Practical lessons in agriculture

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Preface

Agriculture, as a public school subject, has been rapidly growing in favor during the past few years. The results of this teaching have been so satisfactory that it is no longer necessary to set forth the value of this subject as a branch of education for the children of our schools. It is conceded by many progressive people that the addition of Agriculture to the public school curriculum has done more to arouse a real interest in school work than any other branch that has been added in years. The study of this subject produces a closer relationship between the home and the school, gives a new significance to farming and farm life, and emphasizes the importance of knowing tvhy in order that we may know how to farm. Farm life is held up before the young student as a happy and useful life, and the farm is given its proper consideration.

Practical Lessons in Agriculture is both a textbook and a laboratory manual. Most of the lessons are laboratory or field exercises, and they are arranged, as far as possible, in seasonal sequence. The book is adapted for use in the seventh to the tenth grades.

The authors feel that if a pupil, by the use of this book, is enabled to obtain a clearer understanding of how the farm may be used as a laboratory in which he may apply the knowledge gained at school, a great step will have been made towards bringing the school into closer touch with the home life of the student in the rural community.

In the preparation of this book many sources of information have been consulted and the authors hereby express their indebtedness to all whose writings have been of assistance. For carefiil reading and criticism of the manuscript the authors acknowledge their obligation to B. M. Davis, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; W. F. Copeland, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio ; and E. C. Sell, State Normal School, Athens, Georgia. They are also indebted to the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, International Harvester Company, and others for photographs fiirnished.

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