Excerpt from American Farming and Stock Raising, With Useful Facts for the Household, Vol. 2 of 3: Devoted to Farming in All Its Departments, Including Rotation of Crops, Drainage, Fertilizers, Ensilage, the Dairy, Orchard, Vineyard Garden, Domestic Animals, Their Breeding, Management, and Diseases Few men in our community have made a more striking, or a more durable mark than Hon. Marshall Pf Wilder. Few have held more important public positions, or sustained themselves more honorably in them through so long a course of years. It has fallen to the lot of few men to initiate so many public enterprises which have enured to the benefit of the people among whom they have lived. 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.