American Farm Book: Or, Compend of American Agriculture; Being a Practical Treatise on Soils, Manures, Draining, Irrigat

Richard Allen's 1850 work is a comprehensive introduction to American agriculture for the practical farmer. This volume is bound together with Joel Barlow's famous agricultural poem "The Hasty-Pudding, a poem in Three Cantos" and with "A Memoir on Maize or Indian Corn," compiled by D.J. Browne.