Excerpt from Facts for Farmers, Vol. 1: Also for the Family Circle; A Variety of Rich Materials for All Land-Owners, About Domestic Animals and Domestic Economy Though not perfect, farmers will find this book a useful one. If not invaluable, I hope it is one that they can not afford to do with out. In its compilation, the author has enjoyed many facilities and much experience 3 he has also labored under many difficulties, while daily engaged as an agricultural editor of a great daily and weekly paper. You will find here stored up for future use many of the valuable little items that you have read approvingly from time to time but have forgotten, useful to every man's family, and worthy of preservation. Usefulness instead of elegance has been aimed at. I have given more facts than theories. I have often given the Opinions of several upon the same subject, and, as some of these vary, I leave the reader to adjust differences. 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.
