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James Henry Greene

Known today through early 20th-century agricultural manuals, this little-documented writer helped create practical guides for garden, corn, and pig clubs. His surviving books have a clear, hands-on feel, aimed at teaching useful skills rather than showing off literary style.

1 Audiobook

Pig Raising: A Manual for Pig Clubs

Pig Raising: A Manual for Pig Clubs

by Aretas Wilbur Nolan, James Henry Greene

About the author

James Henry Greene was an American writer best known as the co-author of practical agricultural guides from the 1910s. Records available online connect his name with books including Vegetable Gardening and Canning, Corn Growing, and Pig Raising, works made for club-based instruction and everyday farm education.

The available sources suggest that Greene wrote in a straightforward, instructional tradition focused on helping young growers and rural communities build useful skills. Much of the surviving information about him comes from library catalogs and public-domain book records rather than detailed biographical accounts, so personal details about his life are not well documented in the sources I could confirm.

Even with that limited record, his work offers a small but interesting window into early agricultural education in the United States, when manuals like these were created to support organized garden and livestock clubs.