THE 



ECONOMY OF FARMING, 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF 



J. BURGER, 



PEOF. OF AGRICULTURE, AND MEMBER OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF VIENNA, 

 MUNICH, BRUNN, GOERZ, GRAZ, KLAGENFURT, LAIBACH, PRAGUE, &;c. ; 



WITH MANY ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM THE GERMAN OF 



THAER, VEIT, SCHWERTZ, SPRENGEL, PETRI, &c. 



AND A COPIOUS INDEX I 



E. GOODRICH SMITH 



" The golden middle path, which leads the inquiring, active farmer through the midst 

 of fields of grain and fodder, and cultivated pastures, to the true proportion of the fruits 

 necessary to be cultivated, and teaches him the need of the requisite beasts to be kept, is, 

 therefore, always the best ; by which we may reach, if not hastily and easily — as we have 

 often dreamed in our youth — yet finally, though laboriously, but with profit, the end 

 proposed, in the nearest degree in proportion to our extent of ground, and the power 

 employed on it." — A. K. Block. 



NEW YORK: 



LEAVITT & TROW, 194 BROADWAY. 



BOSTON : CROCKER & BREWSTER. 



PHILADELPHIA: GEO. S. APPLETON. 



1843. 



