From: C. S. Th. van Gink’s Poultry paintings / C.S.Th. van Gink, A.W. van Wulfften Palthe and P.C.M. Simons. Beekbergen : Dutch Branch of the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA), 1992. The book with beautiful poultry paintings by van Gink was presented to the participants of the 19th World’s Poultry Congress, Amsterdam 20-24 sept. 1992. […]
From: Collection des modèles anatomiques de cheval, vache, mouton et humain /L.T.J. Auzoux. [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1876-1891. Since 1876 Wageningen UR has owned paper-mache anatomic models made by Dr Louis Auzoux (1797-1880) including a life-size model of a stallion. The anatomical model of the horse is made of painted paper mache and iron wire. The
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From: Handleiding bij het groote model van het paard, aanschouwelijk voorgesteld door vijf beweegbare platen / Eugenius Antonius Ludovicus Quadekker. Deventer : Kluwer, [ca. 1910] The images of the anatomy of the horse were used in Animal Science education. Quadekker was born in Axel, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, in 1854 and died in 1938 in Nijmegen. Quadekker also published a book about horse races painted by Otto Eerelman.
This recipe for apple biscuits is found in De Orange Confiturier: gebak-bereider en keukenmeester / Abrah Reynders. Amsterdam: published by the firm Wed. J. van Egmont in 1752. Pages 15-16. The recipe looks fairly simple, but after combining the ingredients, they are supposed to be baked in half butter and half lard. Most people today will
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A recipe for making apple compote, from the Handleiding voor het maken van jams, geleien, compotes en vla’s. Baarn, circa 1920. Figure 2, pp. 16-17. According to this recipe, you only need a few ingredients to make a tasty apple compote, as long as you have 20 bellflowers.
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Source: ‘Het leerboek der fruitteelt’ / A.M. Sprenger. Zwolle: Tjeenk Willink, 1948. Figure 6, pp. 52-53. This section describes the shapes of various apples and pears. The textbook was used for many years for teaching in Wageningen.
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Pomologia / Johann K.H. Knoop. Leeuwarden: Abraham Ferwerda, 1758. Plate 7 Coloured engraving. The image is from the book ‘Pomologia, dat is beschryvingen en afbeeldingen van de beste zoorten van appels en peeren’. The front page of the book bears the signature of A.M. Sprenger, so this copy probably belonged to Professor Sprenger. The plates
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Testing a beet thinner from 1955. Despite the huge increase in the use of machines in agriculture, manual labour still remained essential for all kinds of work, as can be seen in this picture from 1955. The photo was taken by A. Moens and displays workers thinning beets on the farm of C.J. de Rijke
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Fordson was a brand name of tractors and trucks manufactured by Henry Ford & Son Inc, and later by Ford Motor Company from 1917 to 1964 in the US and after that in the UK. The tractors were first built in Detroit since 1920. Ford decided to reduce the price of the Fordson after sales
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Onze Landbouwwerktuigen; Goes, 1909. The locomobile was a portable steam engine that drove the threshing machine. The locomobile, used here for threshing white mustard crops, is on the right in this photo.
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