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قراءة كتاب 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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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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WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING:
A SERIES OF
BRIEF AND PLAIN EXPOSITIONS
OF
PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE
AS AN ART BASED UPON SCIENCE:
By
HORACE GREELEY.
"I know
That where the spade is deepest driven,
The best fruits grow."
John G. Whittier.
NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION.
1871.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
HORACE GREELEY,
at the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS.
PAGE | ||
I. | Will Farming Pay? | 13 |
II. | Good and Bad Husbandry | 18 |
III. | Where to Farm | 23 |
IV. | Preparing to Farm | 29 |
V. | Buying a Farm | 34 |
VI. | Laying off a Farm; Pasturing | 39 |
VII. | Trees; Woodlands; Forests | 44 |
VIII. | Growing Timber; Tree-Planting | 49 |
IX. | Planting and Growing Trees | 56 |
X. | Draining; My Own | 62 |
XI. | Draining Generally | 69 |
XII. | Irrigation; Means and Ends | 74 |
XIII. | Possibilities of Irrigation | 79 |
XIV. | Plowing, Deep or Shallow | 85 |
XV. | Plowing, Good and Bad | 91 |
XVI. | Thorough Tillage | 96 |
XVII. | Commercial Fertilizers—Gypsum. | 102 |
XVIII. | Alkalis—Salt, Ashes, Lime. | 107 |
XIX. | Soils and Fertilizers | 112 |
XX. | Bones, Phosphates, Guano | 118 |
XXI. | Muck—How to Utilize It | 124 |
XXII. | Insects; Birds | 129 |
XXIII. | About Tree-Planting | 134 |
XXIV. | Fruit-Trees—The Apple | 139 |
XXV. | More about |