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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... season , these epochs correspond exactly with the natural sea- sons of the year . say with the natural seasons , in contradistinction to the common yearly seasons , which are entirely conventional . This ne- cessary and opportune ...
... season . He will never learn to know by perusing a narrative couched in the most gene- ral terms , when an operation is really well performed ; because , to be able to judge of the quality of work , all its minutiæ ought previously to ...
... season in different years . For all that is given in them by way of advice , every operation may as well be performed in one season as in another . No doubt , reference is made , and cannot altoge- ther be avoided being made , to the season ...
... season . This apparent neglect of the great influential power which regulates all farm business , constitutes an ... season , and cannot truly be described in a continued dissertation . The finishing operation of every crop is always ...
... season , exhibits in the farmer superior ability for conducting farming operations : like the experienced mariner , who renders every change in the gale subservient to the safety of his ship ; navigation itself , not being more ...
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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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