The Farmer’s Manual: being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees.
Weathersfield; Middletown [Conn.]: Published by the author; Clark & Lyman, Printer, 1821. Duodecimo (17 x 10.5 cm.), [2], 224 pages. Table of contents. Second Edition, originally published in Hartford, by Samuel Goodrich in 1819. An early handbook for the American farmer, with advice on vegetable and fruit gardening, as well as a section on the management of bees. Frederick Butler (1766-1843) extols a balance between the too rapid adaptation of.....