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crop of 753.3 million pounds of cotton. Russia
leads the world in the piodnotion of rye, oats,
and barley, and in the yield of potatoes it is
surpassed by Germany only. Australia, the
Argentine Republic, Russia, and the United States
are the chief wool growing countries. Outside of
the United States most of the cotton is grown in
India, China, and Egypt. Tobacco is an important
crop in Austria-Hungary, Mexico, Japan,
Germany, and France.
Bibliography. Only a few works on agriculture
have come down to us from ancient literature.
Among these the most important are:
Hesiod, Works and Days; Cato, De Re Rustica;
Varro, Rerum Rusticarum, Libri III.: Vergil,
Georgics; Pliny, Natural History; Palladius, De
Re Rustica. The modern literature begins with
P. Crescenzi, a Bolognese, who at the beginning
of the fourteenth century wrote his Ruralium
Commodorum, Libri XII. The first English
book on agriculture is Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's
The Boke of Husbandrie (London, 1523).
Between that time and the year 1800 some 200
British authors wrote on agricultural topics.
Among their works are Tusser, Five Hundred
Points of Good Husbandry, etc. (1573); J. Mortimer,
The Whole Art of Husbandry (London,
1807); J. Tull, Horse-hoeing Husbandry (London,
1829); A. Young, Annals of Agriculture (London,
1813). In the United States few books
on agriculture were published prior to 1800.
Among these may be mentioned J. Eliot,
Agricultural Essays, (Boston, 1760); S. Deane,
New England Farmer, or Georgical Dictionary
(Portland, 1797); B. Vaughan, Rural Socrates
(Hallowell, 1800). During the nineteenth
century the number of English and American
works on agriculture greatly increased, and
not only did the general treatises become
more thorough and scientific, but also a large
amount of valuable literature on special
subjects was published. Only a few books of more
seneral importance will be mentioned here: J.
C. Loudon, Eneyclopædia of Agriculture (London,
1825); J. C. Morton, A Cyclopædia of
Agriculture (London, 1850-52); Handbook of the
Farm (London, 1868); J. Periam, The American
Encyclopædia of Agriculture (Chicago, 1881);
L. H. Bailey, Rural Science Series (New York,
1895-1901); Bailey and Miller, Encyclopædia of
American Horticulture, 4 volumes (New York,
1900-02); J. E. T. Rogers, History of Agriculture
and Prices in England (Oxford, 1882); R. E.
Prothero, The Pioneers and Progress of English
Farming (London, 1880); H. Stephens, Book of
the Farm (London, 1855); R. Wallace, Farm
Live Stock of Great Britain (Edinburgh, 1885);
India in 1887 (London, 1888); Farming Industries
of Cape Colony (London, 1890); The Rural
Economy and Agriculture of Australia and West
Zealand (London, 1891); E. B. Voorhees, First
Principles of Aqriculture (Boston, 1896);
Fertilizers (New York, 1898); L. H. Bailey, The
Principles of Agriculture (New York, 1898);
W. P. Brooks, Agriculture (Springfield, Mass.,
1901). Manures: J. Harris, Talks on Manures
(New York, 1878); C. M. Aikman, Manures and
the Principles of Manuring (London, 1899); F.
W. Sempers, Manures: How to Make and How
to Use Them (Philadelphia, 1893). Chemistry
of Agriculture: F. H. Storer, Agriculture in
Some of its Relations to Chemistry (New York,
1897). Farm Crops and Soils: F. H. King, The
Soil, Rural Science Series (New York, 1895);
W. Fream, Rothamsted Experiments in Wheat,
Barley, and Grass Lands (London, 1888); J.
P. Roberts, On the Fertility of the Land, Rural
Science Series (New York, 1897); S. W. Johnson,
How Crops Grow (New York, 1868; London,
1869); How Crops Feed (New York, 1870). Stock
Breeding: M. Miles, Stock Breeding (New York,
1878). Feeding of Animals: H. Stewart,
Shepherd's Manual (New York, 1878); H. P.
Armsby, Manual of Cattle Feeding (New York,
1890); W. A. Henry, Feeds and Feeding
(Madison, Wis., 1898); J. H. Jordon, The Feeding of
Animals (New York and London, 1901).
Dairying: H. Wing, Milk and Its Products,
Rural Science Series (New York, 1895): J. W.
Decker, Cheese Making (Columbus, Ohio, 1900).
Drainage: F. H. King, Irrigation and Drainage,
Rural Science Series (New York, 1899); Physics
