CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



Advice to the beginner on how to gain his experience 

 — Deciding the system of farming to follow — 

 Selecting a farm to learn on . , . . i 



CHAPTER II 



The different crops, their division into forage, cereal 

 and root crops, and why each must be grown on 

 the farm — The relation of crops to the live-stock 

 kept— Meadows and pastures — The arranging 

 of crops in rotations ; why it is done, and how 

 rotations may be altered to meet new arrange- 

 ments adopted in one's farming — The different 

 crops that can be grown for each crop of the 

 rotation, and the reasons why any particular crop 

 should be grown — The catch-cropping system, and 

 how it influences corn-growing on sheep farms . 7 



CHAPTER III 



Notes on the cultivation, manuring and harvesting of 

 the different crops and producing enough of each 

 for the food requirements of the stock — How to 

 proceed if drought is likely to make supplies 

 short — The hay crop, and how to supplement it 

 if a small one — Laying down land to permanent 

 grass ; importance of doing it well, and how the 

 stock-carrying capacity of the farm may be altered 

 accordingly — Manuring pastures and meadows . ig 



CHAPTER IV 



Manures, and what they give to the soil — Available 

 and unavailable plant-food — The different arti- 

 ficial and natural manures and their nature — The 

 relation of dung to artificials ; how the dung should 

 be applied to economise in the use of artificials — 

 Preserving dung and making the most of it — 



