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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... Wood - Engravings ; whereas , the actual number deemed necessary for the entire completeness of these departments , has been extended to thirty - three Plates , and up- wards of six hundred Wood - Engravings , the very space occu- pied ...
... WOOD . The Engravings were executed by MR BRANSTON , London . THE STEADING . THE FITTINGS UP OF A PROPOSED STEADING ... wooden paling . THE pruning of thORN - HEDGES . Fig . 387. A correctly shaped thorn - hedge . 143. The origin of ...
... wooden rhomboidal harrows , with their yoke of swing - trees . 380. The iron rhomboidal harrows , with their yoke of swing ... wood's grubber , in Plate XXX . 415. View in perspective of Kirkwood's grubber , in Plate XXX . 416. The Ducie ...
... wooden barley- riddle . 312. The meshes of a wire barley - rid- dle . 313. The meshes of a wooden oat - riddle . 314. The meshes of a wire oat - riddle . 315. The corn - basket or rusky of wicker- work . 316. The sack - barrow . 317 ...
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