Ten Acres Enough - The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming

William Morris

• Publisher: Courthope Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781408633021
• eBook ISBN: 9781447486800
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Sustainable Agriculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to independent farming, with information on all aspects from selecting a farm to growing strawberries. With a wealth of invaluable information and useful tips, this timeless handbook will be of considerable value to both prospective and existing farmers, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of agricultural literature. 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", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on homesteading.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Preface
• I. City Experiences—Moderate Expectations
• II. Practical Views—Safety of Investments in Land
• III. Resolved to go—Escape from Business—Choosing a Location
• IV. Buying a Farm—A Long Search—Anxiety to sell—Forced to quit
• V. Making a Purchase—First Impressions
• VI. Planting a Peach-orchard—How to preserve Peach-trees
• VII. Planting Raspberries and Strawberries—Tricks of the Nursery
• VIII. Blackberries—A Remarkable Coincidence
• IX. The Garden—Female Management—Comforts and Profits
• X. Cheated in a Cow—A Good and a Bad One—The Saint of the Barnyard
• XI. A Cloud of Weeds—Great Sales of Plants
• XII. Pigs and Poultry—Luck and Ill Luck
• XIII. City and Country Life contrasted
• XIV. Two Acres in Truck—Revolution in Agriculture
• XV. Birds, and the Services they Render
• XVI. Close of my First Year—Its Loss and Gain
• XVII. My Second Year—Trenching the Garden—Strawberry Profits
• XVIII. Raspberries—The Lawtons
• XIX. Liquid Manures—An Illustration
• XX. My Third Year—Liquid Manure—Three Years’ Results
• XXI. A Barnyard Manufactory—Land Enough—Faith in Manure
• XXII. Profits of Fruit-growing—The Trade in Berries
• XXIII. Gentleman-farming—Establishing a Home
• XXIV. Unsuccessful Men—Rebellion not Ruinous to Northern Agriculture
• XXV. Where to Locate—East or West