What I know of farming:: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon scienceGreeley, Horace
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What I know of farming:: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science
Greeley, Horace
Agriculture -- United States
I. Labor--Production.
II. Commerce--Exchanges.
III. Capital--Skill--Invention--Intellectual Property.
IV. Money--The Balance of Trade.
V. Paper Money--Interest--Usury.
VI. Slavery--Hired Labor--Proportion--Co-operation.
VII. Monopoly--The Law of Prices--Effect of Duties on Cost.
VIII. Agriculture as affected by Protection--Views of the Fathers.
IX. The State--Its Legitimate Sphere--Powers and Duties--Free Trade
Axioms considered.
X. Protection for Agriculture.
XI. Manufacturers and their Needs.
XII. The Laboring Class--Its Rights, Interests, Duties, and Needs.
XIII. The Interest of Consumers--Iron.
XIV. Protection Illustrated--Sugar.
XV. The Harmony of Interests--The Sugar Industry of France
invigorating other Industries--Beet Sugar on its Triumphal
March.
XVI. American Ship-Building, Shipping, and Foreign Commerce.
XVII. Credit--Its Uses and Abuses--Foreign Indebtedness--Our National
Debt.
XVIII. What has been elucidating what shall be.
XIX. Taxation, Direct and Indirect.
XX. Co-operation.
XXI. Wool and Woolens.
XXII. Immigration.
XXIII. Specific--Ad Valorem--Minimum.
XXIV. Conclusions.
Analytical Appendix.
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Hydraulics & Mechanics
_A descriptive and historical account of Hydraulic and other Machines
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=Pear Culture for Profit.=
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The subject is simply and thoroughly treated under the following heads:
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