The gentleman farmer : being an attempt to improve agriculture by subjecting it to the test of rational principles / Henry Home, Lord Kames.
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) gained recognition as an advocate at the Scottish bar, and subsequently as a judge whose writings on the philosophy, theory and practice of the law were hugely influential. However, he also took great interest in agriculture, and his wife's inheritance of a la...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Epistle
- Preface
- Part I. Practice of agriculture. 1. Instruments of husbandry ; 2. Farm cattle and carriages ; 3. Farm-offices ; 4. Preparing land for cropping ; 5. Culture of plants for food ; 6. Culture of grass ; 7. Rotation of crops ; 8. Reaping and storing corn and hay crops ; 9. Feeding farm-cattle ; 10. Culture of other plants proper for a farm ; 11. Manures ; 12. Fences ; 13. The proper size of a farm ; 14. What a corn-farm ought to yield in rent
- Part II. Theory of agriculture. 1. Preliminary observations ; 2. Food of plants, and fertility of soil ; 3. Means of fertilizing soils
- Appendices.