Thomas Shaw

This text contains a concise guide to keeping livestock on dry land farms, with information on keeping horses, cattle, and sheep. Written in clear, simple language and filled with interesting information and handy tips, this practical guide will greatly appeal to farmers of dry land farms with an interest in keeping animals as a profitable enterprise. It discusses the benefits, drawbacks, feeding, general care, shelter, and much more besides - of...

This antique volume contains a detailed treatise on crop rotation on dry farms. Discussed within this text are such topics as: the importance of rotation in dry areas, methodology, equipment, scientific reasoning, pitfalls, rotation tips, and much more. Although old, most of the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of as much value to the modern farmer as it was to those contemporary with the original publication of this text. The...