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ANON. Modern Gardening with Iron Age Tools.
Grenloch, NJ: Bateman Manufacturing Co.; Toronto, ON: The Bateman-Wilkinson Co., nd (191-?). Small 4to., orig. colour-printed pictorial wrappers, (21)pp. Profusely illustrated. Crease with rubbing at centre of upper wrapper (where pamphlet has been folded in half vertically - it is unclear whether it was intended to be folded) o/w fine.
In 1912 the American company Bateman Manufacturing acquired two Canadian companies, the Wilkinson Plow Company and the Toronto Pressed Steel Company, and continued to operate them as the Bateman-Wilkinson Company. The booklet suggests that gardening with Iron Age tools “combines delightful, profitable work with an education in nature and health. Golf and tennis are soon discarded by men and women who garden the ‘Iron Age’ way.”