Ten Acres Enough - The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming Book

Contents Include: City Experiences, Moderate Expectations - Practical Views, Safety of Investments in Land - Resolved to Go, escape from Business, Choosing a Location - Buying a Farm - A Long Search - Anxiety to Sell - Forced to Quit - Making a Purchase - First Impressions - Planting a Peach Orchard - How to Preserve Peach Trees - Planting raspberries and Strawberries - Tricks of the Nursery - Blackberries - A Remarkable Coincidence - The Garden - Female management - Comforts and Profits - Cheated in a Cow - A Good and A Bad One - The Saint of the Barnyard - A Cloud of Weeds - Great Sales of Plants - Pigs and Poultry - Luck and Ill Luck - City and Country Life Contrasted - Two Acres in Truck - Revolution in Agriculture - Birds, and the Services they Render - Close of my First Year - Its Loss and gain - My Second Year - Trenching the Garden - Strawberry Profits - Raspberries - The lawtons - Liquid manures - An Illustration - My Third Year - Liquid Manure - Three Years Results - A Barnyard Manufactory - Land Enough - Faith in Manure - Profits of Fruit-growing - The Trade in Berries - Gentleman-Farming - Establishing a Home - Unsuccessful Men - Rebellion not Ruinous to Northern Agriculture - Where to Locate - East or WestRead More