The Art of Farming: 20 Classic Books on Farm Practices
Classic Wisdom on Soil, Crops, Livestock, and Rural Life Across Cultures and CenturiesBy C. L. Goodrich, T. D. Curtis, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, Waheenee, Alva Agee, Brittain B. Robinson, William Budington Duryee, William Bevan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Joseph Harris, Charles Morton Aikman, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Charles William Burkett, Daniel Harvey Hill, Edward J. Wickson, Marcus Terentius Varro, Marcus Porcius Cato, Deborah Takiff Smith, Horace Greeley, Edmund Morris, C. C. James, Miss Coulton, James H. Stephenson, James H. Maggard
Length128h 37m
About this audiobook
The Art of Farming gathers twenty classic texts into a capacious history of agricultural thought, moving from ancient husbandry to modern experiments in soils, crops, livestock, orchards, and rural economy. Its pages range across practical manuals, scientific instruction, memoir-like observation, and reformist argument, revealing farming as both technical craft and social art. The inclusion of Roman agricultural writing beside accounts attentive to regional practice and household cultivation gives the volume unusual chronological and cultural reach. The contributors form no single school; rather, they represent generations of farmers, agronomists, educators, public writers, and observers of rural life. Classical authorities such as Marcus Terentius Varro and Marcus Porcius Cato establish a durable vocabulary of stewardship and estate management, while later American voices register the changing conditions of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century agriculture: scientific specialization, westward and regional adaptation, and the circulation of agricultural knowledge through print. Waheenee's presence broadens the collection's frame, inviting attention to Indigenous experience and to forms of cultivation often marginalized in canonical farm literature. This volume is recommended to students of environmental history, food systems, rural culture, and literary nonfiction, as well as to practitioners curious about agriculture's intellectual inheritance. Read together, these works offer a richly instructive dialogue among methods, eras, and landscapes, demonstrating why the art of farming has long demanded observation, experiment, memory, and ethical judgment.
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GenreTechnology, Literary Classics
Length128 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Agriculture for Beginners. Revised Edition
26CHAPTER XI ToC
2Agriculture for Beginners. Revised Edition
27CHAPTER XII ToC
3PREFACE
28CHAPTER XIII ToC
4CHAPTER II
29CHAPTER XIV ToC
5CHAPTER IV
30CHAPTER XV ToC
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6CHAPTER VI
31Part II
7CHAPTER VII
32CHAPTER XVII ToC
8CHAPTER VIII
33CHAPTER XVIII ToC
9CHAPTER IX
34CHAPTER XIX ToC
10CHAPTER XI
35CHAPTER XX ToC
11CHAPTER XII
36CHAPTER XXI ToC
12APPENDIX
37CHAPTER XXII ToC
13The First Book of Farming
38CHAPTER XXIII ToC
14PREFACE
39CHAPTER XXIV ToC
15Part I
40CHAPTER XXV ToC
16THE FIRST BOOK OF FARMING
41One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
17CHAPTER II ToC
42Part I. Fruit Growing (pt. 1)
18CHAPTER III ToC
43Part I. Fruit Growing (pt. 2)
19CHAPTER IV ToC
44Part II. Vegetable Growing
20CHAPTER V ToC
45Part III. Grains and Forage Crops
21CHAPTER VI ToC
46Part IV. Soils, Fertilizers and Irrigation (pt. 1)
22CHAPTER VII ToC
47Part IV. Soils, Fertilizers and Irrigation (pt. 2)
23CHAPTER VIII ToC
48Part V. Live Stock and Dairy
24CHAPTER IX ToC
49Part VI. Feeding Farm Animals
25CHAPTER X ToC
50Part VIII. Poultry Keeping
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