American farmer's new & universal handbook

American farmer's new & universal handbook or, An improved and complete guide to the treatment of soils; the operations of productive field husbandry; kitchen gardening.. the whole embodying a plain, practical, and comprehensive detail of agricultural economy in all its departments, throughout, the United States and the Canadas is written by practical agriculturists. This American farmers book is published by University of Michigan Library.

This agriculture book covers following illustrations.

• Agricultural Operations- Root blubber mode of operating, European dirt shovel, ridge ploughing, earths and springs, draining clay lands, meadow watering, catch work irrigation and turnip culture, etc.
• Grains, Grasses, Vegetables, herbs, etc : - different kinds of wheat, kinds of barley, the rye plant, oats, Indian corn plant, buckwheat, millet, hemp, flax, tare, kinds of clover, meadow or green grass, ray or rye, orchard grass, the pea plant, morel plant, and pony grass, etc
• Fruits: - early harvest apple, red astrakhan, Baldwin apple, Rambo apple, jun eating apple, early apricot, peach, barberry, the blackberry, black heart cherry, American amber, Isabella grape, Catawba grape, the melon, purple favorite plum, the lemon, lime, olive and the orange.
• Domestic or Farm animals: - explanatory skeleton of the ox, diary native cow, Devon bull, Devon ox, Devon cow, new Leicester cow, merino sheep, china hog, american race horse, Arabian horse, shepherd, Tibet goat, and terrier dog, etc.
• Domestic fowls : - Shanghai, cock, docking fowls, Spanish fowls, ostrich or Cochin-china fowls, Toulouse goose, and Muscovy ducks, etc.
• Rural, structures, operations, etc:- different kinds of drains, flower pot hive, Gilmore bee house, garden seat, fountain for a garden, model of medium sized house, model of a large farm house, model of double cottage structure, model of the Washington bar, model of buel's barn, pig house, improved nest for hens, model of building stone wall, mode of building gates, etc
• Horticultural and floricultural operations: - Plan for a flower garden, weeping willow arbor, grafting the vine, the processes of budding, training the grape vine in a pot, balloon training of the rose, fan training in its first stage, etc.
• Farmer Implements, machines, utensils, etc:- Rounded shovel, square shovel, spade, root puller, bramble hook, ground leveler, field roller, horse drill,
  

Following are the topics covered in this agriculture and farmers book.

1. Soils - their nature and treatment
2. The heavy or field crops
3. The kitchen garden
4. The diary
5. Fruits, fruit trees, vines, etc
6. Domestic or farm animals
7. Poultry, or the various domestic fowls
8. Bees
9. Flowers, ornamental trees, etc
10. Rural architecture
11. Horticultural scientific operations
12. The great diseases of plants
13. Noxious insects

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Dorsett's Treatise on agriculture, in all its various branches, from thirty years' practical experience is written by Folsom Dorsett and published by Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library.

PREFACE (By Author)
The design of this work is to furnish a comprehensive treatise on Agriculture, as deduced from an experience of thirty years cultivating the soil, ten years in Maine, and twenty in Central Illinois, and a residence of ten years in Chicago, where I have been familiar with the quality and condition of the produce of the West, as it has come forward to Chicago for a market. And while I am pleased to say there was much sold for good prices, being of good quality, I regret to say there was more of the medium and poorer qualities, sold, to pay the producer but little or no profit. It is true the elements might have injured some of this produce to lessen the prices.

Under these existing features, as to grades, qualities and condition, the produce coming to market, from the same locality of soils and climate, my mind was drawn to take issue on the subject of the good, medium, and pure culture of the soil,, producing the results I have witnessed on the sale of these products, both animal and vegetable, grown in the West.

After much reflection upon this important subject, and having an inborn desire to see the farmers have more uniformity in their prosperity from their labors, I resolved to write out my views and sentiments, from the stand point of my practical labors on agriculture, and the knowledge by theory, of the physical and chemical laws of animals and plants, with their relations so inseparably existing; and so perfectly harmonious are their transmutations performed by the inscrutable wisdom of an all wise Creator, were these rich bountiful provisions made for the support of His people. And the more faithfully will the farmers bend their minds to learn these great living truths, the more certain will prosperity attend their labors to secure larger rewards for their better husbandry. Under the guiding rule that animals and plants must equally have food from nature's great store house, man being endowed with the highest type of wisdom on earth, is specially required to see that neither shall suffer for great want, while under his immediate care and protection. And all other pursuits of life will be stimulated to higher action, in all their needful labors, so essential to happiness.

In conclusion, I would most respectfully add, that if the principal features laid down in this work, are sought after, and adopted by the farmers, as a rule of action, in the culture of their animals and plants, I feel sanguine to say the results will prove to be less in amount of labor, more in wealth, and a larger degree of health, which are the essential stimulants to elevate humanity to a higher source of happiness. And finally, may the author indulge the hope, that this book may receive a fair and impartial perusal by the farmers of the West, omitting all the imperfections therein contained. Believing it is from the hand that hath striven hard upward through the rugged paths of life, devoted to agriculture, as it was thirty years ago, on the prairies of Illinois, where in many places the Indian trails showed evidence of recent occupation.

With these desultory remarks, I cheerfully submit it in a special manner, to the cultivators of the soil.
By Folsom Dorsett

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13. Home and its Surroundings
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15. Horses
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17. Indian Corn
18. Mules
19. Model Farm
20. Oat Culture
21. Omissions and Items worthy of note
22. Potatoes
23. Pea Culture
24. Poultry-Chickens
25. Turkeys
26. Peach Culture
27. Pear Cultivation
28. Rye Culture
29. Raspberry Culture
30. Sheep Culture
31. Strawberry Culture
32. Sorghum Culture
33. Township Organization
34. Timothy Culture
35. Vegetable and Fruit Garden
36. Wheat Culture

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PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION (By author)
Is the preface to the first edition of" Country Life," I maintained, that, in agriculture, experience must govern theories, and that any treatise on the subject must owe much of its value to the degree in which its rules and principles are based upon the results of experience. Whilst this is true, we must not allow ourselves to become the slaves of experience, which, it may be said, is the constant tendency of farming life. To this day, many men sneer at book-farming as theoretical and unreliable, and resist, as an encroachment on their rights, those theories of cultivation which seem to disagree with the wisdom of the ancients. Nothing would have broken down this feeling and resistance but necessity. When men have a certain result to obtain, and to obtain it must use the labor of men and animals, and supply tools and machines, they are compelled, if the labor is scanty, to try to devise, either methods for getting the result without the labor, or to perform the labor in some different way. If a man's tools and machinery are worse and less profitable than his neighbor's, the fact that the result in dollars and cents is against him will incline him to copy his neighbor. The long war we have passed through has absorbed so much of the available labor of the country, and at the same time increased the value of the products of agricultural labor, that farmers have been compelled to invent either new machines or new crops, and methods of culture. As a consequence, we have made vast improvements in agricultural machinery, particularly in harvesting tools. The mowers and reapers of 1866 are so much better than they were in 1859, that the work of haying and harvesting is reduced from severe to easy work, and a man and boy will now do the work on a farm which formerly required half a dozen men. In Horticulture, new plants and fruits are introduced every year: some, upon trial, are proved to be of little value, and soon disappear, whilst a few become permanent friends and comforts to man. In the cultivation of grapes, there has been a great advance; and not only do we now have very greatly improved varieties, but a thousand cultivate grapes to-day in place of a hundred six years ago. With these new varieties and the widely spreading cultivation, new diseases have come, and some men have suffered so severely, that they have lost heart, and are inclined to abandon the vine; but, fortunately, man is a persevering animal, particularly when eating and drinking are the stimulants to his efforts, and we may rest assured that the grape or grapes will yet be found which will overcome all obstacles, and be equally good for the table and the vineyard. In the Supplement, the subject is extensively treated, and the reader will find there not only the best varieties for different parts of the country, but also the opinions of eminent cultivators as to the causes and cures of the most annoying diseases to which grapes are liable. In the Flower-garden, I have introduced many new plants, as well as new lists of old friends, and have urged strongly the claims of some which I had hitherto neglected.

In the Agricultural division, I have brought together a large number of facts about Merino sheep, and have endeavored to urge farmers generally to do more to derive, by the aid of sheep, the full value from their farms. When we comprehend the real benefits which sheep confer on their owners, it is difficult to understand why so few persons, comparatively, have flocks. The Merino sheep is a proof of what may be done in New England to raise the value of agriculture and stockraising. I have presented in the Ornamental department, somewhat at length, the horticultural capabilities of cities. I do not seek to persuade the reader that the citizen can have the beauty, the wealth, or comfort of the country; but there is undoubtedly a great deal of space wasted in cities, which might be turned to good use, and give both amusement and real enjoyment to those who have only a brick house for a garden. Doubtless the careful reader of "Country Life" has found methods of doing work with which he could not agree, or which seemed to him to be better done in some different manner. To all such let me say, that I never professed to give all the ways of conducting the operations incident to a life in the country, only one way, which I was well assured would give a good result; and if, by disagreeing with me, I have stirred the active minds of men to investigate the subject, and produce newer and better methods than my own, I have certainly conferred a favor on them and all mankind, and may well feel satisfied with the labor and time I have expended. Hoping that the Supplement to this edition may bring the book up to the present time, I leave it once more to make its way through the world, trusting that whoever reads it will find more to approve than condemn.

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TO THE FARMERS AND PLANTERS OF THE UNITED STATES
This work is respectfully dedicated, with the hope that it will add its mite in sustaining and carrying forward the great agricultural improvements of the present day. To agriculture, THE MOST HEALTHFUL, THE MOST USEFUL, THE MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN, rather than to any other, or perhaps, than to all others combined, must we look for the permanent strength, the glory and happiness of our great Republic.
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This agriculture and farmer's book covers the topics such as Climate, Land Shape, Water Supply, Farm Roads, Trees, Farm Buildings, Soil, Completing the Landscape, Fertilisers. and Fertility, Soil Conservation, Design and Construction of a Farm Dam, Drains and Irrigation, the Choice of Farm Dam Designs and Rewards of the Balanced Landscape, etc

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Walks and talks of an American farmer in England is very relevant book telling you the experience of farmers in America and in England. This agriculture and farmers book is written by Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles C. McLaughlin. This books consists of 530 pages covering the outlook of an american farmer who reached England. This agriculture book clearly tells you American's vivid impressions of midnineteenth century and is published by University of Massachusetts Press.

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My land, my home, my Wisconsin : the epic story of the Wisconsin farm and farm family from settlement days to the present is the book written by Ahlgreen, Henry L.

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Agriculture Fact Book 2001-2002 is provided electronically by United States Department of Agriculture. This agriculture fact book covers selected issues in American Agriculture, profiling food consumption in America, American farms, rural america's economic overivew, U.S Department of Agriculture information, USDA Rural developments, Farm and foreign Agriculture Services, Food nutrition and Consumer Services, Food Safety, Natural Resource and Development, Agricultural Research, Education and Economics, Marketing and Regulatory programs, etc.

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The Farmer's Land-measurer; Or Pocket Companion

The Farmer's Land-measurer; Or Pocket Companion: Showing At One View the Content of Any Piece of Land From Dimensions Taken in Yards With a Set of Use is written by James Pedder. This agriculture book is published by Kessinger Publishing.

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Conservation and development in Northern Thailand

By Jack D. Ives, Sanga Sabhasri and Pisit Voraurai

In the field of natural resources the balance between conservation and development. between economic pressures and environmental integrity, is notoriously difficult to achieve In rural areas of developing countries the tremendous lack of knowledge and scarcity of trained manpower makes this balance much more difficult. The Programme on the Use and Management of Natural Resources (NRP), one of three proarammes at the United Nations University, has these questions as a central focus. Using the tools of scholarship-research. advanced training, and the dissemination of information-the NRP has been engaged since early 1977 in setting up networks of research and training activities to stimulate provident and ecologically sound use of renewable natural resources. Concentrating its efforts in developing countries, where the problems are most severe and the need is greatest, the NRP is trying to help free these countries from their dependence on scientific expertise imported from developed countries that does not necessarily match their specific developmental or environmental situation. Through its networks the NRP is trying to catalyse scholarly collaboration and the exchange of experience on a ''South to South'' basis.

Following a UNU evaluation mission and several staff visits, Chiang Mai University was designated an associated institution of the UN University for work in the projects on agro forestry and highland-lowland interactive systems.

A major step in the formulation and initiation of activities was the convening of a workshop to discuss these topics in relation to Northern Thailand. This workshop, attended by numerous Thai and outside experts in fields as diverse as anthropology and forestry, geomorphology and agriculture, was held 1317 November 1978 in Chiang Mai, with Dr. Pisit Voraurai as the local organizer. During the workshop, 15 major papers were presented, an excursion was made to the Huai Thung Choa field station in the mountains 85 km northwest of Chiang Mai, and many formal and informal discussions took place.

The present publication is the proceedings of that Chiang Mai University-UNU workshop. Most of the papers presented are included. together with a summary of the discussions. This is not to be regarded as a comprehensive treatise on the environmental and human sciences and related developmental problems of Northern Thailand. Rather, it is intended as a source document and as a basis for the identification and development of an interdisciplinary research programme that should evolve over the next five to ten years. Furthermore, the UNU component is regarded only as a part of a much larger whole. Specifically, it is hoped that these proceedings will assist in achieving a wider collaboration among the many individuals and agencies working in Northern Thailand; facilitate the development of an applied research model that can be adapted for use in comparable environments over a much wider area, including Southeast Asia, appropriate parts of Africa, and Latin America; and help stimulate an increasing exchange of knowledge and experience for mutual benefit as the UNU network of associated institutions continues to expand.

Many individuals and agencies gave their time unsparingly to assist the workshop organizers: the host institution, Chiang Mai University. from its Rector. Professor Pradit Wichaiyadit. down to the many students and junior staff who performed myriad essential courtesies; the staff of the Royal Department of Forestry, Thailand; H.R.H. Prince Bhisatej Rajani and staff of the Royal Hill Tribe Development Project; the staff of the National Research Council of Thailand and of the ThaiAustralian Agricultural Project. We were privileged to be welcomed to Chiang Mai by H.E. Professor Sanya Dharmasakti, Chairman of the Privy Council of Thailand, and by Mr. Pratheung Sitthipongs. Governor of Chiang Mai Province.

Pauline A. Ives served as technical editor of these workshop proceedings. and Laura Koch, Jane Perry, and Linda Shook of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, typed and retyped much of the original manuscript.

The editors would like to express a special debt of gratitude on behalf of both the United Nations University and Chiang Mai University to our colleagues who have devoted so much time to manuscript preparation, presentation, discussion, and advice. without which this publication would never have been possible.

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