Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The British cultivator and agricultural review
Larding the Lean Earth
Author: Steven StollPublisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466805625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic was founded, was threatened. Steven Stoll's passionate and brilliantly argued book explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between "improvers," who believed in practices that sustained and bettered the soil of existing farms, and "emigrants," who thought it was wiser and more "American" to move westward as the soil gave out. Stoll examines the dozens of journals, from New York to Virginia, that gave voice to the improvers' cause. He also focuses especially on two groups of farmers, in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. He analyzes the similarities and differences in their farming habits in order to illustrate larger regional concerns about the "new husbandry" in free and slave states. Farming has always been the human activity that most disrupts nature, for good or ill. The decisions these early Americans made about how to farm not only expressed their political and social faith, but also influenced American attitudes about the environment for decades to come. Larding the Lean Earth is a signal work of environmental history and an original contribution to the study of antebellum America.
Catalogue of Periodicals Contained in the Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Know Your Farm Machinery
Author: Chris LockwoodPublisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1910456632
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Know Your Farm Machinery follows on from the successful publication of Know Your Tractors, Know Your Combines and Know Your Classic Tractors.This pocket-sized book details 43 types of farm machinery most commonly seen on farms today including ploughs, cultivators, drills, spreaders and balers. A photograph of each machine is included.Chris Lockwood is a Suffolk based freelance agricultural journalist and producer of a long list of farming and farm machinery DVDs. This is his fourth book in the popular Know Your series.
Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany
Author: Peter Lund SimmondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonization
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Simmonds's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany
Author: Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany
Author: The Philippine Agricultural Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Vol. 1-6 contain the Annual report of the Bureau of Agriculture for 1906/07-1912/13.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Forgotten Fruits
Author: Christopher StocksPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409061973
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich heritage of fruit and vegetables. Take Newton Wonder apples, for instance, first discovered around 1870 allegedly growing in the thatch of a Derbyshire pub. Or the humble gooseberry which, among other things, helped Charles Darwin to arrive at his theory of evolution. Not to mention the ubiquitous tomato, introduced to Britain from South America in the sixteenth century but regarded as highly poisonous for hearly 200 years. This is a wonderful piece of social and natural history that will appeal to every gardener and food aficionado.