American Husbandry Being A Series Of Essays On Agriculture Compiled Principally From The Cultivator And The Genesco Farmer With Additions Etc

Author : Willis Gaylord
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230283197
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book American Husbandry; Being a Series of Essays on Agriculture. Comp. Principally from the Cultivator and the Genesee Farmer written by Willis Gaylord and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter X. miscellaneous. Ode Country--Ocr Whole Country.--Clever: its value for Cattle, for Seed, and for the Soil.--Use of Clover.--Clover and Clover, seed.--Prevention of Smut.--Why is it best to bury Manure?--Butter-making.--Drill Husbandry.--Effect of Steeps.--Modes and Profits of Strawberry Culture.--Statistics of American Wool and Woollen Manufactures.--Experiment in Harvesting Corn.--Cultivation of Cucumbers.--The circumscribed Farmer &c., &c. There is no one business of life which so highly conduces to national prosperity and independence, and to general and individual happiness, as the cultivation of the soil. Agriculture may be regarded, says the great Sully, as the breasts from which the state derives its support and nourishment. Agriculture is truly our nursing mother, which nurtures, and gives growth, and wealth, and moral health, and character to our country. It may be considered as the great wheel which moves all the machinery of society; and that whatever gives to this a new impulse or energy, communicates a corresponding impetus to the thousand minor wheels of interest which it propels and regulates. Providence seems wisely to have ordained, that because this is the most necessary employment towards the subsistence and comfort of the human family, its labours shall receive the highest and most substantial reward. While the other classes of society are directly dependant upon agriculture for a regular and sufficient provision of the means of subsistence, the agriculturist is enabled to supply all the absolute wants of life from his own labours, though he derives most of his pleasures and profits from an in Vol, I.--T terchange of the products of his industry with the other classes of society. Agriculture has been called..