THE FIRST BOOK OF FARMING 



PART I 

 General Principles Underlying Plant Culture 



CHAPTER I 

 INTRODUCTION TO PLANTS 



OUR object in reading and studying this book is 

 to find out some facts that will help those of us who 

 are thinking of going into farming and gardening 

 as a business or recreation to start right, and will 

 also help those of us that are already in the business 

 to make our farms and gardens more productive. 



In order to make the book of greatest value to 

 you, I would urge you not only to read and study it, 

 but also to make the excursions suggested and to per- 

 form the experiments. In other words, it will be of 

 much greater value to you if you will make the ob- 

 servations and investigations and find out for your- 

 selves the important facts and principles rather than 

 simply take statements of the book unquestioned. 



A very good time to begin this work is during the 

 latter part of the summer, when the summer crops 



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