Original Kraft 3-Pack – Ruled

01. Proudly printed by the good people of Service Graphics, Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

02. Cover: French Dur-O-Tone 80#C "Packing Brown Wrap," with a thick, brute force, 1-color application of "Dachshund Nose" black soy-based Toyo ink.

03. Innards: Finch Paper Opaque Smooth 60#T "Bright White," with a fine, 1-color application of "Double Knee Duck Canvas" light brown soy-based Toyo ink.

04. Cover printed on a Mitsubishi Diamond Series 40" 6-color printing press.

05. Innards printed on a Miller TP104 28" × 40" 2-color printing press.

06. Bound by a Heidelberg ST350 "Stitchmaster" 8-pocket saddle stitcher, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the "Founding Fathers of the Staple."

07. Corners precisely rounded to 3/9" (9.5mm) by a CRC round-corner machine.

08. Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm). Ruled lines: 1/4" (6.4mm). Crisp plain paper. 48 Pages.

09. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm x 140mm).

10. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.

11. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.

Field Notes in general, and the National Crop Edition specifically, owe their existence to a tradition of promotional memo books distributed to American farmers over the last hundred years by seed, tractor, and other agricultural companies.

Field Notes co-founder Aaron Draplin has been collecting these for years, “rescuing them” from obscurity.