By EMMET S. GOFF, late Professor of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, and D. D. MAYNE, Principal, School of Agriculture, St. Anthony Park, Minn.

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MUCH experience has taught that if agriculture is made the object of brain work, as well as of manual labor, better farms, and better farmers, will be produced. This book, therefore, is intended to present in a concise, practical manner for pupils in elementary schools, those fundamental principles upon which successful agriculture depends. The farm is treated as the center of interest, and its industries, economies, and science are discussed at some length. The book has been prepared with special reference both to simplicity and to scientific accuracy, and is based on the observation of the every-day facts of rural life, and on a system of simple experiments well within the resources of any school. The pupil is taught the reasons for the more important agricultural operations, and the explanations of the phenomena which accompany them. The soil and vegetation are first taken up, including such important topics as the rotation of crops, parasites of plants, seed testing, animals that destroy insects, and the improvement of plants. Then follow chapters on dairying, live stock, poultry, bee-keeping, and the improvement of home and school yards.

At the end of each chapter is a summary of what has been presented, furnishing in concise form definite statements for the pupil to learn, and supplying to the teacher a basis for drill work. An extensive appendix contains, among other useful information, fodder tables, a table of fertilizing constituents in feeding stuffs, and sections on milk testing, silage, contents of fields and lots, and quantities of seed required to the acre.

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