Online Agriculture Ebooks & Book Reviews: 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.

Soils - their nature and treatment
The heavy or field crops
The kitchen garden
The diary
Fruits, fruit trees, vines, etc
Domestic or farm animals
Poultry, or the various domestic fowls
Bees
Flowers, ornamental trees, etc
Rural architecture
Horticultural scientific operations
The great diseases of plants
Noxious insects

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