Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Agriculture, for the Year 1879
The intelligent farmer of to-day will not carry away from the soil, in gathered harvests, more plant-making material than can be replaced, after deducting the cost of their production, by the money they will bring him. He has begun to learn the nature of every product of his farm, whether it be produced from the soil directly, or come more remotely therefrom through the agency of his domestic animals. If he removes the material for plant-growth, he wisely replaces it and if he would reap an increased harvest, he adds a liberal annual interest to the cap ital stock with which he began. If there is one indication on our worn farms just now more promising than any other, it is the demand, coming in every direction, to know what and how to furnish the soil, at mini mum cost, with the material for producing maximum harvests. This is the essential question of the day with those who are endeavoring to build up our agricultural interests. All over the State our tillers of the soil are striving to solve the problem, and never so earnestly as during the preceding year. 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.
