WILKINSON'S PRACTICAL 

 AGRICULTURE 



By JOHN W. WILKINSON, A. M., Assistant State 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Oklahoma ; for- 

 merly Professor of Agriculture in Northwestern Normal 

 School, Alva, Oklahoma. 



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ACOMPLETE and practical treatise suited for the eighth 

 grade of grammar schools, or for high or normal 

 schools. It gives the pupil a definite technical training, 

 and fits him for farm hfe in any part of the United States. 

 ^The work takes up Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, 

 Landscape Gardening, Animal Husbandry, Stock Feeding, 

 Roads and Roadbuilding, and Country Life Conveniences. 

 Air, light, water, and soil, the staple farm crops, fertilizers, 

 the improvement of plant varieties, and the enemies of plants, 

 are discussed in a particularly helpful manner. Besides the 

 descriptive text, each chapter contains laboratory exercises, 

 questions on the text, and references to more exhaustive 

 works. 



^\ Nearly one-third of the book is devoted to topics which 

 relate to Civic Improvement. This extension of the field is 

 in accord with the tendency in the schools to broaden the 

 course in agriculture into a course in farm citizenship. It 

 corresponds to the incorporation of prevention of disease and 

 public health in a course in physiology. , 

 ^ In the preparation of the book the author has kept constantly 

 in mind the needs of the student as well as the facilities 

 at the disposal of the teacher for making the instruction 

 practical and available. No attempt has been made to exhaust 

 the various topics treated, and in every instance abundant lati- 

 tude is given the instructor to show his own individuality in 

 developing and carrying oyt the ideas suggested by the text 

 in the most helpful manner. 



AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY 



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