How the farm pays : the experiences of forty years of successful farming and gardening

Front matter

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The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library.

Contents

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INTRODUCTION 7 and 8

CHAPTER L

Introduction

It is doubtful if any book on agriculture has ever been written in this country of which the writers have had opportunities for such •extensive and varied experience as have the authors of this work. "U'tt.t.t4tvt Crozier is, perhaps, now better known than any other farmer on this continent, principally from the fact that for the past twenty years the exhibition of his fine stock and other farm products has enabled him to take more prizes than any other working farmer in the country, and that to-day the dairy and farm at Northport, L. I., on which these products have been raised, are models worthy of imitation by the tens of thousands engaged in farming who have failed to make it the profitable business that it has been, and still continues to be, to Mr. Crozier. The co-author, Peter Henderson, the senior member of our firm, although not a farmer, has long been considered, as is well known, an authority on all matters relating to practical garden work. His book, Gardening for Profit, now in the hands of probably 100,000 readers, has shown how to make gardening pay. In the present work Mr. Henderson tells in plain words the manner of growing such Vegetables and Fruits as can best be made profitable on the farm, besides interchanging with Mr. Crozier his opinions on such operations of the farm as his long practice in cultivating the soil enables him to do.

Mr. Crozier and Mr. Henderson have had the project in contemplation of getting up a work on American, farming for the past ten years; but both being engaged in the active work of their large operations on the farm and garden, it is doubtful if they would ever

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have got together to accomplish it, unless the idea had been conceived of getting the work up in conversational form, the words as spoken being taken down by a stenographer. This simplified the work of book making greatly, and it is believed that given in this way it has been made plainer and more interesting to the reader than if written in the usual manner. The benefit of this plan is derived from the fact that the answer often suggests a question, just such as the reader would be likely to ask, but with no one at his elbow to answer. It is here answered to the satisfaction of the questioner, or if not, the question is repeated till the subject has been made clear.

The illustrations given in the work are believed to represent the best standard types of their several kinds that we possess up to this date, the object in all cases being to give such as are the best and the most practical and economical for the farmer's purposes.

PETER HENDERSON & CO., 35 it 37 Coetlandt St., Publishers.

New York.

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