Author: William Seller

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Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 9781332177837

Excerpt from Physiology at the Farm: In Aid of Rearing and Feeding the Live Stock Farming, after having been followed for ages as an empirical art, or art resting solely on experience not generalised, now begins to take a place among pursuits that claim to be rational in their character, or, in other words, to have their foundations in principles of science. Nay, in our day it is not enough for the holder of a farm to know the composition of its soils and the kinds of material to be thrown from time to time thereon, to replace what the annual crops never fail to carry off. It is not sufficient for him to have learned how to deal with the laws that govern the vegetation of the seed, the growth of his crops, and their ripening for harvest, - he has also to carry his attention to animal nature. A large amount of his capital is absorbed by horses, cattle, and sheep. The return on his live stock will be, as a rule, in proportion to the skill brought to bear on its management. 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.