Life On The Farm Or Scientific Agriculture Simplified A Reading Book For Grammar And High Schools By Hiram H Shepard

Author : H. O. Sampson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330154397
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Effective Farming written by H. O. Sampson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Effective Farming: A Text-Book for American Schools As early as 1824 a. text-book of agriculture was published in the United States. This book was an agricultural reader, by Daniel Adams. In 1837 a "Farmer's School Book," by Orville Taylor, was published at Albany and Ithaca, N. Y. For one hundred years there has been pressure for the introduction of agriculture into schools. The subject has waited, however, for many reasons. The industrial development of the middle of the last century undoubtedly obscured the importance of agriculture. The colleges of agriculture were expected to satisfy much of the demand. In the later years of the last century the profits in farming were difficult and small. Schools have been unadapted to teaching in agriculture. Now, however, the way has opened. A national law of vast significance (The Smith-Hughes Act) has provided the means for redirecting the schools and providing instruction in agriculture and home-making. Many schools have learned to teach these subjects. It is admitted by all that the vocational subjects dealing with land and its produce are essential to any school system that would help maintain the best kind of civilization. Our first duty is to care for the earth. If we cannot produce our supplies for food and clothing, all the other elements of society perish. A text-book of agriculture, therefore, deals not only with an interesting set of subjects but it also strikes at the foundations of human institutions. No longer shall we feed ourselves by chance or by foraging; the time is rapidly passing when we may longer till the earth carelessly or ignorantly. All the people demand that the farmer shall be intelligent, alert, and resourceful, providing a proper support for society. We cannot live on the past. 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.