The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Farm-steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattle-man, Field-worker, and Dairymaid, Volume 1Replete 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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... angle - iron frame - work . 446. The elements of the bracing of a wire field - gate . 447. The wire field - gate with rayed up- fillings . THE BUILDING OF STONE - DYKES . Fig . 510. The frame and foundation of a stone - dyke . 511 ...
... angle of the draught in the cart . 576. The plan of the cart - steelyard . 577. Transverse section of the cart - steel- yard . 578. Longitudinal section of the cart- steelyard . OPERATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE CULTURE OF CORN . Fig . 302 ...
... angles to , the courses of valleys and rivers . Systematic botany can only be useful to agriculture in describing the natural plants which are indigenous to different soils . Botanists have successfully shewn the intimate relation ...
... angles to the south of the granaries . 7. The fixing of the straw - barn to the southward of the granaries , and of course to that of the thrashing - machine , necessarily fixes the position of the stack - yard to the north of both ...
... angle of the large court I , through the gate at the bull's hammels X , to the range of hammels at N , and to the servants ' cow - house Y , by its door near the turnip - store h . It can also be carried right across the same court I ...