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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

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

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