Credits

Designer

Frank H. Mortimer

Illustrators

Muriel Chamberlain (drawings), Arthur Cushman (water colors)

Illustrations

pen and ink drawings, watercolors

Editor

Alfred Stefferud

Size

5.75 x 9 inches

Pages

xviii, 780, 73 plates

Price

$2.50

Typefaces

10 pt. solid Intertype Baskerville (text), Monotype Garamond (display)

Compositor

U.S. Government Printing Office

Engravers

U.S. Government Printing Office (halftones), Roanoke Engraving (color plates)

Printers

Kingsport Press, U.S. Government Printing Office (endpaper and cover)

Printing method

letterpress

Papers

Bergstrom English Finish, Oxford Coated (plates)

Binder

U.S. Government Printing Office

Binding materials

cloth over boards, Joanna-Western Impreglin Litho Finish, pre-printed by three-color offset

Endpapers

illustrated, one-color offset

Publisher

United States Department of Agriculture