The American Wheat Culturist: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of Wheat (Classic Reprint) baixar o livro de graça

Excerpt from The American Wheat Culturist: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of Wheat My apology for writing a book on wheat is simply my desire to aid farmers in their efforts to produce more bountiful crops of this kind of grain. For more than forty successive years, I have had more or less practical experience in the culture of wheat. I have studied the habit of the wheat plant far more, perhaps, than the great mass of farmers have considered the subject to be of any practical importance. I have investigated the failures of the wheat crop, and endeavored to discover efficient and practical remedies. I have excluded from the book every subject that might leave the ambitious young farmer in doubt; and have simply made a record of my own practical experience. There are scores of successful farmers who know most of what is contained in these pages. But the great mass of young farmers, who are just taking the places of their fathers, have yet to learn the important fundamental principles laid down in this work. Thousands upon thousands of active men, who know little about the practical part of raising wheat, will find in the following pages exactly the information they must have, before they can raise a bountiful crop of this kind of grain. Some of the articles were prepared originally by my pen, for the Independent, New York Observer, New York Times, and American Agriculturist. But after publication in those papers, they were rewritten and revised. I herewith desire to give honorable and honest credit for anything that has appeared in those periodicals and in this book also. With a few exceptions, the illustrations were originally prepared by myself for this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.