Cato, On Farming transl. by A.
Dalby (1998)
NOTE: You ARE NOT required to read the entire work (you may if you want). Read the
sections entitled “Buying and Developing a Farm” and “Rituals and Forms of Contract” in
full; for the rest just be sure to read some from each section—let your interests guide you. You
should read ca. 50 pp. total.
PART ONE 195 30 136 Payment in Kind for Harvesting
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197 31 139 Expiation for Clearing and Ploughing a
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199 32 142 Instructions for the Manager: The
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Buying and Developing a Farm 203 34 144 Contract for Olive Harvesting
53 2 1 Selecting the Property 205 35 145 Contract for Oil-Making
57 2 Directing the Business 207 36 146 Speculative Sale of Oil and Wine
61 3 The Farm Buildings 211 38 149 Sale of Winter Pasture Rights
65 5 The Farm Manager 213 39 150 Speculative Sale of Produce of Sheep
69 Memoranda for the Manager 40 Addenda
71 6 Notes Where to Plant 215 40 151 Cypress Planting
17 Equipment and Structures 217 41 152 Three Notes on Wine
83 17 10 Inventory 41 155 Irrigation
91 21 14 Building Contract 219 42 156 Medicinal Uses of Cabbage
97 24 16 Notes on Materials 223 44 159 Two Charms
24 18 Press-Room and Presses 44 161 Growing Asparagus
103 27 20 Crushing Mills 225 45 162 Salting Hams
107 29 22.3 Notes on Buying Crushing Mills 46 Supplement on Cabbage
30 Farm Work through the Year 227 46 157 Garden Cabbage and its Uses
109 30 23 Around the Vintage 231 48 157.10 Cabbage Eaters’ Urine
113 32 26 In Autumn 48 157.12 Wild Cabbage and its Uses
117 34 32 Tending Vines
119 35 34 Autumn Sowing: More Notes on Where to
Plant
121 36 36 Memoranda on Crops and Manuring
123 37 37.2 In Winter
127 39 40 In Spring
PART TWO
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2 Supplies through the Year
139 2 54 A Calendar for Fodder
141 3 55 Note on Firewood
3 56 Provisions for household and Oxen
145 5 61 Memoranda on Ploughing and Planting
5 62 Note on Carts and Ropes
147 6 64 The Olive Harvest
8 Recipes
151 8 69 For Coating Oil Vats
8 70 Medicines for Oxen
155 10 74 Bread and Cakes
161 13 83 An Offering
13 84 Puddings and Porridges
163 14 88 Salt
165 15 89 Force-Fed Poultry
15 91 Uses for Amurca
169 17 102 More Medicines for Oxen
171 18 104 Wine and Wine Products
175 20 112 Coan Wine
177 21 114 Purges and Helleborre
179 22 116 Conserving Lentils and Olives
181 23 120 Must and Must Cakes
23 122 Two Medicines, and a Note on Dogs
183 24 125 More Medicines
24 128 More Uses for Amurca
25 Rituals and Forms of Contract
185 25 131 The Feast for the Oxen
187 26 133 Note on Layering
26 134 Sacrifice of the Harvest Sow
189 27 135 Where to buy Equipment
193 29 135.6 Specifications for Olive Crushung Mills
