Excerpt from Farm, Field and Fireside, 1898: Year-Book, Almanac and Cyclopedia of Political, Historical, Statistical, Agricultural and General Facts for Every American Home, Prepared From Original Sources and Presented With the Compliments of the EditorsOne may find, herein, reliable and interesting facts and figures on such subjects as the Coinage, Tariff, new legis~ lation on roads, harvests of the world, noxious weeds with the fullest table of weeds ever published - wheat prices in England and Chicago, dairy statistics, sheep and wool figures, pork packing, export of farm products, compara~ tive prices of staple products and, in fact, all that one would need to know relating to the various branches of live stock, horticulture and agriculture.To these pages, which are intended to be especially adapted to our agricultural readers, are added two hundred or more of general statistics on politics, elections and mat ters of universal interest, such as every citizen and every man, woman and child in our country, at some time or an other, desires to know. C. H. Howard, Editor.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.