2 INTRODUCTION. 



house, a dairy, fences, walls or hedges, and wells or 

 springs. 



It would he desirahle to have a stream running through 

 it or hy it, and to have a pond or swamp connected with or 

 belonging to it. 



5. A husbandman also wants capital to stock his farm 

 with cattle and other animals, and to furnish it with 

 carts, wagons, ploughs, and other tools. 



6. To carry on a farm successfully, a good deal of 

 knowledge and a high degree of intelligence are neces 

 sary, and these are to be obtained partly by study, and 

 partly by practice. 



By study the farmer should find out 1st, the nature 

 and mode of growth of the plants and -animals he is to 

 have to do with ; and 2d, the nature and properties of 

 the soil and of the atmosphere on and in which they live. 



Practice, or experience, is acquired by doing himself 

 the work on a farm, under the guidance of a skilful 

 farmer. By means of both study and experience, he 

 may learn to avail himself of all the means of improving 

 his farm which are in his reach, or which he can bring 

 within his reach. 



7. The farmer, indeed, should have that exact knowl 

 edge of facts and principles, of effects and their causes, 

 which is called Science. For example, if a farmer knows 

 exactly what a plant is made of, and what nourishment 

 it requires, and whether a particular soil contains the 

 substances which will nourish that plant, and, if it do 

 not, knows exactly what kind of manure does contain 

 proper nourishment for the plant, that farmer has a 

 scientific kn&amp;lt;&amp;gt;\\ Inliiv ! ilir phial, of the soil, and of the 

 manure. He has the science necessary to the culture 

 of that plant. Science is exact knowledge, obtained by 



