Chapter I: Front Matter

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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.

CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS.

PAGE

I. Will Farming Pay? 13

II. Good and Bad Husbandry 18

III. Where to Farm 23

IV. Preparing to Farm 29

V. Buying a Farm 34

VI. Laying off a Farm; Pasturing 39

VII. Trees; Woodlands; Forests 44

VIII. Growing Timber; Tree-Planting. 49

IX. Planting and Growing Trees 56

X. Draining; My Own 62

XI. Draining Generally 69

XII. Irrigation; Means and Ends 74

XIII. Possibilities of Irrigation 79

XIV. Plowing, Deep or Shallow 85

XV. Plowing, Good and Bad 91

XVI. Thorough Tillage 96

XVII. Commercial Fertilizers--Gypsum. 102

XVIII. Alkalis--Salt, Ashes, Lime. 107

XIX. Soils and Fertilizers 112

XX. Bones, Phosphates, Guano 118

XXI. Muck--How to Utilize It 124

XXII. Insects; Birds 129

XXIII. About Tree-Planting 134

XXIV. Fruit-Trees--The Apple 139

XXV. More about Apple-Trees 145

XXVI. Hay and Hay-Making 150

XXVII. Peaches, Pears, Cherries, Grapes 156

XXVIII. Grain-Growing--East and West 162

XXIX. Esculent Roots--Potatoes 170

XXX. Roots--Turnips, Beets, Carrots 178

XXXI. The Farmers' Calling 183