The American farm book, or, Compend of American agriculture
Subtitle: being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining, irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market
By: by R. L. Allen (author of diseases of "Domestic animals," and editor of "The American agriculturist")
Contributors: Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812; Browne, D. J. (Daniel Jay), 1804-1867
Edition: [Revised edition].
Series: Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Publisher: C. M. Saxton
Published: 1850
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Copyright date: 1849
Subjects: Agriculture; Handbooks, manuals; Corn
Other titles: Compend of American agriculture
Notes: "Illustrated by more than 100 engravings."

"The American farm book was first published two years since, under the title of 'A brief compend of American agriculture.'" -- page [iv].

Includes index.

Publisher's advertisements: [10] pages at end.

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] 1850 [Allen].

With: The hasty-pudding : a poem in three cantos : written at Chamrery, in Savoy, January, 1793 / by Joel Barlow. With A memoir of maize or Indian corn / compiled by D.J. Browne. - New York : C.M. Saxton, [1850].