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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Portraits (illustrator). First American Edition. Xxii, 340 Pp. + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Grey Cloth, Gilt. First American Edition. Wear, Small Frays At Corners, Hinges Tight. Cover Gilt Brilliant, Spine Gilt Clear And Bright But Not Strong. Ownership Signature Dated Oct. 16, 1900, Of V. H. Schoffelmayer. Victor Humbert Schoffelmayer, Newspaper Writer And Agricultural Authority, Was Born In 1878 In Stuttgart, Germany. After He Moved To Texas To Ameliorate His Own Tuberculosis, Schoffelmayer Worked For William Menger As A Writer On The Southern Messenger. He Taught School Briefly In Pilot Point, Texas, In 1897, Studied Painting Under George Upp In Missouri, And Then Opened A Piano Studio In Keokuk, Iowa. Beginning In 1905 Schoffelmayer Was A Reporter On A Number Of Newspapers In Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, And Minnesota. He Was The Art And Music Critic On The Minneapolis Journal Before He Became Editor In 1913 Of The Southwest Trail, A Monthly Agricultural-Development Journal Financed By The Rock Island Railroad Lines To Attract Settlers To The Southwest. Working Out Of Chicago, He Edited The Southwest Trail At A Time When There Were Few Agricultural Bulletins Published. He And His Wife, Carrie, Traveled Over 50,000 Miles A Year In A Special Railroad Car, Promoting Farm Machinery And Distributing Agricultural Literature. In December 1917 Schoffelmayer Began Working For George Bannerman Dealy As Field Editor Of The Semi-Weekly Farm News, A Subsidiary Of The Dallas Morning News; Soon Thereafter He Became Agricultural Editor Of The Dallas Morning News. During The 1920S And 1930S His Department Urged A Diversified Farming Program For The Small Farmers Of Texas. His Insistence On The Need For Crop Diversification Led To The Establishment Of The Institute Of Technology And Plant Industry At Southern Methodist University (Later Separated From The University And Renamed The Texas Research Foundation). Schoffelmayer Was In Charge Of Radio Station Wfaa's "Farm Hour" From Its Beginning In The Mid-1930S Until His Retirement In 1947, After Which He Served As A Consultant On The Staff Of The Southwest Research Institute. During His Long Career He Did Much To Advance Farming And Ranching Methods In Texas. He Was The Author Of Four Books: Texas At The Crossroads (1935); White Gold (1941), The Story Of The Cotton Industry Of The Southwest; Here Comes Tomorrow (1942), A Study Of Texas Agricultural Methods And Related Problems In European Farming; And Southwest Trails To New Horizons (1960), An Autobiography. Schoffelmayer Served As President Of The Texas Chemurgic Council And As A Member Of The Board Of Trustees For The Texas A&M Foundation And Board Of Governors Of The National Farm Chemurgic Council. In 1937 He Served As President Of The Texas Geographic Society, And In 1939 The Dallas Agriculture Club Elected Him Man Of The Year. He Died On April 30, 1962, In Durate, California, And Was Buried There.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No DJ. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. 337 Pp. Red Cloth, First Printing Stated. Slight Usage, Gilt Bright, Hinges Tight, No Fraying. Ownership Signature, Dated July 25, 1938, Of Victor Schoffelmayer, Who Became Agricultural Editor Of The News In 1924; He Is Also Thanked At The End Of The Book For Reading And Commenting On The Manuscript; Not Signed By Acheson. Signed by Author(s).