ANTIQUE FARM & FRONTIER LIFE GUIDE WESTERN EMIGRANT PIONEER FARMING & COOKBOOK

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ANTIQUE FARM & FRONTIER LIFE GUIDE WESTERN EMIGRANT PIONEER FARMING & COOKBOOK:
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THE FARMER\'S EVERY-DAY BOOK

Containing Practical How-To Information and Advice on All Aspects of Rural Farming and Husbandry

Including 500 Recipes, Cures and Instructions for Food, Health, Horse-Care and Farm Management.

PUBLISHED IN 1857.

THE FARMER\'S EVERY-DAY BOOK; Or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country: With the Popular Elements of Practical and Theoretical Agriculture, and Twelve Hundred Laconics and Apothegms Relating to Ethics, Religion and General Literature; Also, Five Hundred Receipts on Hygeian, Domestic and Rural Economy. By the Rev. John L. Blake, D.D. FIRST EDITION. Published in 1857 by Derby, Miller and Company, Auburn NY. 9\" x 6\" cloth binding with gilt decoration on spine. Illustrated with engravings. 654 pages.

Condition: Good antique condition. This is a scarce and valuable volume (see the one I sold last year at No. 350844275095). Exterior as shown in photo. Recently rebacked with new cloth spine and original spine decoration laid over. Binding is firm. Text block secure. The only real flaw is that is has moisture blemishing at the top and bottom of the pages, not very noticeable on the text pages but appears darker on the plates and in one or two instances encroaches on the illustration. No torn, loose or missing pages. No musty smells.

NOTE: I recently acquired a wonderful collection of antique cookbooks, receipts books, etc. Some I have offered on already. Some are currently at sale right now, while still others are waiting to be saleed in coming days and weeks. If you love to collect these old volumes of cookery, \"domestic economy,\" formularies, etc., I urge you to visit my sales frequently to see what each new day brings. Thank you for your interest in my books.

Description:

This book was written as a daily or “every-day” guide for established farmers and pioneers who planned to become farmers once they arrived at their new frontier homes.

This amazing volume contains advice on matters practical and personal, lots of how-to information regarding husbandry, crops and agriculture, dire warnings of pitfalls awaiting farmers who are not industrious and sober, essays on the joys and pleasures of rural life and perhaps best of all, 500 cooking recipes, folk cures/remedies for man and horse, and other “receipts” for rural life.

The illustrations in the book are wonderful -- charming, detailed engravings printed on pink paper. They illustrate a variety of rural scenes.

This book gives rare insight into what life was like on a rural farm 157 years ago. Think about it -- this book pre-dates the Civil War. It was published at a time when America was still growing by leaps and bounds and the future seemed full of promise, without a hint of the civil strife that afflicted the land less than ten years later.

In order to give you the most accurate description of this wonderful book, I have provided some helpful details below. The book wasn\'t published with a Table of Contents, so I have taken it upon myself to create one, including a detailed summary of all the recipes and cures contained in the text. At the bottom of this page, you can see some of the illustrations from the book.

All of this is provided to help you make an informed decision when offerding. I hope you\'ll take a few moments to have a look.

CONTENTS ARE:

Part One:

Preface * Design and Plan of the Work

(1) Popular Errors About Agriculture

(2) First Lessons in Agriculture

(3) The Education of Farmers

(4) Colleges for the Sons of Farmers

(5) The Wives of Farmers

(6) Advice to the Sons of Farmers

(7) Advice to the Daughters of Farmers

(8) Agricultural Wealth

(9) Political Hints for Farmers

(10) Hints on the Preservation of Health

(11) Liability of Laborers to Intemperance

(12) The Drunkard\'s Funeral

(13) Religious Influences in Rural Life

(14) Means for Mental Improvement

(15) Hints on the Benefits of Bathing

(16) The Art of Swimming

(17) Neatness in Farming

(18) The Position of the American Farmer

(19) Amusements in the Country

(20) Tool Shop for Farmers

(21) Gardens for Farmers

(22) Toils and Pleasures of Rural Life

(23) How to Live Prettily in the Country

(24) Provision Against Danger From Fire

(25) Caution Against Contracting Debts

(26) Agriculture Favorable to Local Attachments

(27) Social Excrescences in the County

(28) How Can a Farmer Become Rich?

(29) Hints Respecting Hired Laborers

(30) A Fall Thanksgiving in the Country

(31) Provision for the Poor in the Country

(32) Cemeteries in the Country

(33) The Western Pioneers

(34) Advice to Western Emigrants

(35) Western Elements of Wealth

(36) Vegetable Physiology

(37) Elementary Food of Vegetables

(38) External Signs and Variety of Soils

(39) Chemical Analysis of Soils

(40) Soils Known by their Productions

(41) Means for Improving the Soils

(42) Animal and Vegetable Manures

(43) Mineral Manures

(44) Rotation of Crops

(45) Use of the Roller in Agriculture

(46) Use of a Subsoil Plough

(47) Indian Corn, or Maize

(48) Physiology and Culture of Wheat

(49) Rye, Its Culture and Use

(50) Culture and Use of Oats

(51) Culture of Buckwheat

(52) Culture and History of Cotton

(53) Culture and History of Tobacco

(54) Culture and History of Sugar

(55) History and Culture of Grapes

(56) Cultivation of abcxs the Pea

(57) History, Culture and Use of Beans

(58) Culture of Broom-Corn

(59) Cultivation of Hops

(60) Culture and Use of the Potato

(61) Culture and Use of Cabbage

(62) Culture and Use of Cauliflower

(63) Culture and Use of Turnips

(64) Culture and Use of Beets

(65) Culture and Use of the Parsnip

(66) Culture and Use of Celery

(67) Culture of the Strawberry

(68) Currants and Gooseberries

(69) The Use, Beauty and Growth of Trees

(70) Post and Rail Fences

(71) Profits of the Cow

(72) Swine in the United States

(73) Oxen for Farm Teams

(74) Wagons and Carts for Farms

(75) The More Useful Varieties of the Dog

(76) India Rubber Goods For Farmers

Part Two - Miscellanies; or, Recipes, Hints and Cures:

Miscellanies in Hygeian Economy; Including Receipts, Hints, and Laconics on the Subject of Preserving Health and Restoring It, Under the Ordinary Circumstances of Human Life:

The Art of Health
Health promoted by labor and exercise
Great value of health
Exercise after meals
Hints about food
Importance of exercise
A few words about diet
Every day bathing
On the use of butter
On the use of eggs
On the use of veal
On the use of fish
On the use of beef
On the use of fowls
Content the stomach
How the taste may be vitiated
Comparative facility of digestion
Medicine as well as food
How to prevent cold feet in bed
The clothing favorable to health
Dr. Franklin\'s direction for sleeping well
Healthy location of houses
How the air is rendered impure
How sick rooms are to be kept pure
How to improve the air of a heated room
How to facilitate sleep
How to prevent the nails growing into the toe
A prescription to prevent the lock-jaw
Cleansing the teeth
Preservation of the teeth
How to remove scurvy from the teeth
The teething of children
A prescription for the cure of cancer
Another prescription for cancer
Tincture for diseased gums
How to make bread poultice
Treatment of the measles
How to make a poultice of hops
How to make an Indian meal poultice
How to make an alum poultice
How to make mustard poultice
How to make alum whey
Charcoal poultice
Charcoal powder as a laxative
How to preserve the eyes
Recipe for weak eyes
Precautions against consumption
Remedy for having drank too much cold water
How to take sa1ts, senna and manna
Remedy for chapped hands
Hints to the baldheaded
Cure for the piles
Recipe for white swelling and felons
A prescription for the cure of bronchitis
A recipe for the cure of a cold
A prescription for the cure of a cough
Another recipe for a cold or cough
Another remedy for the cure of colds
An application for hoarseness
To prevent colds in children
A simple cure for the croup
For croup or quinsy
Treatment for intense cold
Treatment of frostbitten parts
Horseradish a cure for hoarseness
Liquorice syrup for cough
How to make paregoric
Precaution against corpulence
How to cure sore throat
To cleanse the teeth and improve the breath
Another cure for a sore throat
How to prevent chillblains
Diuretic infusion
A word to hypochondriacs and delicate women
Remedy for the sting of the bee
How to cure poison
Pills for shortness of breath
Direction for medicinal herbs
How to cure burns and scalds
Another prescription for a burn
Another prescription for burns
Salve to cure bruises and sores
An ointment for pain in the side
An excellent healing salve
A remedy for burns and scalds
Prescription for small cuts and wounds
A valuable salve for wounds
An excellent liniment for wounds
Volatile liniment
How to cure a wen
Prescription for rheumatism
How to make opodeldoc
Medicinal use of mustard seed
How to make Indian gruel for invalids
Good drinks to be used in fevers
How to prepare arrow-root
Barley-water
The headache
A cure for earache
Directions for treatment of corns
A cure for the ague and fever
Recipe for the cure of diarrhea
Cure for cholera morbus
Prescription for the toothache
Prescription for sick headache
Another prescription for toothache
How to remove warts
Best mode of giving medicine in infants
Another application for the cure of corns
Another recipe for warts and corns
Walnuts used as cathartics
Doherty\'s description
Recipe for the cure of felon
How to make sticking plaster
To remove motes or dust from the eye
Cure for dysentery
How to make beef tea
Prescriptions for the cure of asthma
A remedy for the asthma
Scald head in infants
Remedy for the scurvy
A simple medicine for dyspepsia
Dyspepsia cured without medicine
Recipe for the cure of quinsy
A simple remedy for whooping cough
A good plaster for a cough
Use of the lungs

Miscellanies in Domestic Economy; Including Receipts, Apothegms, Laconics, Maxims, Counsels and Experiments of a Well-Instructed Housewife, relating to her Various Duties:

Food:

How to make good coffee
How to make barley coffee
Carrots in the coffee
Recipe for drying apples
How to make good sausages
How to increase the quantity of cream
Dutch method of making butter
A word of advice to dairy women
Clarified butter
To purify rancid butter
How to make salt butter fresh
To remove the taste of turnips from milk and butter
To prevent froth in churning on cream
Method of salting butter
Bread and cake without saleratus
How to make sago bread
How to make a nice corn bread
How to make rice bread
How to make Boston Brown Bread
How to make a rich corn bread
The tincture of roses
The art of making dipped candies
An improved method of making candles
How to save expense in clothing
How to make fruit gingerbread
How to make molasses gingerbread
How to make sugar gingerbread
Value of the tomato
Directions for tomato catsup
How to preserve tomatoes
How to make loaf cake
How to make plum cake
How to make wedding cake
How to make icing or frosting for cake
How to make dough-nuts or nut cakes
How to make buckwheat cakes
How to make fritters
How to make griddle cakes
How to make rice sponge cake
How to make Washington Cake
How to make drop cake
How to make sponge cakes
How to make seed cakes
Directions for tea cakes
Buckwheat cakes
How to make country cream cakes
Directions for breakfast Indian cakes
How to make nice country muffins for tea
How to preserve green currants and gooseberries
How to preserve pumpkins
How to preserve apples
How to preserve grapes
How to preserve peaches
How to make apple jelly
How to make raspberry jam
How to make quince marmalade
An excellent method of preserving pumpkins
How to improve molasses
How to make prime yeast
Another recipe for making yeast
To make corn meal yeast
How to make potato yeast
Directions for the preservation of yeast
How to make sour-crout
Recipe for preparing intestines for sausage
Directions for making wine custard
How to make egg pone
How to make egg cream
Sulphuric acid a substitute for rennet
How to make omelettes
A new method of making jelly
How to make raspberry syrup
New England apple sauce or butter
Method of rendering glass less brittle
Green corn pudding
How to make rice pudding
A cheap rice pudding
Apple rice pudding, very cheap, very good
Direction for a peach pudding
A baked potato pudding
To make hasty pudding
Fried hasty pudding for breakfast
A boiled Indian pudding
The best way to boil green corn
A country apple pudding
Sponge pudding
How to make biscuit puddings
How to make puff puddings
How to make p1ain boiled rice pudding
How to make bread and butter pudding
How to make corn pudding
How to make beet and carrot pies
How to make sugar-beet vinegar
How to make artificial oysters
How to make elder wine
How to make mead
How to make cheap vinegar
How to make cider vinegar
How to make a cheap family wine
How to improve watery potatoes
How to procure green peas in winter
How to make succotash
Directions for popping corn
Another method of popping corn
How to cure pork
How to fry salted pork
How to cure hams as practiced in Virginia
The author\'s method of curing hams
A new way to cure bacon
How to prevent skippers in bacon
How to preserve meat
How to restore tainted meat
How to smoke hams
How to cook parsnips
How to make calves feet jelly
How to know good flour
How to make a substitute for soap
How to make premium cheese
Another recipe for making premium cheese
How to keep the hands soft
How to preserve eggs
Another way to preserve eggs
How to make a plain lemon pudding
How to make sealing wafers
How to relieve the breath from onions
The preservation of cucumbers
How to make peach pickles
How to keep beef fresh
How to pickle cucumbers
How to make spruce beer
Cheap summer beer for farmers
Another recipe for spruce beer
How to cook venison steaks
How to make souse
How to make neetmok pudding
How to dry pears
How to preserve fresh fish
How to make bee\'s wax
How to make Welsh rare-bits
How to make blackberry mush
Directions for making Indian gruel
How to pack butter for long preservation
How to make butter biscuits
Directions for preserving crab apples
To preserve green corn for boiling
Recipe for drying peaches
How to make rhubarb pies

Household:

How to make stair carpets last
How to make soap without boiling
To make cool water without ice
How to wash woolen goods
To make calicoes wash well
To remove spots from leather gloves
Unequal duration of candles
How to prevent the ravages of moths
Fire and water-proof cement
How to drive away cockroaches
How to treat servants
Female modesty
To render boots and shoes water-proof
Blacking for boots and shoes
How to clean black silks
How to take mildew out of linen
How to clean white lace veils
How to remove lime spots
How to restore linen that has long been stained
How to clean kid gloves
Another recipe for cleaning kid gloves
Recipe for washing woolen goods
How to remove spots of ink
How to remove oil or sperm tallow from cloth
How to wash flannels
How to clean knives
Wash-leather under-waistcoats
How to clean pictures How to bleach bee\'s wax
How to give lustre to silver
How to take spots from silks, cotton and linen
To keep a stove bright by two applications a year
Another method for removing grease spots
To remove marks from a table
How to clean brass ornaments
How to mend crockery ware
How to take grease spots from woolen cloth
To make whitewash that will not rub off
Another recipe for whitewashing
Look out for early impressions
Family government
Family literature

Miscellanies in Rural Economy; Including Receipts, Fragments and Laconics upon Many of the Most Important Subjects Daily Occurring in the Management of a Farm:

What can be done on an acre of ground
Milk of London
Evils of improvidence
Dry wood for fuel
Signs of rain
Perfection of nature
Affection for offspring
Longevity of the horse
The horse\'s eye
Remedy for the bot in horses
To prevent balls of snow on horses\' feet
A prescription for the staggers
An application for the mange
Remedy for surfeit in a horse
Remedy for scratches in horses
How to relieve horses from the bite of flies
A remedy for founder in horses
To ascertain the age of a horse
A cure for wind-galls in horses
How to cure a cough in horses
Recipe for heaves in horses
How to preserve your horse
How to train a horse to the harness
To cure thrush in horses\' feet
How to prevent saddle galls
Liniment for galls on necks or backs of horses
Properties of vegetable composition
The composition of bones
How a farmer may become rich
How to destroy the effects of frost
Use of the dande1ion
How to remove stumps
Rapidity of vegetation
Substitute for ringing swine
Utility of wasps and hornets
Important fact in agriculture
Absorption of rain
Cheap crop of sweet potatoes
How to catch hawks
Grain fields of the west
Directions for raising sweet potatoes
How to preserve manure
To save oats in feeding horses
How to make your corn last
How to fatten turkeys
The straw manufacture
Successful gardening
The culture of camomile
Growth and use of mushrooms
Milk as an article of diet
An expensive lawsuit
Wonders of chemistry
Profits of mowing land
Mildew on gooseberries
Stage for cutting grass
How to multiply fruit trees
Growth of cabbage
Lice on cattle
Rum and bread
Flavor of turnips in butter
The fruits of litigation
Pulverized charcoal for manure
Regular exercise
Set the time and keep it
How to destroy caterpillars on trees
How to cultivate pie plants
Apples for stock
Raising of calves
Saltpetre poisonous to pigs
Treatment of fruit trees disposed to canker
Value of corn cobs
Wedge and beetle
Recipe for fattening hens
The culture of quinces
How to propagate quince trees
How to prevent dogs from sucking eggs
Trees selected for shadde
Soil for young trees
Bearing of apple trees
Grafting of trees
Transplanting large trees
Pruning vines and trees
Cleaning the bark of fruit trees
Watering newly transplanted trees
Hints on planting fruit trees
A remedy for the peach worm
Direction for peach trees
Good effects of plaster on peach trees
To improve pear trees and their fruit
When are peach trees to be pruned?
On planting walnut trees
How to cure wounds in trees
On planting chestnut trees
How to restore an old orchard
Wash for fruit trees
Economy in sleeping
A substitute for white oil paint
How to take smell from fresh paint
A cheap and durable cement
Black paint made from potatoes
Substitute for white lead
The best season for painting houses
How measure hay in the mow or stack
Experiment in pork making
The value of reading
History and use of lettuce
Manuring wheat
Soaking corn in saltpetre
Chimney soot as manure
To kill white and yellow daisies
Parsnips for fattening pigs
Anecdote of a neetmok nut
Ashes from anthracite coal
Rats and mice
Benefits derived from toads
A remedy for mildew in grapes
To make hens lay perpetually
How to destroy ants
Prescription for killing rats
Why a poor man should have a garden
Direction for curing the wounds of cattle
To cure diseased chickens
The use of tar for sheep
Warm shelter for farm animals
How to promote the health of farm animals
How to kill worms
How much land should be cultivated
How to protect hens from vermin
Chloride of line for steeping seeds
How plants receive their carbon
How to kill crows
What is good farming?
How should cattle yards be improved?
Deep ploughing
To relieve choking
The peach worm
Properties of vegetable composition
A recipe for destroying insects on vines
Another mode of destroying insects
Another method to drive bugs from vines
Another recipe to keep rose bugs from grape vines
Further success against rose bugs
Habits of caterpillars
Gooseberry caterpillar
Importance of meteorology to the farmer
The importance of geology for farmers
The milk sickness
How to catch sheep
Culture of strawberries
To dry a cow of her milk
Sore teats in cows
Improvement in dairy stock
Increasing the milk of cows
How to cure kicking cows
Stabling for milk cows
Parsnips for hogs
Soot, brickdust and charcoal for poultry
Value of hen manure
Convenient preparation for glue
Slaughtering hogs
Killing fowls
Jewish mode of slaughtering cows
Directions for cabbage plants
How to make whale oil soap
Culture of melons
How to destroy the bee miller
How to destroy lice on cattle
How to remove bees
How to manage working oxen
How to manage a kicking cow
Proper time for slaughtering animals
Salt for cattle
A common error regarding swine
Care of the poultry house
To kill lice on cows, horses and hogs
Lice on poultry
To protect peach trees from frost
Making manure
How to avoid litigation
How to force the growth of rhubarb
To prevent birds and squirrels from destroying corn
How can one have hay seed without buying it
Let sunflowers grow on margin lands
Another method of killing rats
To prevent tools from rusting
How to prevent the decay of wood in farm implements
How to make gravel walks
Food for young turkeys
To exterminate beetles
Another method of destroying fowl lice
Remedy for the gapes, a disease in chickens
The importance of punctuality
Use of a newspaper in the country
The fragrance of flowers
How to preserve cabbage
How to get manure cheap
An abundance of litter for cattle, horses and hogs
Food for the young chickens
Treatment of mushrooms
The value of books in the country
The importance of industry
How to procure early cabbages
Rights on the public road
Good manners on the public road
What the ancients thought of agriculture
To remove rust from finely polished steel
Gypsum as a manure
Use of corn husks
To cure scours in cattle
The language of flowers
Watering plants
A specimen of industry
Power of absorbing heat
Grease for cart wheels
Manure for asparagus
How to be a good farmer
Vegetable instinct
Value of Indian corn and buckwheat for hens
Rural architecture
Family reading in the country
Books for every farmer
Periodical literature
Agricultural periodicals

Frontispiece:

Remember folks, this is an 1857 original. This book is 157 years old.

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