CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Prefaces ....... vii 



Introduction 



- Life and Works of Columella . . xiii 



Manuscripts and Editions . . . xx 



Bibliography ..... xxvii 



SiGLA ....... xxxiii 



Book I . . . . . . .2 



Preface — Writers on Husbandry — Rules for the 

 Husbandman — Situation and Quality of Land — 

 Water — Farm Buildings— Master and Tenant — 

 Farm Overseer, Herdsmen, Shepherds. 



Book II 104 



Kinds of Land — Ditching and Draining — Tests 

 of Soil — Ploughing — Care of Oxen in Ploughing — 

 Seasons for Cultivation — Manuring — Grains — 

 Seasons for Sowing — Quantity of Seed Required — 

 Sowing of Legumes, Flax, Hemp, Turnips — Fodder 

 Crops — Cultivation of Grains and Legumes — Num- 

 ber of Labourers Required — Quahties of Various 

 Manures — Times for Manuring — Care of Meadows 

 — Hay — Reaping and Threshing — Precepts for the 

 Husbandman on Hohdays. 



