Five Acres and Independence

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FIVE ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE
M.G. Kains
Anyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will get from Maurice Grenville Kains' practical and easy-to-understand discussions a more complete view of what small-scale farming means. Most likely, you, like thousands of others who have read Five Acres and Independence, will come away with specific projects that you can begin, specific plans that you can start to materialize. The farmer in you will begin to appear, bringing you closer to the fulfillment of that dream of independence on a small farm of your own.
Whether you already own a suitable place or whether you are still looking, Five Acres and Independence will help you learn to evaluate land for both its total economic and its specific agricultural possibilities. There are methods of calculating costs of permanent improvements—draining the land, improving soil, planting wind breaks, putting in septic tanks, cellars, irrigation systems, greenhouses, etc.—and methods of... Tovább

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FIVE ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE
M.G. Kains
Anyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will get from Maurice Grenville Kains' practical and easy-to-understand discussions a more complete view of what small-scale farming means. Most likely, you, like thousands of others who have read Five Acres and Independence, will come away with specific projects that you can begin, specific plans that you can start to materialize. The farmer in you will begin to appear, bringing you closer to the fulfillment of that dream of independence on a small farm of your own.
Whether you already own a suitable place or whether you are still looking, Five Acres and Independence will help you learn to evaluate land for both its total economic and its specific agricultural possibilities. There are methods of calculating costs of permanent improvements—draining the land, improving soil, planting wind breaks, putting in septic tanks, cellars, irrigation systems, greenhouses, etc.—and methods of carrying out those improvements. There are suggestions for specific crops—strawberries, grapes, vegetables, orchards, spring, summer and fall crops, transplanting, timing, repairing what already exists—with methods of deciding what is best for your land and purposes, and methods of making each of them pay. There are suggestions of animals for the small-scale farmer—goats, chickens, bees—and means of working them into your overall farm design. And finally there are suggestions for keeping your small farm in top production condition, methods of continually increasing the value of your farm, methods of marketing your produce, methods of accurately investing in improvements, virtually everything a small-scale farmer needs to know to make his venture economically sound.
Some things, of course, have changed since 1940 when M. G. Kains revised Five Acres and Independence. But the basic down-to-earth advice of one of the most prominent men in recent American agriculture, and the methods of farming the small-scale, pre-DDT farm, are still pretty much the same. Much of the information in this book was built on USDA and state farm bureau reports; almost all of it was personally tested by M. G. Kains either on his own farms or on farms of the people who trusted him as an experienced consultant. His book went through more than 30 editions in the first ten years after it was first printed and helped countless small farmers attain their dream; it continues today as an exceptional source for those who want to make their first farming attempt.
Unabridged republication of the second (1940) edition. New introduction by J. E. Oldfield. 95 figures. Appendices. Index, xvi + 397pp. 53^ x Paperbound. Vissza