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Crops and livestock, hardcover by macdonald, james, isbn 1849025401, isbn 9781849025409, like new used, free shipping in the us. The book follows the seasons of the farming year, starting in winter and working round to the end of autumn. His multivolume book of the farm was a standard text for some seventy years after its first edition of 1844. These influential volumes, first published in 1842, contain stephens detailed descriptions of contemporary farming practices. Author information henry stephens was a 19thcentury farming expert who wrote the original book of the farm, the essential farming manual of the period. Stephens book of the farm by stephens, henry, 1908, w.
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