CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Letter of transmittal 5 



The country boy's creed 6 



Tlie footpath to peace 6 



Part I. — Man's struggle for food 7 



Man and nature 7 



How nations have fought for land 7 



The struggle for food 8 



Ancient knowledge of cooking 9 



Ancient use of vegetables 10 



The bread of the world 10 



The plowman 12 



The sower's song 13 



After the rain 14 



Part II. — The application of science to agriculture 15 



The mysteries of mother earth 15 



The origin of food plants IG 



The farmer's victory 16 



Effect of invention on agriculture 17 



What American inventors have done for the fjiniier 18 



The growth of agricultural instruction 20 



Cooperation among farmers 21 



Wonders of a single acre 22 



The little brown seetl in the furrow 23 



Green things growing 23 



September L-_. 23 



Deep 24 



Part III. — Men influential in improving agriculture 25 



George Washington 2."i 



Seaman A. Knapp 26 



Some of Knapp's epigrams 28 



Knapp's ten commandments of agriculture 29 



Luther Burbank 30 



Mr. Burbank's love of children 32 



Louis Pasteur 32 



Justin S. Morrill 32 



Isaac Newton 33 



James Wilson 33 



Significant things every schoolboy should know 33 



O. A. Kelley 34 



Horace Greeley 34 



Gregor Mendel 35 



Liberty Hyde Bailey 35 



Wilbur Olin Atwater 35 



Stephen M. Babcock 36 



David Dickson 36 



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