What I Know Of Farming:

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Author

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Title

What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science

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Produced by Barbara Kosker, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

S: Agriculture

Subject

Agriculture -- United States

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Text

eBook-No.

35696

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35696

Release Date

March 27, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING: — A SERIES OF BRIEF AND PLAIN EXPOSITIONS OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE AS AN ART BASED UPON SCIENCE: — By
2. 2.HORACE GREELEY. — NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION. 1871. — TO — THE MAN OF OUR AGE, — WHO SHALL MAKE THE FIRST PLOW PROPELLED BY — STEAM, — OR OTHER MECHANICAL POWER, WHEREBY NOT LESS THAN — TEN ACRES PER DAY — SHALL BE THOROUGHLY PULVERIZED TO A — DEPTH OF TWO FEET, — AT A COST OF NOT MORE THAN TWO DOLLARS PER ACRE, — THIS WORK IS ADMIRINGLY DEDICATED BY
3. 3.THE AUTHOR.
4. 4.CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS.
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING.
7. 7.I. — WILL FARMING PAY?
8. 8.II. — GOOD AND BAD HUSBANDRY.
9. 9.III. — WHERE TO FARM.
10. 10.IV. — PREPARING TO FARM.
11. 11.V. — BUYING A FARM.
12. 12.VI. — LAYING OFF A FARM—PASTURING.
13. 13.VII. — TREES—WOODLAND—FORESTS.
14. 14.VIII. — GROWING TIMBER—TREE-PLANTING.
15. 15.IX. — PLANTING AND GROWING TREES.
16. 16.X. — DRAINING—MY OWN.
17. 17.XI. — DRAINING GENERALLY.
18. 18.XII. — IRRIGATION—MEANS AND ENDS.
19. 19.XIII. — THE POSSIBILITIES OF IRRIGATION.
20. 20.XIV. — PLOWING—DEEP OR SHALLOW.
21. 21.XV. — PLOWING—GOOD AND BAD.
22. 22.XVI. — THOROUGH TILLAGE.
23. 23.XVII. — COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS—GYPSUM.
24. 24.XVIII. — ALKALIS ... SALT—ASHES—LIME.
25. 25.XIX. — SOILS AND FERTILIZERS.
26. 26.XX. — BONES—PHOSPHATES—GUANO.
27. 27.XXI. — MUCK—HOW TO UTILIZE IT.
28. 28.XXII. — INSECTS—BIRDS.
29. 29.XXIII. — ABOUT TREE-PLANTING.
30. 30.XXIV. — FRUIT-TREES—THE APPLE.
31. 31.XXV. — MORE ABOUT APPLE-TREES.
32. 32.XXVI. — HAY AND HAY-MAKING
33. 33.XXVII. — PEACHES—PEARS—CHERRIES—GRAPES.
34. 34.XXVIII. — GRAIN-GROWING—EAST AND WEST.
35. 35.XXIX. — ESCULENT ROOTS—POTATOES. — FOOTNOTE:
36. 36.XXX. — ROOTS—TURNIPS—BEETS—CARROTS
37. 37.XXXI — THE FARMER'S CALLING.
38. 38.XXXII. — A LESSON OF TO-DAY.
39. 39.XXXIII. — INTELLECT IN AGRICULTURE.
40. 40.XXXIV. — SHEEP AND WOOL-GROWING.
41. 41.XXXV. — ACCOUNTS IN FARMING.
42. 42.XXXVI. — STONE ON A FARM.
43. 43.XXXVII. — FENCES AND FENCING.
44. 44.XXXVIII. — AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS.
45. 45.XXXIX. — SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE.
46. 46.XL. — FARM IMPLEMENTS.
47. 47.XLI. — STEAM IN AGRICULTURE.
48. 48.XLII. — CO-OPERATION IN FARMING.
49. 49.XLIII. — FARMERS' CLUBS.
50. 50.XLIV. — WESTERN IRRIGATION.
51. 51.XLV. — SEWAGE.
52. 52.XLVI. — MORE OF IRRIGATION.
53. 53.XLVII. — UNDEVELOPED SOURCES OF POWER.
54. 54.XLVIII. — RURAL DEPOPULATION.
55. 55.XLIX. — LARGE AND SMALL FARMS.
56. 56.L. — EXCHANGE AND DISTRIBUTION.
57. 57.LI. — WINTER WORK.
58. 58.LII. — SUMMING UP.
59. 59.INDEX. — THE END.
60. 60.Horace Greeley's Autobiography. — OUR AMERICAN BOYS, — THESE RECOLLECTIONS
61. 61.THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC ,
62. 62.POLITICAL ECONOMY, — EWBANK'S — Pear Culture for Profit. — Money in the Garden. — THE Elements of Agriculture — Draining for Profit and Draining for Health. — Earth Closets and Earth Sewage.
63. 63.New-York Tribune — Address THE TRIBUNE, New York.

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