduction to the readers of this work. Eminently a self-made man, hone stly earning every dollar in his possession, he ranks with the most enterprising and successful of his compeers and has won a name and reputation which place him among the leading citizens of his community. Mr. Nordby was born in Norway on the 27th day of January, 1867, and is a son of Evan and Maren (Guldbrasen) Nordby, who were born and reared in Norway. The family came to the United States in 1883, settling at Park River, North Dakota, where the father homesteaded one hundred and sixty acre s of land and also preempted a like amount, and to the cultivation of this land he devoted the remainder of his active life, his death occurring there about 1909. The mother died in 1895. On his arrival in North Dakota , [J E Nordby] rented a ranch, to the operation of which he devoted his time until 1887, when he went to the Big Bend, Washington, where in the spring of 1888, he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and bought eighty acres more. He planted this land to wheat until 1903, when he sold out and went to Douglas county, Washington, where he bought a stock ranch, which he conducted until 1911, when he sold it. He then came to Whatcom county and bought eighty acres near Ferndale, which he kept about a year and then sold, buyin g eighty five and a half acres two and a half miles northeast of Ferndale. The greater part of the land was cleared, in addition to which he cleared twenty acres more, and he now has about sixty-five acres in cultivation, raising diversified crops, principally hay and grain. He also has a nice two-acre orchard of bearing trees, and keeps twenty-one good grade milk cows of the Holstein breed. He is a wide-awake, energetic farmer, thoroughly understands his business, and is being rewarded with a gratifying measure of prosperity."--from History of Whatcom County, Volume II, by Lottie Roeder Roth, 1926, pages 557-558. ; Nordby later became the director of the Western Sheep Breeding Laboratory of the USDA, and was sent to Cairo, Egypt by the Foreign Agricultural Service ; Herbert Lattig was Dean of the College of Agriculture at Idaho University ; numerous black and white photos ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket, else G. Seller Inventory # 5145
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Title: Selecting, fitting, and showing swine.
Publisher: Danville, Ill., Interstate Printers & Publishers, 1961.
Publication Date: 1961
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 5th or later Edition
Book Type: Book
