Excerpt from A Reader of Elementary Tropical Agriculture: Adapted to Farming in the Philippine IslandsThe subject is one that, popularly or in no other way, can be made to ap peal to the very young, nor is it desirable, from an educational standpoint, that the study should enter into the curriculum of children under twelve to fourteen years. Ou this account, the subject is treated in the style that con forms to the requirements of a third or fourth grade school reader.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.