author
Frank Webster Farley
b. 1888
A practical early 20th-century writer on cattle raising and beef production, he wrote for farmers, students, and agricultural readers interested in how the industry worked on the ground. His surviving books focus on breeding, farm management, and the history of beef cattle in Illinois.
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History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois
by Frank Webster Farley
About the author
Frank Webster Farley, listed in library catalogs as Frank W. Farley and born in 1888, was an American agricultural writer whose work centered on beef cattle and livestock management. Records gathered from major library and book databases connect him with a small body of early 20th-century publications on cattle production and farm practice.
His known works include History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois, identified in the Project Gutenberg text as a 1915 Bachelor of Science in Agriculture thesis at the University of Illinois. Other cataloged titles include Dehorning and Castrating Cattle (1918), Growing Beef on the Farm (1919), The Cut-Over Pine Lands of the South for Beef-Cattle Production (1921, with S. W. Greene), and Raising Beef Cattle on Farm and Range.
Farley’s writing appears to have been grounded in practical agriculture rather than literary fame. Even with limited biographical detail available, his books show a clear interest in making cattle raising more systematic and better documented, from everyday animal management to the broader development of the beef industry.