Download or read book What Is the Opportunity in Agriculture for the Farm Boy Classic Reprint written by U. S. Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What Is the Opportunity in Agriculture for the Farm Boy? Another factor in the adjustment between the farm and urban popu lation is the difference in death rate. He somewhat higher death rate in the cities shortens the productive years of life, probably by 10 percent when Compared with farm people. 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.
Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy Classic Reprint written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Autobiography of a Farm Boy It is this courage, this steadfastness in the de termination to hold the field for agriculture, that grows larger in my estimation as the years go by. I speak of his work in the past tense, for I too look backward; but I am glad that he is still keen to follow the result Of his labors. It was not then a day for erudition, or for high technical scholarship, but a time for clear faith, homely and direct relations with the people, wisdom in giving advice. From the first years that I knew him he was a philosopher and a forecaster, always prae tical, always driving home the point, always with his feet squarely on the ground. He loved the farm; from the rail fence to the back lot, the trees in the pasture, the woodside, the orchard, every animal in stall or field, the high land and the low land, all were his to walk over, to question, to inspect with care, and to improve. It was one of the delights of his teaching to take his boys to the farm. He was a master in the practice Of observing farm conditions, why the grass was thin here and heavy there, why the weeds came in, why the animals chose the spot on which to lie, how to run the drains, to build a fence, to put up a shed or barn, to paint a building, how to break a horse, how to breed a herd from. A common foundation, how to sell a crop, what the weather meant, how to bring an old field back into good condition. He did not teach some small department of farm knowledge as we do in these days, but the Whole farm and the farmer and the wife and the children and the hired man; and he taught it with a quiet and genial philosophy, Often quaint and always full of good humor. He was the real teacher of the small group, preferring the out-of-doors and the barns and the herds to the formal laboratories. I have never known anyone to make such good educational use of an entire farm and its equipment. 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.
Download or read book Farming for Boys Classic Reprint written by Edmund Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Farming for Boys The mass of farmers' boys understand that they must carve out their own fortunes. If their parents would afford them some little Opportunity to begin early, - an equal one with the sharp newsboy of the city, - they too would become so shrewd, so self-reliant, so expert at acquisition, even on the farm, that, educated to moderation, they would be too well sat isfied with small gains to be overcome by the seductions of city life. If it be mere money which makes the latter attrae tive, a certainty of being able to acquire it at home would seem to be potent enough to surround with greater attractions the spot on which the farmer's boy may have been born. 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.
Download or read book Opportunities in Farming written by Edward Owen Dean and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture for Common Schools Classic Reprint written by Martin L. Fisher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Agriculture for Common Schools While it is not the province of the public schools, as at present organized, to teach the trades, it is their privilege and their duty to put the child in intelligent touch with the life about him and to use all of the means at hand in the process Of education. Much has been said about the tendency among boys to leave the farm for the town, and many attempts at explana tion and justification have been made. While it is perfectly proper for the boy to leave his father's farm and seek his fortune in a crowded city, sometimes he has gone with the mistaken notion that he could substitute wit for work in life's contest, 01: because Of a lack of appreciation of the dignity Of labor. Sometimes, also, he has gone because he has failed to see his Opportunities on the farm. The fact that he has not always bettered his condition has suggested a possibility of bringing about at least a more intelligent consideration of the question. 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.
Download or read book My Little Farm Classic Reprint written by Patrick D. Kenny and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Little Farm This is less a handbook in scientific agriculture than a headbook in profitable farming, but it is for both, and for the cultivation of character as essential to cropping. The profit is no longer possible without the science, but the science must either show the profit or remain under suspicion. The expert, working at the Government's ex pense, can do anything with a plot of half a rood, so long as he is not asked to balance the product against the cost, but the practical farmer wants to see the net profit on a working scale, and he is right, because the final measure of science in all industrial application is the economic value. No other standard can be safely admitted into industrial practice. 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.
Download or read book Farm and Home Mechanics written by United States Office of Indian Affairs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Farm and Home Mechanics: Some Things That Every Boy Should Know How to Do and Hence Should Learn to Do in School Nearly every Indian boy when at home lives in the country rather than in town, and therefore is more or less closely in touch with farm life. The majority of these boys have their own land, and this majority should ultimately make their living from this land. To do that requires that they live the lives of farmers. There are many simple processes which the white boy who is brought up on a farm learns incidentally at home that the Indian boy has no Opportunity to learn there, but which he must know how to do if he is to make a real success of his farming. 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.
Download or read book Farmboy written by John B. Babcock and published by De Witt Historical Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Successful Farming written by William Rennie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Successful Farming: How to Farm for Profit, the Latest Methods His methods, and in the second year of his manage ment the farm yielded a profit of two thousand dolhrs; making a difference of seven thousand dollars per year. This is ofi'ered as evidence that_. Mr Rennie' e principles of agriculture are founded on a profit gaining basis; it also proves that a knowledge of these scientific principles is necessary to the success of any farmer. The author recognized this fact. And his purport in writing this book has been to thoroughly explain in simple language the principles of science as applied to farming. All the ideas set forth in the book may be readily carried out; no impracticable theories are advanced. The article on Alfalfa clover is especially valuable, and should be carefuhy studied by every reader of this book. -the sections on the Restoring and Maintaining of Soil Fertility, the Destruction of Noxious Weeds, the Conservation of Soil Moisture, Shallow Plowing and Crop Rotation are also of special importance. Every department of the farm and farm-home has been given the most thorough attention, and if farmers will carry out the easily-followed scientific principles, they may reson ably expect an increase in profits and a saving of labor, which will add pleasure and zest to their daily duties. Wm. Rennie's sons. 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.
Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography of the first Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University offers an unconventional account of farm life in New York and the Middle West during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties attendant upon building up a vital and progressive agricultural college. Born in Seneca County, New York, in 1833, Isaac Phillips Roberts emigrated west--first to Indiana, where he worked as a carpenter until he was able to buy a farm, and taught school during the winters; then, in 1862, to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in a pioneer wagon with his wife, Margaret, and daughter. In 1869, he became the Superindent of the Farm and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames, where he soon became Professor of Agriculture. In 1873, he returned to New York to take a similar position at Cornell University; shortly thereafer, he was made Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station. During his thirty years of service in Ithaca, he wrote voluminously on agricultural subjects, and after his retirement, penned Autobiography of a Farm Boy, initially published in 1916, reissued by Cornell University Press in 1946, and now made available in paperback. He died in Palo Alto, California, in 1928.
Download or read book Foreign Agricultural Extension Activities Classic Reprint written by J. M. Stedman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Foreign Agricultural Extension Activities Lecturers are provided at the request cf the agricultural societies and other rural organizations which are not charged for this service but are required to provide the hall and advertise the meetings. The plan by which the extension branch furnished lecturers until the winter of 1924 - 25 was to send out together two experts one, a livestock specialist and the other, a field crops Special ist. These two experts spent one or two days at a place, giving lectures each afternoon and evening. As this plan had never proved very satisfactory, owing to the general character of the subjects covered, and the fact that the same persons were not able to attend both afternoon and evening meetings, a new plan was adopted in the season of l924 25. By this plan each society was of fered two lectures on definite subjects, to be given at different times during the winter, either in the afternoon or evening, as seemed more convenient. The audiences were much smaller under this new plan, but those who attended got more satisfaction. During 1924 - 25, lectures were given on farm poultry, the farm garden, the control of weeds, farm dairying, beekeeping, gen eral agriculture, and veterinary science. A total of 128 lectures was given with an attendance of Besides these lectures, special lectures, accompained by demonstra tions, were given on the bacon-hog industry. These were conducted by the Domin ion livestock branch in Cooperation with the extension Special bacon branch of the provincial department and were given at points lectures where the farmers were especially interested in hog raising. Each lecturer was provided with a select bacon hog and two cured sides, one from a select and the other fron a thick smooth hog, and in each district where the lectures were held, four or five farmers were each asked to bring in a hog as near the weight of the select bacon hog as possible. These and the select hog were all kept together in a yard and a demnstration and discussion on market types and grading were conducted. Everyone of the 517 farmers who at tended the ll special lectures were actually engaged in hog raising and were deep ly interested in the subject of market type hogs and the proper and most economi cal method of raising select h0gs. _radio lectures. An innovation was introduced in the fall of 1923 by the agricultural extension branch of the department of agriculture in the form of a series of lectures on timely agricultural types by radio. A list of these lectures, which were given by members of the college of agriculture staff, was sent to each of the agricultural societies, requesting them to arrange to re ceive the lectures and to provide for their publicity, if possible, through the local newspapers. Some of the titles of the lecture were: Preparing Poultry for Market, Seasonable Reminders for Horticulturists, The Brood Sow Her Care and Selection, The Importance of Winter Dairying in Saskatchewan, Growing Grain in Rows a Success, Winter Care of Poultry, A Report of the Internatioanl Livestock Show, A Message to Saskatchewan Women, Playing Safe with the Feed Problems, Spring Care of Farm Machinery, Preparing for the Spring Litter, Reproducing the Poultry Flock, The Home Garden, and Opportunities for the Farm Boy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Download or read book Country Gentleman the Magazine of Better Farming written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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