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American Farm Book; Or, A Compend Of American Agriculture
Richard Lamb Allen
Technology & Engineering; Agriculture; General; Gardening / General; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
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Richard Lamb Allen was an American writer, agriculturist and manufacturer. He was one of the founders of the American Agriculturist.
Background
Richard Lamb Allen was born on October 20, 1803 in Westfield, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Samuel Allen and Ruth (Falley) Allen. His grandfather was Captain Richard Falley, a soldier in the colonial war against Canada and in the American Revolution.
Education
Allen was educated at the Academy at Westfield, Massachusetts. He also studied law at Baltimore, Maryland.
Career
Allen first engaged in mercantile business in New York City and then in literary pursuits. Poor health compelled him to take up a more active life in 1832. He acquired possession of a large tract of woodland on the Niagara River, near Buffalo, New York, where he cleared land, cultivated crops, and bred various kinds of improved livestock. In later years he was a larger owner of real estate at Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
In April 1842 with his older brother, Anthony B. Allen, he founded the American Agriculturist in New York City. At the end of that year he retired from the editorship but was a frequent contributor and in 1849 again became a co-editor, in which capacity he continued until this journal was sold to Orange Judd in 1856. The great demand for improved agricultural implements, which was created in part by the wide circulation of this paper, led the two brothers to create the firm of A. B. Allen & Co. and open on January 1, 1847, an agricultural-implement warehouse in Water St. , New York. Soon afterward extensive agricultural-implement works were added in Brooklyn.
In 1846 Richard Allen published A Brief Compend of American Agriculture. This book of 436 pages dealt broadly with plant and animal production, farm equipment, and animal diseases. It was dedicated "to the young farmers of the United States. " The author thought of it as having a definite educational mission. In the introduction he showed his great interest in agricultural education by declaring that it was "the duty of each of the largest States of the Union, liberally to endow and organize an Agricultural College, " connected with which should be laboratories and farms for experimental investigations. The following year that portion of the Compend which dealt with animals was revised and made into a separate book, entitled Domestic Animals. This contained a "History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs, with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding and preparation for a profitable market, also their diseases and remedies, together with full directions for the management of the dairy. " In 1849 a revised and illustrated edition of that part of the Compend relating to plant production and farm equipment was issued as The American Farm Book. The entire Compend was reissued in 1869 as the New American Farm Book and, revised by the author's brother Lewis F. Allen, was again republished in 1883.
His death occurred on September 22, 1869 at Stockholm, Sweden.
Achievements
Allen was best known as a prolific writer on agriculture and owner of a successful publishing business, which was afterward carried on by his son Richard Hinckley Allen.