Agriculture for Beginners: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Agriculture for Beginners, credited to Charles William Burkett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett. Read in English by Sarah Jennings; Logan Lorenz; polyglotreader2; MaryAnnS; Diana Schmidt; BettyB; Larry Wilson; Ann Boulais. A textbook used by many public schools in the early 20th century. The authors believe that "agriculture is eminently a teachable subject. They see no difference between teaching the child the fundamental principles of farming and teaching the same child the fundamental truths of arithmetic, geography, or grammar. They hold that a youth should be trained for the farm just as carefully as he is trained for any other occupation, and that it is unreasonable to expect him to succeed without training." - Summary by the authors

Recording facts

• Recording title: Agriculture for Beginners
• Author credits: Charles William Burkett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 7:21:33

Catalogue topics

• plants
• horticulture
• dairy
• livestock
• farming
• soil
• crops
• orchard

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface; To the Teacher — 6:07
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - The Soil — 37:42
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - The Soil and the Plant — 25:29
4. 03 - Chapter 3, Part 1 - The Plant — 26:58
5. 04 - Chapter 3, Part 2 - The Plant — 22:06
6. 05 - Chapter 4 - How to Raise a Fruit Tree — 14:48
7. 06 - Chapter 5, Part 1 - Horticulture — 32:52
8. 07 - Chapter 5, Part 2 - Horticulture — 17:53
9. 08 - Chapter 6 - The Diseases of Plants — 27:22
10. 09 - Chapter 7 - Orchard, Garden, and Field Insects — 35:27
11. 10 - Chapter 8, Part 1 - Farm Crops — 30:39
12. 11 - Chapter 8, Part 2 - Farm Crops — 26:54
13. 12 - Chapter 8, Part 3 - Farm Crops — 13:21
14. 13 - Chapter 9 - Feed Stuffs — 29:17
15. 14 - Chapter 10 - Domestic Animals — 37:01
16. 15 - Chapter 11 - Farm Dairying — 23:23
17. 16 - Chapter 12 - Miscellaneous — 34:14

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