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Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro

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Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro

Marcus Porcius, 235 BCE-150 BCE, Varro, Marcus Terentius, 117 BCE-28 BCE and Fairfax Harrison Cato

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Two Roman statesmen wrote down how to run a working farm, and their advice outlived the empire. This volume brings together Cato's De Agricultura and Varro's three books on farming: livestock, crops, tools, and the management of an estate. The oldest practical agriculture in the Western tradition, plain and shrewd. Read the founders of the how-to.

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33 chapters

  1. 1ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5VARRO'S RERUM RUSTICARUM LIBRI TRES
  6. 6BOOK I
  7. 7CHAPTER
  8. 8BOOK II
  9. 9BOOK III
  10. 10ROMAN FARM MANAGEMENT NOTE UPON THE ROMAN AGRONOMISTS
  11. 11NOTE ON THE OBLIGATION OF VIRGIL TO VARRO
  12. 12CATO'S DE AGRICULTURA
  13. 13VARRO'S RERUM RUSTICARUM
  14. 14BOOK I
  15. 15I
  16. 161° CONCERNING THE FARM ITSELF
  17. 172° CONCERNING THE EQUIPMENT OF A FARM
  18. 183° CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF A FARM

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