What I Know of Farming: A Series of Brief and Plain Expositions of Practical Agriculture As an Art Based Upon Science (Classic Reprint)

Men have written wisely and usefully, in illustration and aid of A griculture, from the platform of pure science. Acquainted with the laws of vegetable growth and life, they so expounded and elucidated those laws that farmers apprehended and profitably obeyed them. Others have written, to equally good purpose, who knew little of science, but were adepts in practical agriculture, according to the maxims and usages of those who have successfully followed and dignified the farmers calling. Trank with neither of these honored classes. My practical knowledge of agriculture is meager, and mainly acquired in a childhood long bygone; while, of science, I have but a smattering, if even that. They are right, therefore, who urge that my qualifications for writmg on agriculture are slender indeed. I only lay claim to an invincible willingness to be made wiser to-day than I was yesterday, and a lively faith in the possibility nay, the feasibility, the urgent necessity, the imminence of very great improvements in our ordinary dealings with the soil.
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