lV DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 
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 bevond 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 
