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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... knowledge which he cannot acquire by intuition . Every pre- paratory work is thus perplexing to the young farmer . Field work being thus chiefly anticipatory , is the circumstance which renders its object so perplexing to the learner ...
... knowledge , very few , if any , are compe- tent to impart . The pupils , being thus very much left to their own applica- tion , can scarcely avoid being beset with difficulties , and losing much time . At same time it must be ...
... knowledge , they have no al- ternative but to peruse those that are extant . For the sake of the young farmer , the usual contents of agricultural books require further consideration . Let any systematic work on prac- tical agriculture ...
... are unfitted to impart agricultural knowledge suited to beginners ; because , 1st , ope- rations are not described in the order in which they occur on the farm ; 2d , the descriptions omit many of the minutiae of 10 THE BOOK OF THE FARM .
... knowledge of agriculture , and therefore cannot ex- tend their sympathies to those who have ; -perhaps the exhibition of an intimate acquaintance with the minutiae of farming appears too trivial an accomplishment to arrest the attention ...
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The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Farm ..., Volum 1 Henry Stephens Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1844 |
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