Excerpt from Soils: Their Nature and TreatmentDuring the last few years the progress in the study of science applied to farming has been very great, and the number of farmers and farm students who have taken the matter up is ever on the increase.It is believed that a summary of information on scientific practice might be usefully offered to those interested - whether young or old-hence the present series Of Handbooks, of which the first is now issued. The series will consist of separate volumes on soils, crops, live stock dairy farming, and farm equipment, and each will be complete in itself. The subjects will be treated in a simple manner, without introducing many technicalities, and the volumes will 'form a complete treatise on modern scientific farming.The author is himself farming extensively, and has sifted all the information through his own practical experience. In many cases farmers from long training instinctively form their judgments and ideas on anything connected with the farm without any conscious reason ing on the matter in these volumes the scientific know ledge behind the practical work will be explained, so that the learner may understand the reasons Of all the complex phenomena he meets with on a farm, and may thus in the future develop his farming on a sound scientific basis.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.