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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... Horse . The property of Messrs Howey and Co. , Edinburgh . VIII . Brood - Sow . The property of the Duke of Buccleuch , Dalkeith Park . IX . Elevation and Plan of the Lanarkshire or Wilkie's Plough . X. Elevation and Plan of the Mid ...
... horses . 202. The swing - trees for four horses . 203. Another swing - trees for four horses . 379. The wooden rhomboidal harrows , with their yoke of swing - trees . 380. The iron rhomboidal harrows , with their yoke of swing - trees ...
... horse - course of the thrashing - machine , in Plate XXIII . 334. Elevation of the horse - course of the thrashing - machine , in Plate XXIII . 335a and 3356. The reeving of the pul- leys of the ring - chain of the horse - wheel of the ...
... horse - bot ( Gastrophilus equi ) . 455. The horse - fly ( Chrysops cœcutiens ) . 456. The horse forest - fly ( Hippobosca equina ) , bird spider - fly ( Ornitho- mia avicularia ) , and sheep - ked ( Melophagus ovinus ) . 466. Maggot of ...
... HORSES . 582. Shewing the points of the draught- horse . 583. Shewing the points of the draught- stallion . Fig . 584. Shewing the points of the draught- mare . 597. The vertical section of the head of an adult horse , shewing the teeth ...
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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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