The Farmer's Mine, or Source of Wealth

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Excerpt from The Farmer's Mine, or Source of Wealth: Being a Compilation, With the Addition of New and Important Information on the Subject of Manure, Together With the Most Approved Methods for the Manufacture of Vegetable Manure, by Which the Farmer Can Obtain in the Shortest Possible Time, as Much ManureOF all the pursuits to which mankind, from necessity or inclination, have devoted themselves, -there is none more honorable - certainly none more useful - than that of agriculture. Perfect agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry - it, is the foundation of the riches of States. To pursue this business successfully, knowledge, extensive. And varied, is required for, although a man may succeed by follo beaten paths of his predecessors, occasions will y arise, when the end desired be attained by methods much shorter than those adopted, if the farmer is. Able to form and apply It 18 here that science has, within a few years, rendered the most essential aid to agriculture. Sometimes, reasoning from well' known effects to their causes, the agricultural chemist has placed in the hands, of the farmer the means of producing results, always desirable, but which, under the older sys tems of farming, with his utmost care, he frequently failed of obtaining. Again, taking well-established facts in animal or vegetable physiology as his starting point, he has arrived at results of the highest practical importance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.