C

Cabbage, Cato’s advocacy of the
  planting
  seeding
Cakes, recipes for
Calendar of agricultural operations
Capons, chickens called
  method of caponizing cocks
Caprae, goats, derivation of word
Capreolus, a spiral tendril
Cascate delle Marmore
Casinum, Varro’s estate of
Cassius, quoted
Cassius Dionysius
Cat, the modern household, unknown to Varro
Cato, Marcus Porcius
  the De re rustica of
  literary style of, compared with Varro
Cats, contrasted with dogs in relations with man
Cattle, leaves as fodder for
  feeding of
  care of
  number and selection of, for a farm
  honour paid to, in naming Zodiacal signs and the constellations
  advice on breeding and feeding
  number of, to be kept
  advice on neat cattle
Centuria, defined
Chaff, derivation of word
Cheese, varieties and qualities of
Cheese cake
Chestnuts as food in Italy
Child, R., quoted
Cicero, quoted concerning Varro
  verse from
Cleaning grain
Clement-Mullet, J.J., translation by
Climate, choice of, in buying a farm
  connection between conformation of land and
Clover, advice on seeding
Coburn, book on alfalfa by
Colours of horses, significance of
Columella
  cited
  on ploughing
  rules about the compost heap
  on soil improvement with legumes
  on dangers from mosquitoes
  on alfalfa
  quoted
Comedy of Errors, origin of
Compost heap, rules concerning the
Concrete, fences of
Conformation of land, effect of, on agriculture
Constellations, names of cattle given to
Coots
Corn, structure of plant
  storing See Grain
Corn land as distinguished from plough land
Corsican honey
Cotton seed, utilization of
Country life, antiquity of
Cowper and Cowley, lines by
Crescenzi, Pietro, cited
Cultivating time
Curing hams
Cuttage of plants
Cyrrhestes, Tower of the Winds built by

D

Dante, quotation from
Darwin, Charles, Animals and Plants by
  quoted
  on dormice
Dates, eating preserved
Denarius, value of the
Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by, quoted
De re rustica, Cato’s
Desmolins, Edmond, cited
Dickson, Andrew, quoted
  cited
Diophanes of Bithynia
Disease in cattle, and remedies
Dislocations of bones, remedy for
Dogs, watch
  herd
Donaldson’s Agricultural Biography, quoted
Dondlinger, Book of Wheat by, quoted
Dormice, enclosures for, feeding, etc. 
Draining
  period for
Draught animals on farm
  number and choice of
Dry farming
Ducks, housing, care of, etc. 
Dunghill fowl
Dusting yard for poultry