![](https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/EGemoI2NTXmTsBVtJqk8jxF9rh8ApRWfsIMQSt2uE4OcpQqbFu7f7NbTK05lx80nuSijCz7sc3a277R67g=s32)
A Google user
Acceptable for an old reciepts book. No TOC with page numbers, just alphabetical order, so expect a lot of scrolling.
![](https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/EGemoI2NTXmTsBVtJqk8jxF9rh8ApRWfsIMQSt2uE4OcpQqbFu7f7NbTK05lx80nuSijCz7sc3a277R67g=s32)
A Google user
This book is an alphabetic collection of notes on everything originally compiled around 1890 and reissued as late as 1900. It was superseded by :The Scientific American Cyclopedia of Formulas" in 1910. Oddly, this makes this book a little more interesting and useful. It is more interesting because it goes a little farther back in the past. It is more useful because the formulas and methods it presents are closer to what a farmer might be able to do without much special gear or industrially produced chemicals and materials. It is organized alphabetically instead of in sections making it more of a reference work and less of a guide book. Because the formulas and receipts in this book are older, fewer modern chemicals are called for, and it is more like a collection of old farmers and craftsmens secrets. This makes it more interesting to the survivalist, the homesteader wanting alternatives to modern methods, and similar persons.