PREFACE TO SUPPLEMENT 



In preparing AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS, the authors 

 purposely refrained from treating in detail many subjects 

 of agricultural importance. This was done for two reasons : 

 first, schools are, in general, just beginning to teach agri- 

 culture, hence the authors wanted to present, as far as 

 possible, only fundamental principles; second, they did 

 not want to put too large a book into the hands of school 

 children. 



There has, however, been a demand from several states 

 for a more extended treatment of some topics, and this 

 supplement is prepared to meet that demand. 



Professor W. F. Massey, horticulturist of the North 

 Carolina Experiment Station and editor of the Practical 

 Farmer, has rendered much kindly aid in the preparation 

 of the Supplement. Thanks are also due to the Bowker 

 Fertilizer Company for the loan of several interesting and 

 attractive photographs. 



MAY, 1904. 



