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JONES, Mrs. E.M. (Eliza Maria). Dairying for Profit; or, The Poor Man's Cow.
Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1894. Tall 8vo., orig. printed wrappers, 69pp. Frontispiece illustration. Cheap paper browned, verso of frontis stained (faintly visible on frontis image), frontis has chipped lower corner, wrappers are soiled with chipping to the spine and lower corner, however, this is still a good copy of a scarce and cheaply produced pamphlet.
The lower wrapper states that this issue is a “special edition for distribution by the Ontario Department of Agriculture”. Voila notes an 1892 edition with slightly different information on the wrappers and a preface dated 1892, which is 66 pages in length; our edition is copyright 1893 with the preface dated 1893, though the titlepage bears the date 1894. Eliza Jones (1838-1902) revolutionized butter-making in Ontario with her carefully selected herd of Jersey cows. Her book Dairying for Profit was an immediate success and in 1897 she was hailed as “the best known dairywoman on the continent”.