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James Russel Roberts

Known for a practical guide written for dairy farmers, this early agricultural author focused on the everyday realities of raising feed and managing farm work. Very little biographical information appears to survive online, which gives the work a quietly historical feel.

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Stock and stalks : A book for the dairy farmer

Stock and stalks : A book for the dairy farmer

by James Russel Roberts

About the author

James Russel Roberts is credited as the author of Stock and Stalks: A Book for the Dairy Farmer, a farming title available through Project Gutenberg. From the title and surviving catalog information, he appears to have written with a hands-on, practical audience in mind rather than for a purely academic readership.

Reliable biographical details about Roberts are scarce in the sources available online, so it is hard to say much with confidence about his life, career, or background. What can be said is that his work has lasted as part of the public-domain record, where it continues to interest readers looking at the history of agriculture and dairy farming.

That scarcity of personal detail makes the book itself the clearest introduction to him: a writer concerned with useful knowledge, rural work, and the needs of working farmers.