The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Farm-steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattle-man, Field-worker, and Dairymaid, Volume 1Blackwood, 1844 - 326 páginas Replete with instruction and knowledge honed with experience, The Book of the Farm remains one of the finest agricultural guidebooks ever produced. The 19th century saw the maturation of farming in Western Europe, with intensive methods and efficiencies achieved as never before. Published in the 1840s and successively revised over subsequent decades, this book is a summation of the ingenuity of large-scale agriculture. The production of ever-greater harvests required skill; no longer could any farm be maintained by rudimentary methods taught by example - farming had become a sophisticated, professional discipline reliant upon science and machinery. Aimed at informing prospective students of farming, this work makes no secret of the difficulty and wits required of the modern farmer. Over 100 illustrations depict the tools required, from hoes and ploughs to the traction steam engines that served as forerunners to the modern tractor. Over 80 charts detail all manner of records: animal and crop weights, their prices on the market, mineral levels present in soil and fertilizer, costs of machinery and day-to-day operations. In all, The Book of the Farm is both a superb agricultural history and guide, filled with insight and techniques useful even in the modern day. |
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... change in the gale subservient to the safety of his ship ; navigation itself , not being more dependent on weather than is farming . By pursuing a course of observation and investigation such as this , the mind of the young farmer will ...
... change it for all the works on agriculture that have been published of late years . To me it is matter of surprise that such a work has never yet been written by any of the prominent writers on agriculture in this prolific age of books ...
... changes cannot be trusted . Geologists , at first engaged in ascertaining the relative positions of the harder rocks composing the crust of the earth , have only of late years directed their attention to the investigation of the more ...
... changes of climate incidental to this country . But there is one view in which botanical physiology may be of use to agriculture , and that is , in ascertaining correctly the nature , properties , and relative values of plants . To shew ...
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The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Farm ..., Volume 1 Henry Stephens Visualização integral - 1844 |
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