I am always reading and learning new things. I have hundreds of public domain books that I find relevant to what I do. People often disregard older ways and technologies at their own folly. Here are some free books that are public domain, so feel free to share with others. I will be adding to this constantly as I get more.
If you have a public domain book I don’t have listed that is relevant to small farming or homesteading please send it my way and I will add it to this collection. If you are the author of an ebook that would like to share let me know as well, I am always for sharing knowledge.
Currently these will only be organized by the general subject, later I will try to give a rating to each and list them in that order. I will label anything under 20 pages as a Pamphlet.
Book Categories:
Beekeeping
Cattle
Poultry
Other Livestock
General Homesteading/Farming
Gardening/Crops
Medical
Energy/Tech
Beekeeping:
- Rational Beekeeping & Disease Prevention
- Beekeeping North Carolina 1917 Pamphlet
- Beekeeping Pamphlet
- The Home Apiary Pamphlet
- How to Produce Extracted Honey 1904
Cattle Books:
- 30 Years Among Cows 1897
- The Beef Bonanza, or How To Get Rich On The Plains 1887
- The Cow 1922
- Feeding Cows for Profit 1914
- Effect of Pasture on Grade of Beef 1941
- Economic Factors in Cattle Feeding 1912
- Comparison of Methods of Preparing Corn and Clover Hay for Fattening Stress 1905
- Cattle Feeding in Relation to Farm Management 1925
- Beef Production 1908
- Beef Production in the East 1918
- Beef Mutton and Wool 1920
- A Technical Study of the Digestibility of Corn Stover Silage for Beef Cows 1927
- War Time Beef Production 1944
- The Utilization of Soft Corn in Beef Cattle Feeding 1928
- Summer Rations for Fattening Steers
- Short Fed Steers 1909
- Self Feeding Silage to Beef Cattle From Horizontal Silos 1959
- Progressive Beef Cattle Raising 1920
- Maintenance Rations for Beef Breeding Cows 1906
- How to Choose a Good Cow How to Select Cows 1882
- How to Choose a Good Cow 1911
- Hereford Cattle Premier Beef Breed of the World 1919
- Dexter Cattle ADCA Handbook
- Cattle and Dairy Farming 1887
- Cattle 1853
- A Handbook for the Man Who Keeps Cows for Profit 1912
- Everyman His Own Cattle Doctor 1814
- Small Dairy Innovators Pamphlet 2010
- Beef Cattle Production 1966 Pamphlet
- Finishing 2 Year Old Steers with Grass and Grain Pamphlet 1940
- A Low Cost Shelter and Feed Storage Unit for Beef Cattle Pamphlet 1959
- Dairy Farming 1915
- American Dairying A Manual For Butter and Cheese Makers-1876
- Cattle Their Breeds Management and Diseases-1836
- Silvopasture Handbook 2008
- Dairy Farming 1862
- Dairying Exemplified 1787
- Dairy Farming 1912
- Dairy Farming 1911
- Dairy Farming What Cows to Buy How to House Feed….. 1912
- Milch Cows and Dairy Farming 1867
Poultry:
- A Technical Study of the Growth of White Leghorn Chickens 1931
- Breeding Rearing and Fattening All Kinds of Poultry 1819
- Care and Incubation of Hatching Eggs 2000 pamphlet
- Common Sense on Poultry Raising 1906
- Constructing a Plywood Incubator Pamphlet 1997
- Controlling Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens 2001
- Culling Hens Pamphlet 1997
- Economic Aspects of Retailing Chicken Meat 1953
- Egg Quality Pamphlet
- Housing for Layer Production Pamphlet 2001
- Incubating and Hatching Eggs Pamphlet 2001
- Progressive Poultry Raising 1920
- Raising Chicks Artificially 1906
- Science Applied to Poultry Raising 1920
- Successful Poultry Raising 1915
- Sustainable Chicken Production Pamphlet 1998
- The Chicken Broiler Industry 1971
- The Chicken Business in California 1951
- The Kellerstrass Way of Raising Chickens 1909
- The Minorca Fowl 1893
- The Structure of the Fowl 1915
- The Sussex Fowl 1920
- Beetons Book of Poultry and Domestic Animals: Showing How to Rear and Manage Them-1870
- How to Begin and Survive a Commercial Gamebird Farm
- Farm Poultry 1912
- Game Farming for Profit and Pleasure 1915
Other Livestock:
- Care and Management of Rabbits-1920
- Feeding Pigs on Pasture 1924
- Domestic Animals 1959
- Domestic Animals a Pocket Manual of Cattle Horse and Sheep Husbandry 1858
- Introduction To Missouri Fishes 2011
- Our Domestic Animals in Health and Disease Volume 1 1871
- Our Domestic Animals in Health and Disease Volume 2 1871
- Our Domestic Animals Their Habits Intelligence and Usefulness 1907
General Homesteading/Farming:
- Foxfire 1
- Foxfire 2
- Foxfire 3
- Foxfire 4
- Ten Acres Enough
- Household and Farmers Cyclopedia 1878
- Successful Farming; A Ready Reference On All Phases Of.. 1916
- Farmers Cyclopedia of Agriculture 1904
- Biennial Report Kansas State Board of Ag 1913
- Farming 1918
- Annual Iowa Year Book of Agriculture 1908
- Farm Practice in Northeast Missouri 1908
- Elementary Agriculture 1916
- Principles of Agriculture 1891
- Cyclopedia of American Agriculture vol 1 1907
- Cyclopedia of American Agriculture Vol 2-1909
- Cyclopedia of American Agriculture Vol 3 1922
- The Construction of Concrete Fence Posts 1910
- Dry Farming 1909
- Facts for Farmers; Compost, Animals, Buildings, Crops, Irrigation 1865
- Diseases of Domestic Animals and Poultry…. 1915
- Farm Appliances a Practical Manual 1913
- Feeds and Feeding 1916
- Farm Implements and the Principles of their Construction 1859
- Farm Economy A Cyclopedia of Agriculture for the Practical Farmer 1915
- Farm Buildings With Plans 1917
- Farm Machinery And Farm Motors 1908
- Farming Costs 1921
- Rotational Grazing Pamphlet 2010
- Elements of Agricultural Chemistry 1860
- Experimental Agriculture 1849
- Farming for Boys How to Begin How to Proceed and what to Aim At 1869
- Soils and Fertilizer 1916
- Fox Trapping a Book of Instruction Telling how to Trap Snare Poison and Shoot 1906
- Garden Farming 1913
- Homesteading two Prairie Seasons 1918
- Insects Affecting Domestic Animals – an Account of the Species of Importance in North America 1896
- Life in the Back Woods – a Guide to the Successful Hunting and Trapping of all Kinds of Animals 1875
- Jacques New Manual of the Garden Farm and Barnyard 1870
- Meat Curing and Sausage Making 1922
- Mink Trapping a Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping 1906
- Practical Farming 1907
- Practical Farming and Gardening – Money Saving Methods in Farming 1914
Gardening/Crops:
- Sawdust Mulches For Larger Crops Better Soils 1955
- Hydroponics 1977
- Hydroponics for the Home Gardener
- Backyard Composting 1975
- Basic Soil Improvement for Everyone 1983
- Biochar and SCAD
- Progressive Farming 1949
- Basic Book of Organic Gardening
- Duckweed Pamphlet 2010
- Vegetable Garden Encyclopedia
- A-B-C of Gardening-1915
- American Grape Training-1893
- Beginners Book of Gardening-1911
- Integrated Agri Aquaculture Systems 2003
- Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture Farming Systems 1979
- Gardening For Fun and Food 1977
- Pearl Millet 1903 Pamphlet
- Managing Cover Crops Profitably Hairy Vetch 2007 Pamphlet
- Forage Crops Other Than Grasses 1900
- Fertilizers How to Make Them -1885
- Fruit Farming for Profit a Practical Treatise 1911
- Forest Planting 1893
- Red Clover Pamphlet
- Forage Crops 1900
- Garden Guide the Amateur Gardeners Handbook 1917
- Garden Vegetables and how to Cultivate Them 1866
- Grape Culture and Wine Making in California1888
- How to Grow Vegetables and Garden Herbs – a Practical Handbook and Planting Table for the Vegetable Gardener 1911
- How to Succeed with the Home Orchard 1920
- Injurious Insects of the Orchard Vineyard Field Garden Conservatory Household etc with Remedies for Their Extermination 1883
- Irrigation and Drainage 1918
- Irrigation for the Farm Garden 1893
- Modern High Farming 1886
Medical:
Where There Is No Dentist 2009
Energy/Tech:
- Tubular Plastic Bio-Digesters 2002
- The Biogas Bio Fertilizer Business Handbook Manual 1982
- Guide to Residential Wood Heating 2002
- A Chinese Biogas Manual 1976
- Application of Biomass-Energy Technologies 1993
- BioFuels for Transportation 2006
- Biogas Pamphlet
- Fuel Gas From Cow Dung
- Fuel From Farms
- Hydrogen Wind BioDiesel and Ethanol
- Biogas Plants in Animal Husbandry
- Biogas Technology in the 3rd World
- Design and Operation of a Full-Scale Anaerobic Dairy Manure Digester
- Practical Building of Methane Power Plants
- The Anaerobic Digestion of Livestock Wastes to Produce Methane
- Biogas and Waste Recycling
- Biogas Systems in India 1983
- Compost, Fertilizer, and Biogas Production from Human and Farm Waste in China
- Distillation of Alcohol and De-Naturing
- Running a Biogas Programme
- Village Technology Handbook
- Burning Brick in Down Draft Kilns 1905
Thanks for the great resource. I’ll be watching your site with great interest
Thank You,
-Joseph
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Great site. put me dow as a believer. Pretty good gardener and composter. Looking at meat chickens and eggs. Had cattle before, but commercial way not p[rofitable. Looking at Dexter or Lowline. Add me to your list and thanks a million for your site.
Thanks, I sent you an email Ken.
I tried to open different homesteading site but it always opened to a blank page.
Wgat am I doing wrong?
Sorry I am not sure what you are asking
Here is a link to “The Homestead” by Roberts – 1902: https://archive.org/details/farmsteadmakingo00robe/page/n10/mode/2up
Part-way down the page is a link for the pdf.
You have a wonderful collection here!
Thank You