238 pp. This work contains the most important information on agriculture. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Chymistry--General Principles; Calorie; Oxygen; Nitrogen; Atmosphere; Carbon--Carbonic Acid; Light--Electricity; Hydrogen; Water; The Earths; How Tillable Lands Are Made; Composition of Arable Lands; Vegetable Nutriment; Properties of Mixed Earths, and Their Cultivation; The Nature of Manures--Varieties; Stimulating Manures--Lime, Plaster, Ashes, and Marl; Improvement of the Soil; Succession of Crops; Grasses; Hemp; Hops; Rutabaga; Pasture; The Culture of Silk; History of Silk; Silk-Continued; Sugar Made From Beets; Beet Sugar--Continued; Best Breeds of Cattle; The Different Breeds of Neat Cattle Compared; On Buying and Stocking a Farm with Cattle; The Cow--Raising Calves; Working Oxen; Pasturing Cattle; Soiling Cattle; Stallfeeding Beef Cattle; Milch Kine; The Pasture and Other Food Best for Cows, as It Regards Their Milk; The Management of Milk and Cream--Making and Preserving Butter; Making and Preserving Cheese; Swine; Diseases of Cattle; Diseases Peculiar to Oxen, Cows, and Calves; Diseases of Horses; Sheep; The Farmyard.
