The Farmer's Handbook (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Farmer's Handbook

This handbook is intended as a book of reference for general farmers, fruit growers, truck farmers, market gardeners, livestock raisers, dairymen, and in fact all persons interested in the principles and best modern practices of agriculture. Students and teachers of agriculture in colleges and public schools will find it of great value to them in their work, and suburbanites and city and town dwellers Who have gardens or raise livestock will receive much help from a study of its pages. 'while not a treatise covering the entire subject of agriculture; it presents facts, data, and information in language that is clear, concise, and easily understood, and with the matter arranged in a manner that makes the work especially valuable for ready reference.

Among the subjects treated are: Soil improve ment, general farm crops, fruit and vegetable cul ture, dairying,' bee keeping, farm implements and machinery, as well as a section on farm livestock; this last includes descriptions of the approved types and breeds of. Livestock and the best method for the feeding and caring of animals in both health and disease. Although the treatment of some of thesubjects is necessarily brief, the information given is of the same high order as that contained in the Instruction Papers of the Agricultural Courses of the International Correspondence Schools and is in strict accord With the latest agricultural methods.

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