Author: J. W. Dawson

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Published: 2015-08-08

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781332509034

Excerpt from First Lessons in Scientific Agriculture: For Schools and Private Instruction The writer of this little book had, in his youth, some opportunities of becoming familiar with agricultural operations; and read with eagerness and enthusiasm those remarkable works of Liebig and Johnston, which in 1840 and the following years revived throughout Britain and America the interest in the applications of chemistry to agriculture which had been awakened by Sir Humphrey Davy. It was subsequently his duty, as Superintendent of Education in Nova Scotia, to make an effort to introduce the teaching of agricultural chemistry into the schools of that Province; and more recently it has fallen to him to communicate some knowledge of the subject to the teachers in training in the McGill Normal School in Montreal. From these labors has grown the present work, which is intended as a text-book for teachers desirous of introducing the study of Scientific Agriculture into their schools, and also as a manual for young men who may be pursuing the subject as a branch of private study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.