

TuE present Volume is the first of a series of Jive — the others 

 discussing the Live Stock and the Crojis of the Farm, the Soil 

 and its Tillage, and the Equipment of the Farm and the Estate. 

 Each book will be complete in itself, and the whole will form a 

 Handbook of the Farm adapted to the wants of the teacher and 

 the student of agriculture. The remaining volumes of the series 

 will appear as they are ready. Among the names of the writers 

 engaged on them are W. T. Carrington, G. Murray, T. Bowick, 

 G. Gilbert, S. Spencer, W. Burness, J. C. Morton, and others. 



J. C. M. 



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