The Practical Farmer - a handbook for aspiring female farmers and housewives in the countryside from the year 1898. The author, Minna Petersen, describes in this volume the food items and their preparations, baking, butchering, preserving fruits and vegetables, making wines, vinegar, liqueurs, butter and cheese production, livestock breeding of cows, pigs, goats, rabbits, poultry, pigeons, as well as gardening with herb, fruit, and vegetable gardens, and much more. Illustrated with 242 black and white images. Reprint of the original edition from 1898.