The romantic and historic background of agriculture and plant study / compiled by Caroline Hubbard Bailey in the Riverside Library Service School.

Abstract

The American farm book; or, Compend of American agriculture; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining, irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market. New York, 1849. Saxton xii&319&48. p. illus. 20 cm. cl.Contains a memoir on Indian corn, compiled by T>. J. Browne under the direction of the American Institute. Contains also The Hasty Pudding; A poem in three cantos, written in Chambray, in Savoy. January, 1793, by Joel Barlow, minister plenipotentiary to France.