This book is intended for the sixth, seventh, or eighth grade; and the subject matter and language are well within the range of pupils of these grades. The treatment is not technical, and therefore the book can be used in schools whose teachers have had no special training in the subject of school agriculture.
The aims of the book are to increase the efficiency of farming operations and to improve the general character of farm life by presenting useful information and by giving directions for practical laboratory work which may be done at school or at home. These exercises are easy to perform and require no special apparatus. If this experimental work is done with care, the pupil will acquire, in addition to the fundamental facts of agriculture, an excellent training in scientific methods.
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David Clement Deaver David Clement Deaver was born in Ohio and came to Nebraska when a young man, and to Omaha in 1887. He was one of the founders of the populist party... |
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Burt C. Buffum, MS Born in Indiana in 1868, Buffum was raised west of Fort Collins, Colorado, on his father’s sheep ranch. Upon graduating in 1889 from the Colorado Agriculture College (now CSU), he... |