Excerpt from The School-Book of Farming a Text for the Elementary Schools, Homes and Clubs The essence of this book is to develop a point of view on farming and country life in the minds of the young, to explain the relationships of the parts, and to state the main reasons underlying the growing of the leading crops and the raising of the common animals. 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.