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Book of the Farm

by: Stephens, Henry; Langlands, Alex

Book of the Farm

by: Stephens, Henry; Langlands, Alex

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9781906388911
ISBN 10:
1906388911
Edition: CONCISE
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 03/01/2011
Publisher: Batsford

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This indispensable 19th-century reference, referred to by the historians working on the BBC seriesVictorian Farm, is now fully revised by Alex Langlands, who starred on the program. It covers the complete farming year, from sheep shearing to harvesting, and includes advice on practical farm skills, equipment, and rural life, along with illustrations and poetry from the original edition.

Introduction	p. 6
The Persons who Labour on the Farm	p. 18
Winter	p. 24
Introduction	p. 26
Soils and subsoils	p. 28
Planting of thorn hedges	p. 31
The plough	p. 34
Draining	p. 42
Yoking and harnessing the plough, and swing trees	p. 45
Drawing and storing turnips, cabbage, carrots and parships	p. 50
Driving and slaughtering sheep	p. 60
Rearing and feeding cattle on turnips in winter	p. 68
Driving and slaughtering cattle	p. 72
Treatment of farm horses in winter	p. 78
Fattening, driving and slaughtering swine	p. 82
The treatment of fowl in winter	p. 86
Thrashing and winnowing grain, and the thrashing machine	p. 92
Straw	p. 102
The forming of dunghills	p. 104
Spring	p. 106
Introduction	p. 108
Cows calving, and calves	p. 110
Sowing spring wheat	p. 118
Sowing oat seed	p. 124
Sowing barley seed	p. 126
Seed germination	p. 127
Sowing grass seed	p. 130
Sowing flax and hemp	p. 134
Sowing beans	p. 136
Switching, pruning and water tabling thorn hedges	p. 139
The lambing of ewes	p. 146
Training and working the shepherd's dog	p. 154
Turning dunghills and composts	p. 158
Planting potatoes	p. 162
Breaking in young draught horses	p. 168
Sows farrowing or littering	p. 172
The hatching of fowls	p. 176
Summer	p. 186
Introduction	p. 188
Sowing turnips, mangelwurzel, rape, carrots and parships	p. 190
Clearning stones, repairing fences, and the proper construction of field gates	p. 198
Weaning calves and bulls, and grazing cattle till winter	p. 203
Sheep washing, sheep shearing and weaning lambs	p. 212
Making butter and cheese	p. 222
Weeding corn, green crops, pastures and hedges, and casualities to plants	p. 234
Haymaking	p. 236
Summer following and liming the soil	p. 246
Building stone dykes	p. 249
Autumn	p. 252
Introduction	p. 254
Pulling, steeping and drying flax and hemp	p. 256
Harvesting rye, wheat, barley, oats, beans and pease	p. 259
Carrying in and stacking wheat, barley, oats, beans and pease	p. 272
Drafting ewes and gimmers, tupping ewes, and bathing and dipping sheep	p. 280
Lifting and pitting potatoes	p. 285
Sowing autumn wheat	p. 290
Agricultural wheel carriages	p. 294
Eggs	p. 298
Conclusion	p. 300
Index	p. 301
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Book of the Farm

Book of the Farm

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1906388911

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