State of California Cattle Protection Board Cattle Brands and Licensed Slaughterers 1918 [cover title: The California Brand Book 1919]

[Cattle Brands] Cattle Protection Board of California

Edité par Cattle Protection Board, San Francisco, CA, 1918

San Francisco, CA: Cattle Protection Board, 1918. First Edition. Thin octavo. 355; [1]pp. 245 pages of brand marks. Red cloth stamped in black. With a brand and ear mark handwritten on wood, property of a Frank Roach of Phelps Ranch. Boards worn and/or gnawed at extremities with minor fraying; a few spots and scuffs. Binding sound and interior unmarked. Includes thousands of registered ear and brand marks with index, text and synopsis of the Cattle Protection Act, designed to prevent cattle thieving, and a list of license slaughterers by county. The Cattle Protection Board only lasted two years before being subsumed by the Department of Food and Agriculture. Records of their work uncommon in retail; a lovely record of early 20th-century California cattle business. [Adams, Rampaging Herd 396]. N° de réf. du vendeur 31915

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Titre : State of California Cattle Protection Board ...
Éditeur : Cattle Protection Board, San Francisco, CA
Date d'édition : 1918
Etat : Very Good
Edition : Edition originale