Excerpt from The American Farm Book: Or Compend of American Agriculture; Being a Practical Treatise on Soils, Manures, Draining Irrigation, Grasses, Grain, Roots, Fruits, Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Cane, Rice, and Every Staple Product of the United States
The following work on American Agriculture is intended as one of the first in the series of lessons for the American Farmer. The size precludes its embracing any thing beyond the shortest summary of the principles and practice by which he should be guided, in the honorable career he has selected. As a primary work, it is not desirable it should comprise so much as to alarm the tyro in agriculture with the magnitude of his subject. A concise and popular exposition of the principal topics to which his attention will necessarily be directed, will, it is believed, in connection with his own observation and practice, give him a taste for further research, which will lead him to the fullest attainment in agricultural knowledge that could be expected from his capacity and opportunities.
Much of what is detailed in the present volume, has been tested by the writer's own experience and observation. For the remainder, he is indebted to various oral and written information, derived from the best agriculturists, and especially from the valuable foreign and domestic agricultural periodicals of the present day.
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