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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484153348
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (533 download)
Book Synopsis The Farmer's Magazine, Vol. 8 by :
Download or read book The Farmer's Magazine, Vol. 8 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Farmer's Magazine, Vol. 8: July to December, 1855 And before even entering upon such propositions, it may be as well briefly to glance at the grand object to be accomplished viz., to supplant horses by a more economical power, cultivating the soil and husbanding its produce more advantageously without them to elevate ploughmen to a higher rank in society and to increase the supply of home-grown food for our manufacturing and commercial interests. If a farmer has to invest some 500 extra in steam-engines and machinery, for instance, and is at the same time obliged to keep up his present strength of men and horses, how is he and the public to be benefited by this additional expenditure P The practical man must not over look the fact that the number of horses required in seed-time are generally needed for carrying in harvest so that if he invents or adepts machinery to perform the work of the one season, and not that of the other, he falls short of the grand object in view; in other words, his project is not a practical one. Any machine capable of superseding or doing the work of the horse must, of course, perform the whole; and when we look at the labours of this faithful servant, the many toilsome jobs that fall to his lot, it will readily be perceived that suc cess involves a new system of things - a complete revo lution in the routine of British agriculture. There will be no difficulty, however, experienced here by the pioneering genius of invention, so long as it is an easy matter sending old systems up the chimney and bringing successful new ones in at the door. Probably little short of half the number of ploughs in the king dom, for example, are only fit for firewood while horses, however faithful drudges they may be, are very expensive machinery to the farmer, much more so than is generally imagined, so that few regrets will be expressed in parting with both, the moment something better is found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
