The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Farm-steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattle-man, Field-worker, and Dairymaid, Volum 1Blackwood, 1844 - 326 sider 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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... indicate to him the relative pro- gress which all the operations should make , from time to time , towards the attainment of their various ends , he would thereby acquire a far greater quantity of professional information , and have ...
... indicating the best modes of management , and shewing the way of learning those modes most easily . By these , the practice of ex- perienced farmers might be communicated and recommended to beginners . By consulting those which had been ...
... indicate what the other cannot so well do , in which period any particular operation is commenced , continued , or terminated ; and it gives the details of each operation much more minutely than the other method . The agricultural year ...
... indicated . The effects which a change of weather has in altering the arrangements of work fixed upon , and of substituting another more suited to the change , is not suffi- ciently explained . Instead of receiving explanatory ...
... of streams and of dammed - up water on embank- ments , to suggest plans for the recovery of land from rivers and the sea , and to indicate the states of the weather which increase SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE . 41.
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