FOREWORD BY THE PUBLISHER 



We regret exceedingly to be obliged to announce the death 

 of Professor Walter Edmund Brooke which took place on 

 October 2, 1918, while his book was in the process of pub 

 lication. The compilation of this volume, however, was en 

 tirely his own work and was, in fact, the last thing he did, 

 for the sole purpose of elevating and dignifying agriculture 

 by showing the intelligent interest and application of what 

 were in George Washington s time only the crude principles 

 of what is now modern and scientific agriculture. 



We feel sure that the readers of this volume will be inter 

 ested in the following brief biography. Any one who had the 

 pleasure of knowing Professor Brooke will need no eulogy 

 of his splendid achievements. 



Walter Edwin Brooke was born April 16, 1885, at Ply 

 mouth, Indiana, where he spent his boyhood days. Coming 

 to Salt Lake with his parents, he entered upon his educa 

 tional career in the Salt Lake public schools and graduated 

 from the high school in 1904. 



After two years spent at Armour Institute of Technology 

 at Chicago, he entered Yale. It was here that his widely 

 known interest in young men and their problems was culti 

 vated. During his five years at Yale he became very deeply 

 interested in the welfare of his companions. Realizing that 

 there lacked much to interest and hold young men when not at 

 study or recitation, he made bold to approach certain of the 

 faculty on the subject and asked to be permitted to try out 

 a scheme to hold them under the influence of good teachers 

 and companions. 



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