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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... cost more to maintain than that on a farm ; but , on the other hand , the salary of the tutor would in this case be saved , and there would be no farmer and his family to sup- port . To assist in defraying the extra expenses of such an ...
... cost their parents above 100 louis or 120 louis a - year . Strangers pay him 125 louis , including board , clothing ... costs him L.56 a - year to maintain and educate , SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE . 51.
... cost of the pupils . † There is an agricultural school at Hohenheim , in the Duchy of Wir- temberg , and another at Flottbeck in Flanders , belonging to M. Voght . An account of both these institutions is given by M. Bella , in the ...
... cost them to learn it , -imagin- ing that the money would be better laid out in their new speculation , — yet worse - founded opinions could not be entertained ; for although advanced in life , and thereby enfeebled before leaving the ...
... cost of keeping the son at home , following his father as idly as his shadow , or of sending him to college . Even in this pecuniary point of view , the alternative consists merely of the difference of maintenance at home , and that in ...