Practical Farming a Plain Book on Treatment of the Soil and Crop Production: Especially, Designed for the Everyday Use of Farmers and Agricultural Students (Classic Reprint)

It appears to be the fashion with authors I to call their Preface a Foreword, but I am so old-fashioned that I prefer to call it by the old name, Preface. You may ask, Why a new. book on A griculture? Simply because in the numerous books for farmers that have appeared of late years I know of none that appeals directly to the man behind the plow in all sections of the country, and tries in the plain language of the farm to explain many of the things which the investigations of scientists have discovered in regard to the treatment of the soil and the production of crops. To this effort to explain scientific matters in plain language I have drawn in addition from the experience of a long life spent in the practical work of cultivating the soil, and have endeavored to make this a farmers book on farming, nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps to keep up with the phraseology of the day, I should call it a treatise on A gronomy. But my oldfashioned notions come in again, and I call it Practical Farming. Agronomy would sound more scientific, but I have not written the book for scientists, and therefore call it by a name that the plain tiller of the soil will understand. If he likes it and finds that it is helpful I shall be satisfied.
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