WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING:

A SERIES OF
BRIEF AND PLAIN EXPOSITIONS
OF
PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE
AS AN ART BASED UPON SCIENCE:





By

HORACE GREELEY.






"I know
That where the spade is deepest driven,
The best fruits grow."

John G. Whittier.






NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION.
1871.





Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
HORACE GREELEY,
at the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.





TO

THE MAN OF OUR AGE,

WHO SHALL MAKE THE FIRST PLOW PROPELLED BY

STEAM,

OR OTHER MECHANICAL POWER, WHEREBY NOT LESS THAN

TEN ACRES PER DAY

SHALL BE THOROUGHLY PULVERIZED TO A

DEPTH OF TWO FEET,

AT A COST OF NOT MORE THAN TWO DOLLARS PER ACRE,

THIS WORK IS ADMIRINGLY DEDICATED BY

                            THE AUTHOR.




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CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS.

  PAGE
I.Will Farming Pay?13
II.Good and Bad Husbandry18
III.Where to Farm23
IV.Preparing to Farm29
V.Buying a Farm34
VI.Laying off a Farm; Pasturing39
VII.Trees; Woodlands; Forests44
VIII.Growing Timber; Tree-Planting49
IX.Planting and Growing Trees56
X.Draining; My Own62
XI.Draining Generally69
XII.Irrigation; Means and Ends74
XIII.Possibilities of Irrigation...

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