George Edwin Waring

The Elements of Agriculture: a Book for Young Farmers George Edwin Waring

The first edition of this book was written in 1853, when the writer was full of the enthusiasm that comes with the first years of study; when a very elementary knowledge of the subjects of which it treats made the whole plan of vegetation, cultivation, and manuring seem easy and simple. In some instances, rather vague fancies were presented as sound theories; and the perplexing uncertainties which beset the path of the more thorough student were ignored because unknown. The observation and experience of the intervening years have sadly clouded some of these fancies, and the veil which hangs about the true theories of agriculture has grown harder to penetrate, the difiiculties in the way of precise knowledge have not lessened with closer acquaintance. Notwithstanding its faults, the book received a very cordial welcome at the hands of the public, more because such a book was much needed, than because of its real value, and it ought, long ago, to I jave been rewritten.
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