PRACTICAL 

 FARMING 



By W. F. MASSEY 



A Plain Book on Treatment of the Soil and 



Crop Production. Especially Designed 



for the Everyday Use of Farmers 



and Agricultural Students 



u y-xRACTICAL FARMING" has been designed 

 L by the author to fulfill a mission that many 

 so-called "books for farmers" do not: — to explain 

 to the farmer and student, in the plain language of the 

 farm, many of the things which the investigations 

 of scientists have proven in regard to the treatment 

 of soil and the production of crops. 



To his effort to explain scientific matters in plain 

 language, Mr. Massey has drawn in addition from 

 successful experience of a long life spent in the 

 practical work of cultivating the soil, and he has 

 made "Practical Farming" a farmer's book on farm- 

 ing, nothing more, nothing less. 



To the farmer anxious to get the most out of his 

 land, and to the student interested in the "why's" 

 and the "wherefore's" of agriculture will this book 

 appeal, and a thoughtful, painstaking study of its 



