Author: Willis Macgerald

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9781330522509

Excerpt from Practical Farming and Gardening "There are three classes of farmers," says Dean Davenport, of the Illinois State College of Agriculture; "one class studies, experiments, originates; another class emulates the success of the originator, imitates his methods, and in time learns to go to first sources for information; a third has little faith in 'book-learning, ' and, misunderstanding success, will neither imitate nor learn. The whole tendency of modern times is to make farming so difficult a calling - so to raise the standard of competition - that the third class will be crowded to the wall and be forced into the poorest lands." It is for the class that puts brains into the management of soil and plants and animals that this volume has been published. The several articles have been prepared with a single view to giving a brief, but sufficiently comprehensive, introduction to modern agricultural practice. This composite of the sciences which we call farming is not to be dished up in a single volume; but in a single volume it is quite possible to tell the man who wants to read on any given farm topic, where he may find the book he wants. It is possible, further, to give so clear an insight into the essentials of farming under modern conditions as will simplify and illuminate all future reading, and to add thereto such handbook matter and useful information as every farmer needs, and finds it difficult to obtain at the moment it is needed. In the preparation of the classified bibliographies, the several specialist contributors have been absolutely uninfluenced by so much as the suggestion of commercial considerations. They have treated each book, as regards omission or inclusion, solely on its merits, as those merits appeared to them. In connection with the book-lists it should be observed that those publications of the United States Department of Agriculture to which no price is attached may be had free of charge on application to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; those to which a price is attached may be ordered from the Superintendent of Documents, Union Building, Washington, D. C., making remittances by postal money order or registered letter - never in stamps. From the Secretary, also, may be obtained lists to date of the free and priced publications, together with the monthly list of new publications, which is mailed regularly on request. For the convenience of those desiring to order books included in the lists given, any except publications of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Experiment Stations of the several States will be supplied at the price named by Rand. McNally & Co., Chicago, Ill. Departmental Publications and those of the Experiment Stations must be ordered direct from the Department of Agriculture, the Superintendent of Documents, or the Station publishing them. 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.