- 1Epigraph — Dedication
- 2Preface
- 3I — Will Farming Pay?
- 4II — Good and Bad Husbandry
- 5III — Where to Farm
- 6IV — Preparing to Farm
- 7V — Buying a Farm
- 8VI — Laying Off a Farm — Pasturing
- 9VII — Trees — Woodland — Forests
- 10VIII — Growing Timber — Tree-Planting
- 11IX — Planting and Growing Trees
- 12X — Draining — My Own
- 13XI — Draining Generally
- 14XII — Irrigation — Means and Ends
- 15XIII — The Possibilities of Irrigation
- 16XIV — Plowing — Deep or Shallow
- 17XV — Plowing — Good and Bad
- 18XVI — Thorough Tillage
- 19XVII — Commercial Fertilizers — Gypsum
- 20XVIII — Alkalis... Salt — Ashes — Lime
- 21XIX — Soils and Fertilizers
- 22XX — Bones — Phosphates — Guano
- 23XXI — Muck — How to Utilize It
- 24XXII — Insects — Birds
- 25XXIII — About Tree-Planting
- 26XXIV — Fruit-Trees — The Apple
- 27XXV — More About Apple-Trees
- 28XXVI — Hay and Hay-Making
- 29XXVII — Peaches — Pears — Cherries — Grapes
- 30XXVIII — Grain-Growing — East and West
- 31XXIX — Esculent Roots — Potatoes
- 32XXX — Roots — Turnips — Beets — Carrots
- 33XXXI — The Farmer’s Calling
- 34XXXII — A Lesson of To-Day
- 35XXXIII — Intellect in Agriculture
- 36XXXIV — Sheep and Wool-Growing
- 37XXXV — Accounts in Farming
- 38XXXVI — Stone on a Farm
- 39XXXVII — Fences and Fencing
- 40XXXVIII — Agricultural Exhibitions
- 41XXXIX — Science in Agriculture
- 42XL — Farm Implements
- 43XLI — Steam in Agriculture
- 44XLII — Co-Operation in Farming
- 45XLIII — Farmers’ Clubs
- 46XLIV — Western Irrigation
- 47XLV — Sewage
- 48XLVI — More of Irrigation
- 49XLVII — Undeveloped Sources of Power
- 50XLVIII — Rural Depopulation
- 51XLIX — Large and Small Farms
- 52L — Exchange and Distribution
- 53Li — Winter Work
- 54LII — Summing Up
What I Know of Farming
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