Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro
by Marcus Porcius Cato
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About this eBook
- Author
- Varro, Marcus Terentius, 117 BCE-28 BCE
- Credits
- Produced by Ted Garvin, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- S: Agriculture
- Subject
- Farm management -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 12140
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12140
- Release Date
- April 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION
- 5.CONTENTS — VARRO'S RERUM RUSTICARUM LIBRI TRES — BOOK I — CHAPTER — BOOK II — BOOK III
- 6.NOTE UPON THE ROMAN AGRONOMISTS
- 7.NOTE ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRGIL TO VARRO
- 8.CATO'S DE AGRICULTURA
- 9.VARRO'S RERUM RUSTICARUM
- 10.BOOK I
- 11.I — 1° CONCERNING THE FARM ITSELF
- 12.2° CONCERNING THE EQUIPMENT OF A FARM
- 13.3° CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF A FARM
- 14.4° CONCERNING THE AGRICULTURAL SEASONS
- 15.A CALENDAR OF AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS
- 16.ANOTHER CALENDAR OF SIX AGRICULTURAL SEASONS
- 17.1° PREPARING TIME
- 18.2° PLANTING TIME
- 19.3° CULTIVATING TIME
- 20.4° HARVEST TIME
- 21.5° HOUSING TIME
- 22.6° CONSUMING TIME
- 23.BOOK II
- 24.THE HUSBANDRY OF THE STEADING — I
- 25.FOOTNOTES: — A VIRGINIA RECIPE FOR COOKING HAMS — INDEX
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