ISSUE 101, WHERE TO LOOK, Part 2: Holmes, Southern Farmer & Market Gardener 1842

Francis Holmes, The Southern Farmer & Market Gardener (1842)

North American farmers at the end of the 1700s had departed substantially from the practice of farming in Europe, because the little exploited fertility of the land prompted cultivators to plant the same crops in the same fields with crop rotation and minimal fallowing for generations. The cons…