I]SlTEODUCTIO:sr. 



AGRICULTURAL LITERATURE 



BY HON. CHARLES L. FLINT. 



tGRICULTURAL Literature !" we can imagine we hear 

 the reader exclaim; "wliat has the barnyard, the cart 

 horse, the milk pail, the plough, or the corn field, 

 ^^ homely objects, interesting, no doubt, but by no means 

 literary, to do with literaiare?" Much, let me tell you. More 

 than appears at first sight, for in these subjects are found the 

 results of scientific knowledge, of the great and immutable 

 truths of chemistry, of physiology, of the laws of breeding, of 

 mechanics, of botany, of entomology, in fact, of every science 

 and of many arts. 



What literature has done for theology, for astronomy, for all 

 the sciences that elevate and adorn humanity, she is ready to 

 do for Agriculture, the art of arts, to which we owe all the 

 comforts of civilized life. 



Says the editor of the ^^ Rural WorlV : — ■ 

 '■^ Book Farming — what is it? It is simply the best farming 

 put in books — yours, reader, if it is the best. A fool cannot 

 wTite a book ; an able man must do it — not a man of mere 



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