Making the Farm Pay (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Bowsfield, C. C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330874277 ISBN 13 : 9781330874271

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Turn your small farm into steady income with practical, market-savvy ideas.

This guide offers doable strategies for diversifying crops, adding novel products, and earning more from every acre. It blends cultivation know-how with real-world examples to help farmers and their families profit from what they grow.

From choosing productive crops to timing plantings and marketing fresh goods, the book focuses on practical steps that fit small-scale farming. It highlights opportunities like specialty vegetables, ready-market crops, and easy-to-store produce that can boost seasonal income. Clear, no-nonsense guidance aims to help readers think creatively about what to grow and how to sell it.

• Identify profitable crops and product ideas that fit a small farm’s resources and markets.
• Learn simple cultivation tips, planting dates, and maintenance that maximize yield and quality.
• Explore examples of novelties and value-added opportunities that can command better prices.
• Understand practical marketing and basic farm-management concepts to improve earnings.

Ideal for readers of practical farming guides seeking concrete, proven ways to boost farm income with smart planning and diversified production.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was first published five years ago to advance the principles of intensive farming and to aid in the betterment of rural life. It has been widely read and is performing its mission, biit the time has now come for revising the chaptersv which relate to commodity prices or acreage earnings, and for emphasizing the wisdom of land ownership, an improved system of farming and better methods of marketing. Agricultural conditions which have arisen as a result of the world war have also been considered in this revision. In recasting the text pertaining to these and other subjects, it is a pleasure to sky that the whole agricultural situation is encouraging; that farm profits are unparalleled in history and are likely to remaih on a high level; that land ownership is yearly becoming more desirable, and that thousands of city people are turning to the soil in the belief that it offers security and independence as well as numerous domestic and social advantages. Some incidents will illustrate how this book is serving the public. The New York City librarian on one occasion reported that Making the Farm Pay was one of the six most called for nonfiction works. This shows how city people are studying agriculture. The book is much used in other libraries and is widely circulated outside of the United States, having been translated into several languages., When a great educational society wished to know which was the best book on intensive farmii to recommend for school use i put the question to twelve editors of agricultural journals. A majority of these gentlemen replied that Bowsfield sbook, Makirig the Farm Pay, had this distinction.
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Excerpt from Making the Farm Pay

Modern farming, as the author views the subject, requires varied information as well as unflagging zeal and industry. It needs the application of commercial ideas. Real success in agriculture can only be attained by keeping up with changing conditions and developing a well-balanced business programme to go with the tilling of the soil.

The average land owner, or the old-fashioned farmer, as he is sometimes referred to, has a great deal of practical knowledge, and yet is deficient in some of the most salient requirements. He may know how to produce a good crop and not know how to sell it to the best advantage. No citizen surpasses him in the skill and industry with which he performs his labor, but in many cases his time is frittered away with the least profitable of products, while he overlooks opportunities to meet a constant market demand for articles which return large profits.

Worse than this, he follows a method which turns agricultural work into drudgery, and his sons and daughters forsake the farm home as soon as they are old enough to assert a little independence. At this point the greatest failures are to be recorded. A situation has developed as a result of these existing conditions in the country which is a serious menace to American society.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330874277
• ISBN 13: 9781330874271
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 319
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