Contained within this volume is a detailed and comprehensive guide to general metalworking, with specific information materials, soldering, tools, and methods of sheet metalwork relating to farm and agricultural work. Complete with simple, step-by-step instructions and a plethora of helpful illustrations and diagrams, this is a text that will be of much interest to the novice farmer or farm hand, as well as being of value to anyone with an interest in metalworking. Although old, much of the information contained herein is timeless, making this a great addition to collections of both agricultural and sheet-metalworking literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Need for Sheet-Metalwork on the Farm', 'The Process of Soldering', 'Classes of Solder', 'Soldering Fluxes', 'The Soldering Iron', 'Stock and Tools for Lap Joint', 'Working Instructions for Lap Joints', 'Preparation for Patching', 'Completing the Patch', 'Laying Out and Cutting Tin to Shape', etcetera. We are proud to republish this antiquarian text now complete with a new introduction on metalworking.

Agricultural and Horticultural Engineering: Principles, Models, Systems, and Techniques focuses on the developments in agriculture and horticulture, including the role of engineers in employing measures in the management of plants, animals, and machinery. The book first offers information on the process of surveying, including tape, compass, and aerial surveying, leveling, barometric leveling with the aneroid, plane tabling, and electronic distance measurement and electronic total. The text then takes a look at models of the environment, material properties, and the relationship between stress and strain. The publication examines workshop methods and hydraulics. Topics include soldering, electric arc welding, low temperature brazing, welding using oxygen-acetylene apparatus, hydrodynamics, and water supply requirements. The text also reviews electricity and electronics and power and thermal systems, as well as alternating voltage supplies, electrical motors, electrical safety, power and energy consumption, and the fundamental principles of electronics. The manuscript is a dependable reference for engineers and readers interested in agricultural and horticultural engineering.