id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 12140 Varro, Marcus Terentius Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro .txt text/plain 95921 4268 75 Varro's treatise on farm management is the best practical book on time, for so it is with farm work, if one thing is done late, every the cultivation of the land and is so called from the _villa_ or farm "Surely," said Fundanius, "feeding cattle is one thing and agriculture "No kind of cattle," said I, "are of any use to agriculture except to work the land a second time before you sow your seed. and again many place names on land like the town in Greece known as food in the day time where the flock is feeding and at night where the They set bee hives all about the house and planted part of the land it in Cato's day, but by the time of Varro and Virgil it was well that in Varro's time the Roman farmer in Italy both sowed and reaped ./cache/12140.txt ./txt/12140.txt