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John S. Trecartin
A practical early-20th-century writer, he is best known for sharing hands-on advice about squab farming drawn from his own work in New Jersey. His surviving published record paints the picture of an author focused on useful instruction rather than literary showmanship.
1 Audiobook
Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit
by John S. Trecartin
About the author
John S. Trecartin is known today for Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit, a farming manual that was later preserved by Project Gutenberg and listed by The Online Books Page. In that book, he presents the subject as a working guide based on personal experience running a large squab plant in New Jersey.
Reliable biographical details about him are limited in the sources I could confirm. An obituary for a different John Trecartin describes a man born in 1926, which appears too recent to match the author of an early-1900s agricultural manual, so I have not used it as biography for this writer.
That leaves an author profile shaped mostly by his book itself: practical, specialized, and rooted in the everyday business of raising and marketing squabs. For listeners interested in vintage how-to writing, his work offers a direct window into a very specific corner of agricultural life.