Excerpt from Queries With Answers: Upon Agricultural and Horticultural

These 999 Questions represent only a small portions of the Queries which have been sent to the firm of the author, and which have presented themselves to practical minds, dwelling upon the subjects of field work connected with agriculture and horticulture, more particularly in the special branch of Vegetable Gardening.

Among farmers and gardeners not enough thought is given to the why and wherefore, or cause and effect, for, as a rule, they go on year after year without profiting by the personal opportunities afforded them of observation, or by the results of experiments at scientific stations. Every year a new series of cultivators, both of farm and garden, spring into existence, few of them profiting by, few indeed knowing anything about, the experiences of their predecessors.

With rare exceptions the young farmer and gardener does not take up his work from the scientific side, but strictly from the laborers side, and he begins at the bottom, meeting the same difficulties as did his father and too often not acquiring information beyond what his father possessed.

This should not be, agriculture should be taught in all our public schools of country districts, as it has been taught for years in Germany and Austria. It should be elevated as an art, in its higher estate it already is an art. No pursuit possesses a greater scope for development, the field is almost unoccupied by leaders, scientific and practical.

Since this Book has gone to press, many more Queries have been presented, and they, with others, will be comprehended in a second Volume, now being prepared, to be issued a year hence, which will comprise over 1000 additional Queries. The Author asks readers to send him at once, and any time hereafter, additional questions that he may answer them, the responses subsequently to be embodied in the second volume.

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