Excerpt from Elements of Scientific Agriculture: Or the Connection Between ScienceThis little treatise is an attempt to supply a great and growing want in our country, a want of some elementary work, that shall clearly and distinctly ex plain the great principles that are involved in the applications of science to agriculture. The necessity for such a work has become apparent to all who have engaged in the dissemination of knowledge upon this subject, to all who have endeavored to arouse the farming community, by bringing forward incitements to the study of this new science.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.