ANCIENT 

 AGRICULTURAL LITERATURE. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



British Writers on the subject Adam Dickson, C. W. Hoskyns . 134 

 Grecian and Carthaginian Agriculture Greek and Punic Authors 140 

 Standard points of a Carthaginian Ox, as settled by Mago, B.C. 



600 . . . .... .144 



Roman Agricultural Writers Cato, Varro, Virgil, Columella, 



Pliny, &c 144 



Agriculture not a progressive Art during eight centuries . . 147 



Roman systems of Farm occupation .... 149 



Farm Buildings and Landlord's Villa .... 154 



Division of Farm Labour; Farm and Household Wages; Food, &c. 156 

 General opinion of Roman agricultural Authors against the profit- 

 ableness of High Farming ; meaning of the term . . 157 

 Management of Pastures and Water Meadows . . . 158 

 Management of arable Land, and course of Cropping . . 161 

 Green Crops for Cattle . . . . . .165 



Turnip Culture ; its estimation ..... 167 



Roman opinions on the exhaustion and improvement of Land by 



certain Crops . . . . . . .167 



Various methods of reaping and harvesting Grain . . . 168 



Notice of Reaping Machines used in Gaul, propelled by Oxen 169. 198 

 Threshing and Winnowing Machines .... 170 



Use of Straw for Fodder and Litter . . . . .170 



Manures; their management, methods, and seasons of applying . 171 

 Lime; its application, mode of burning .... 173 



Marl; great use of in Gaul and Britain, described by Roman 



Authors 175.197 



Enclosures, Fences ....... 175 



Use of Beer and Yeast 176 



Fallows; their treatment ; number, depth, direction, and precision 



ofPloughings 178 



Cato's famous Maxim on the use of the Plough and Dung . 179 



Reprobation of ploughing Land when wet .... 180 

 Numerous forms of Plough in use 180 



