The Farmer's Every-Day Book, or Sketches of Social Life in the Country is intended to be a farmer's social handbook for maneuvering the complex human side of life on a farm, written by John Lauris Blake.

In his opening, Blake acknowledges that a great deal has been written about the theory and practice of agriculture, thus this book intentionally stays clear of this topic. Instead, the author focuses on the social life of the farmer. The text touches on almost every aspect of life for farmers and their families: educational options for sons of farmers, appropriate dress when not farming, religious influences in agricultural life, bathing tips, financial matters, how to host Thanksgiving, and much more. The breadth of this text is certainly impressive, and at more than six hundred pages, the author has written many words on the everyday life of a farmer.

The Farmer's Every-Day Book is a delightful text for the modern reader. It is a time machine that transports you back to rural America in the mid-nineteenth century. While some of the advice given can still be considered practical, the real value of Blake's work is the charming picture it provides of living in a specific time and place. Many authors of fiction try and fail to paint as vivid a picture as Blake has in this non-fiction work.

John Lauris Blake has left behind a fascinating snapshot of life on a farm in the 1800s. One will feel as if they themselves once lived a rural lifestyle in the nineteenth century after reading this book. The Farmer's Every-Day Book, or Sketches of Social Life in the Country is a real treasure, and one that deserves to be read by anybody interested in the rural lifestyle.

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