Excerpt from New Elementary Agriculture: An Elementary Text Book Dealing With Plants, Insects, Birds, Weather, and Animals of the FarmThe demand for the New Elementary Agriculture has grown so fast that it has become necessary to publish a second edition. The few errors in the first edition have been corrected, and all the plates have been carefully revised.A number of teachers and superintendents have sug gested that exercises and questions would add greatly to the value of the book as a text. These appear in the revised edition. They are intended to help the student and also the teacher, who will use many other exercises and questions to add to the interest and value of the class work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.