Excerpt from Farm and Garden Rule-Book: A Manual of Ready Rules and Reference With Recipes, Precepts, Formulas, and Tabular Information for the Use of General Farmers, Gardeners, Fruit-Growers, Stockmen, Dairymen, Poultry-Men, Foresters, Rural Teachers, and Others in the United States and Canad The first edition of this manual was published late in 1889, and the second early in 1892, both by the Rural Publishing Company, publisher of the "American Garden" and "Rural New-Yorker." The third edition, much remodeled, was published by The Macmillan Co., May, 1895. The book has been reprinted, February, 1896; May, 1897; August, 1898; August, 1899; June, 1901; October, November, 1902; February, 1904; July, 1905; January, 1907; May, June, 1908; August, 1909. The old form of the book, under the title "The Horticulturist's Rule-Book," is now to be discontinued, having served its place and day. So far as I know, it was the first compilation of its kind in this country, and therefore it was very imperfect and incomplete. The intervening years, covering nearly a quarter century, have also seen a vast enlargement of the farmer's horizon, so that the little book that I prepared in my novice days can no longer represent the situation. I am sure that I have more misgiving in putting out this larger and completer book than I had in the small first effort The field is wider, and therefore more difficult to cover; and knowledge has grown so uninterruptedly that one knows scarcely where to begin and what to compass. The only definite point is where to end, for publishers fortunately set limits to sizes of books; and when this limit was reached I discarded three or four chapters and prepared the index. For myself, I am conscious of the many good things that have not been printed in the book; but I hope that my consultant - I cannot expect to have a reader for a book of this sort - will find some satisfaction in the things that are included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.