02319nam 2200397 450 99619923940331620231103112137.00-674-99398-5(CKB)3820000000012252(NjHacI)993820000000012252(EXLCZ)99382000000001225220231103d1968 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOn AgricultureVolume I /Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella ; Harrison Boyd Ash (translator)Cambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,1968.1 online resource (461 pages)Loeb classical libraryColumella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about 70 CE. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's On Agriculture (De Re Rustica) is the most comprehensive, systematic and detailed of Roman agricultural works. Book I covers choice of farming site; water supply; buildings; staff. II: Ploughing; fertilising; care of crops. III, IV, V: Cultivation, grafting and pruning of fruit trees, vines, and olives. VI: Acquisition, breeding, and rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary medicine. VII: Sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs. VIII: Poultry; fish ponds. IX: Bee-keeping. X (in hexameter poetry): Gardening. XI: Duties of the overseer of a farm; calendar for farm work; more on gardening. XII: Duties of the overseer's wife; manufacture of wines; pickling; preserving. There is also a separate treatise, Trees (De Arboribus), on vines and olives and various trees, perhaps part of an otherwise lost work written before On Agriculture.Loeb classical library.AgricultureEarly works to 1800Sustainable agricultureAgricultureSustainable agriculture.630Columella Lucius Junius Moderatus71617Ash Harrison Boyd1891-1944,NjHacINjHaclBOOK996199239403316On agriculture278781UNISA