Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, admits that his practical farming was mostly learned in childhood, then sets out his views from his own experimental farm: whether farming pays, where and how to buy land, laying out pasture, planting timber, draining, manures, crops and the farmer’s life, with notes from the drought of 1870.
An opinionated and readable picture of American agriculture just after the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.