Farming for Pleasure and Profit: Dairy Farming, Management of Cows, Etc. - Couverture souple

The present Work suggested by inexperienced Friends Being One sown Customer Arthur Young, and a Book of Experiments Jethro Tull -C ircumstances which caused me to turn my first Attention to Farming Common Error that Professiona,! Farmers are the best First Experiment with Selling Turnips Business Men and Gentlemen above Dealing with trifling A mounts The finer IC inds of Vegetables Selling Shelled Peas Carrying Vegetables up to Town Selling Porker Pigs to a Pork-butcher Skimmed Milk Cooks and Vegetables Contrivance for Kitchen Refuse Conscientious Foreman often branded as a Tell-tale. It has often been suggested to me by various friends engaged in business that I should publish an account of the methods of cultivation and management which I have adopted upon my little farm, consisting of fifty-five acres, made up of forty acres of grass-land and plantations the latter being, perhaps, five acres in extent ten of arable, and five of hops; giving a detailed account of the technical treatment pursued in the case of each crop, and also of stock; in order that my experience may be serviceable to those who, like myself, at the period when I first turned my attention to the matter, are destitute of practical acquaintance with the subject.
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