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animals and plants, a certain knowledge of human relations which 

 in all likelihood he would be unable to secure by the method of 

 direct instruction, and yet which all thinking people need to 

 possess, not only for their own protection, but for the intelligent 

 interpretation of public affairs along sociological lines. 



After all, the main purpose of the book and the main hope 

 of the writer is to interest the student in affairs of the farm, 

 and to enlist on the part of high schools the same interest in 

 the teaching of agriculture and the preparation for the affairs of 

 country life as is now exercised in the teaching of other sub- 

 jects and the preparation for other phases of life. Wherever this 

 new departure has been made it has been found that the educa- 

 tional value of subjects drawn from real life is surprisingly great, 

 and the social and economic results are beyond computation. 

 The hope to help this work forward has been, perhaps, the chief 

 inspiration in the preparation of the following pages. 



EUGENE DAVENPORT 

 University of Illinois 

 Urbana 



