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| 1862 | Poor | Wrap completely missing. Main content intact. Riddled with tiny specks, like fly spots, but throughout the issue. Feature article entitled "Going to Law." |
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| 1876 | Good | Surprisingly well preserved. The centennial of the U.S. issue and interestingly, barely referenced. 34 pages with no advertisements. Feature article entitled "Treed by Wolves." |
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| 1882 | Poor | Front cover missing, pages loose, many small crease and edge fragments missing. Feature article entitled "Peter Freancisco -- A Story of the Revolution." Only the first page of the feature article intact. Remaining pages missing. |
| 1883 | Poor | Complete issue of 34 pages but a significantly different paper used. Brittle, very much darkened, cracking, etc. Someone whip-stitched the binding. Needs to be scanned before lost. Feature article entitled "Rescue of Geo. Washington by Count Pulaski." |
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| 1885 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "A Midnight Ride with a Panther." |
| 1886 | Good | 34 pages. A better paper used this issue. Remained brighter. A small, 3 x 5 quad fold price list of the Standard Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio with the Pittsburg, PA agent of C. C. Emmons printed on the back was found inside. Perhaps a "blow in" advertisement? Feature article entitled "The Camel, or the 'Ship of the Desert'." |
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| 1889 | Good | 34 pages. Someone whip-stiched the binding. Feature article entitled "The Carrier-Pigeon Postal Service." |
| 1890 | Good | 34 pages. Someone whip-stiched the binding. Feature article entitled "A tragedy at an Indian Dance." |
| 1891 | Poor | 34 Pages. Cover torn in half. Company address changes from 15 North Queen Street to No. 15-17 North Queen Street."Story of the Revolution" included as the feature article for the year. Perhaps the Centennial issue was too close to the actual war. |
| 1892 | Poor | 34 pages. Back cover torn in half but otherwise intact. Feature article entitled "Simon Kenton's Thrilling Adventures Among the Indians." |
| 1893 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "Patriotism of Mother Bailey." |
| 1894 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "The American Eagle." |
| 1894 | Poor | Front and back covers missing. Lots of tears. |
| 1895 | Poor | Front and back covers missing. Lots of tears. |
| 1895 | Poor | Front cover spearated from the back cover loose and torn. Need to scan remains as soon as possible. Feature article entitled, "Old Smoke" which was an excerp from Francis Parkman's "The Oregon Trail." |
| 1896 | Poor | 34 Pages. Front and rear covers missing, pages loose from spine, several pages have closed tears |
| 1896 | Good | 34 Pages. Feature article entitled "Baptism of the Indian Princess Pocohontas." |
| 1897 | Poor | Covers are ripped and have open tears, loose from spine. Half of back cover missing. |
| 1898 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "The Bull and the Bicycle in Mexico." |
| 1898 | Poor | Front and back covers missing. Lots of tears. |
| 1899 | Poor | Lots of tears. |
| 1899 | Good | 34 pages. Paper quite yellowed. Feature article entitled "The Klondike Gold Fields." Other monthly articles include, "Tomatoes Under Glass", "Green Manuring", "Tree Planting in Waste Places", "The Value of a Reputation", "Keeping Cider Sweet", "Farm Sanitation", "The Soy Bean", "Potato Philosophy", "The Cultivation of the Chestnut", "Toads", "The Observance of Easter". |
| 1900 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "New Battleship Maine". Other monthly articles include, "Orchard Manuring", "Testing Tobacco and Seed Oats", "Laying Ducks", "Tomato Leaf Blight", "Corn Shredders", "Young Turkeys", "Farm Beekeeping", "Healthy Potatoes", "Peas for Hogs", "Bone Meal", "Seed Corn", "The Grape Vine", "Winter Composts". |
| 1901 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "The Horrors of War". Monthly articles include, "Use and Abuse of Fertilizer", "Poultry Yard", "The Twentieth Century", "Testing Seeds Cheaply", "True value of Manure", "Tobacco Experiments", "Apple Raising", "Money from Turkeys", "Wire for Lima Beans", "Making the Most of the Garden", "Keep the Barn in Repair", "Fatten More Cattle", "What of Our Orchards?", "The Labor Problem", "Save the Surplus Fruit", "The Profit in Trees", "Cider Vinegar", "Intelligence Needed", "Wintering Celery", "Feeding Horses". |
| 1902 | Excellent | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "Is China's Emperor a Christian?" Monthly articles include, "To Dress Chicken's", "Traveleing Sheep Pens", "Farmer's Wives", "Thinning Fruit", "Feed the School Children Well", "Feeding Dairy Cows", "A Living From Thirty Acres", "Cost fo Producing Milk", "Hubbardston Apple", "Weakens the Heart (cigarettes)", "Time to Transplant Strawberries", "To Know Good Meat", "Peach Borer", "Children's Hobbies", "Winter Rhubarb". |
| 1903 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "A Pigeon Ranch." Monthly articles include, "True Sure Methods of Destroying the Canada Thistle", "Gain in Cattle", "Influence of the Moon on Timber", "How to Manage Bones", "Cultivation of the Sweet Potato", "The First Printed Book", "Depend on Yourselves", "How to Drive Away Moles", "About Butter", "An Excellent Whitewash", "Cultivation of Parsnips", "The Law of the Road", "Dried or Canned Fruits", "Fall Apples", "The Propet Way to Introduce People", "Fall Planting Trees", "True Meaning of Christmas" |
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| 1905 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "Russian Troops Marching Over the Plains to Manchuria." Monthly articles include, "the Culture and Value of Asparagus", "Money in Horse Breeding", "The Squab Industry", "Why Men Die", "Calves for the Market", "The Peach Orchard", "Distemper in Cattle", "Raspberries in Hills", "Turkey Raising", "Poultry Pointers", "Cord-Wood in an Acre", "To Get Clean Milk", "Tomato Odor as an Insect Repellant", "How to Grow Strawberries", "Coloring Butter", "Treatment for Sore Feet", "Profits From a Small Flock of Sheep", "Blanketing Horses", "Nut Trees for Timber". |
| 1906 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "A Seedless, Coreless, Bloomless Apple." Monthly articles include, "Money-Saving Bugs", "The Observance of Easter", "Hot Milk as a Stimulant", "Hauling of Manure", "Freshness of Eggs", "Animals Need Salt", How to Make Koumiss", "the Size of Orchards", "To Relieve a Choking Cow", "Eat More Cheese and Less Beef", "Source of Dutch Wealth", "Dehorning Young Calves", "A Wash for Fruit Trees", "Fly-Repelling Mixture", "To Keep Crows Away", "Horse Colic and Its Cure", "Summer Hints For Horse Keepers", "Value of the Apple Crop", "Bad-Flavors in Eggs", "To Avoid Fires on the Farm", "Milk Fever and Its Prevention", "When Farm Animals Die", "Concrete on the Farm". |
| 1907 | Excellent | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "An Adventure With Cougars." Monthly articles include, "The Feeding Value of Apple Pomace", "Watering Cows in Winter", "The Secret of Long Life", "The Young Fruit Trees", "Sheep in History", "The Old Orchard", "Kerosene for Sheep Dip", "Soaps As Insecticides", "How to Keep Milk Sweet", "A Strengthening Bath", "trees and Lightening", "Notes on Potato Blight", "the Hot Sand Bag", "Sleep Required", "Kitchen Neglect", Fruit at Wholesale". |
| 1908 | Excellent | 34 pages. Company changes there description from its past "Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers" to "Printers & Publishers". Additionally they moved to Nos. 14-16 North Christian Street. Feature article entitled "Trees, Old and Curious." Monthly articles include, "To Farm Successfully", "Beans and Corn Frrd", Raspberries for Home Use", "Ideal Barn Floor", "Does Cottonseed Induce Abortion?", "the Cause of Poor Cows", "A Plea for Bird Life", "Land Good For Something", "Onion Eaters Good Humored", "Influence of Soil on Milk", "In Growing Lettuce", "the Kicking Horse", "The Strawberry Bed", The Busy Bee", "Results from Thinning Fruit", "A Popular Food Plant (the tomato)", "Early Rhubarb", "Sweet Corn", "Don't Crowd", "Have Faith in the Farm", "Winter Eggs", "Sunshine in the Stable", "The Influence of Trees", "A Thanksgiving Hymn", "Dressing and Keeping Mutton", "A Christmas Song of Praise". |
| 1909 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "Frog Farming." Monthly articles include, "The Farm Water", "Mulch in the Feed", "Exposure of Cows", "Tree Labels", "Long Lives and Short", "Where Holsteins Originated", "Parsnips for Market", "Black Locusts", "To Transplant a Pint", "Science and Farming", "Rotating Crops", "Seedless Tomatoes", "The Farmer Boy", "About Footbaths", "Farm Labor", "The Dust Mulch", Fortelling the Weather", "Storing the Onion Crop", "Decaying Vegetable Matter", "Dwarf Fruits", "Feeding for Eggs", "Choking of Animals", "Drying Weather", Managing the Workers", Old Farmers on Old Places", "Fat on the Hog", "Age of Best Work", A Song For Christmas Eve". |
| 1910 | Excellent | 34 pages. Feature article entitled "Fire Fighters of the Wilderness". Monthly articles include, "History of the Baldwin Apple", "The Strawberry", "Asparagus Culture", "Shoe Varnish", "Waterproof Mitts", "Destruction of Insects", "Benzoate in Butter", "The Calendar in Russia", "Clean the Orchard", "How to Preserve Eggs", "Ohms, Amperes and Volts Explained", "Indian Philosophy", "Use Apples Freely", "Cow Feed", "An Apple Orchard", "Manufacturing Paper from Corn Stalks", "Storing Celery", "How to Keep Water Cold", "Care of Young Stock", To Avoid Bowed Legs", "The Legend of the Christmas Tree". |
| 1911 | Good | 34 pages. Feature article was dropped and replaced by additional short, informational articles. |
| 1912 | Excellent | 34 pages. |
| 1913 | Good | 34 pages. Went back to poor grade (high acid) paper. |
| 1914 | Good | 34 pages. Company changed their description to "Publishers and Proprietors of the German and English Lancaster Almanacs." |
| 1915 | Excellent | 34 pages. |
| 1916 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1917 | Good | 34 pages. Address changes to Nos. 227, 229 and 231 North Cherry Street. |
| 1918 | Good | 34 pages. Address changes to 227-231 North Cherry Street. |
| 1919 | Good | 34 pages. Company changed their description to "Publishers of the Agricultural Almanac, Farmer's Almanac, Housekeeper's Almanac, and Uncle Sam's Comic Almanac." |
| 1920 | Excellent | 34 pages. |
| 1921 | Excellent | 34 pages. |
| 1922 | Excellent | 34 pages. |
| 1923 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1924 | Excellent | 34 pages. Company changed their description to "Publishers of the World-Famous Agricultural Almanac." |
| 1925 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1926 | Poor | 34 pages. Cover torn, loose and brittle. Company moved to "Corner of Market and Grant Streets." |
| 1927 | Poor | 34 pages. Back cover torn, loose and brittle. |
| 1927 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1928 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1929 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1930 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1931 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1932 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1933 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1934 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1935 | Excellent | 34 pages. |
| 1936 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1937 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1937 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1938 | Good | 34 pages. |
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| 1950 | Excellent | 36 pages. |
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| 1952 | Excellent | 36 pages. |
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| 1955 | Good | |
| 1956 | Good | |
| 1956 | Excellent | 36 pages. |
| 1957 | Good | |
| 1957 | Good | |
| 1958 | Good | 36 pages. |
| 1958 | Good | |
| 1959 | Good | |
| 1959 | Excellent | 36 pages. |
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| 1961 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1961 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1961 | Good | 34 pages. Writing inside. |
| 1961 | Good | 34 pages. |
| 1962 | Excellent | 36 pages. |
| 1963 | Excellent | 38 pages. |
| 1963 | Good | 38 pages. Coffee cup ring on cover, tear on back cover. |
| 1963 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1963 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1964 | Good | 38 pages. Wrap separating and torn at seam. |
| 1964 | Excellent | 38 pages. |
| 1964 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1965 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1965 | Excellent | 38 pages. |
| 1965 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1966 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1966 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1966 | Good | 38 pages. |
| 1967 | Excellent | 40 pages. |
| 1967 | Good | 40 pages. |
| 1968 | Excellent | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. Format change to smaller page size and heavier weight wrap. |
| 1968 | Good | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. Format change to smaller page size and heavier weight wrap. |
| 1969 | Good | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. |
| 1970 | Good | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. |
| 1971 | Excellent | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. There is definite commercialization and mimicry of The Old Farmers Almanac in content, advertising sales, and in physical size. |
| 1971 | Good | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. |
| 1972 | Good | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. |
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| 1974 | Good | 94 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. Printed on really crappy, high acid paper. |
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| 1980 | Good | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons but published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. |
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| 1986 | Excellent | 96 pages. Copyright by John Baer's Sons. |
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| = | In Collection | |
| = | In Collection - Does Not Need Replaced | |
| = | Need | |
| = | Need Replacement |
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