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Klappentext A detailed description and guide to best contemporary farming practice, including agriculture, dairying and livestock farming, first published in 1842. Zusammenfassung Henry Stephens (1795–1874) was a farmer and writer on agriculture. These influential volumes, first published in 1842, contain Stephens' detailed guide to the best contemporary farming practice. Arranged by season with copious illustrations, these volumes were considered the standard work on practical agriculture. Volume 1 describes winter farming tasks. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The difficulties which the young farmer has to encounter at the outset of learning practical husbandry; 2. The means of overcoming those difficulties; 3. The kind of information to be found in existent works on agriculture; 4. The construction of 'The Book of the Farm'; 5. The existing methods of learning practical husbandry; 6. The establishment of scientific institutions of practical agriculture; 7. The evils attendant on landowners neglecting to learn practical agriculture; 8. Experimental farms as places for instruction in farming; 9. A few words to young farmers who intend emigrating as agricultural settlers to the colonies; 10. The kind of education best suited to young farmers; 11. The different kinds of farming; 12. Choosing the kind of farming; 13. Selecting a tutor farmer for teaching farming; 14. The pupilage; 15. Dealing with the details of farming; Part I. Winter: 16. The steading or farmstead; 17. The farm-house; 18. The persons who labour the farm; 19. The weather in winter; 20. Climate; 21. Observing and recording facts; 22. Soils and subsoils; 23. Enclosures and shelter; 24. The planting of thorn hedges; 25. The plough; 26. The various modes of ploughing ridges; 27. Draining; 28. Yoking and harnessing the plough, and of swing-trees; 29. Ploughing stubble and lea-ground; 30. Trench and subsoil ploughing, and moor-band pan.
