Most pages of the book include at the bottom a number of questions forthe student to consider. These have been retained in this version in grey boxes with dashed outlines.
Some corrections to typographical errors have been made. These arerecorded at the end of the text.
ACCURATE ANALYSES OF SOILS, MANURES, AND
CROPS PROCURED. FARMS VISITED,
TREATMENT RECOMMENDED,
ETC.
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Analysis of Minerals, Soils,—Organic Analysis, etc.
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By G. E. WARING, Jr.
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This book is intended as a sequel to the Elements of Agriculture,being a larger and more complete work, containingfuller directions for the treatment of the different kinds ofsoils, for the preparation of manures, and especially for thedrainage of lands, whether level, rolling, hilly, or springy.Particular attention will be paid to the use of analysis. Thefeeding of different animals, and the cultivation of the variouscrops, will be described with care.
The size of the work will be about 400 pp. 8vo., and itwill probably be published January 1st, 1856. Price $1.Orders sent to the publishers, or to the author, at Rye, N. Y.,will be supplied in the order in which they are received.
Extract from a letter to the author from Prof. Mapes, editorof the Working Farmer:
* * * "After a perusal of your manuscript, I feel authorizedin assuring you that, for the use of young farmers, and schools, your book is superiorto any other elementary work extant. JAMES J. MAPES."
Letter from the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune:
My Friend Waring,
If all who need the information given in your Elementsof Agriculture will confess their ignorance as frankly as I do, and seek to dispelit as promptly and heartily, you will have done a vast amount of good by writingit. * * * * * I have found in every chapter important truths, which I,as a would-be-farmer, needed to know, yet which I did not know, or had but aconfused and glimmering consciousness of, before I read your lucid and straightforwardexposition of the bases of Agriculture as a science. I would not have myson grow up as ignorant of these truths as I did for many times the price of yourbook; and, I believe, a copy of that book in every family in the Union, wouldspeedily add at least ten per cent. per acre to the aggregate product of our