A Manual of Agriculture for the Eighth Grade (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Manual of Agriculture for the Eighth Grade The widespread interest in the teaching of agriculture and the requirement of the State Board of Education that pupils taking the eighth grade examinations must be examined either in agriculture, home economics or manual training, make timely the publication of this Manual of Agriculture for the Eighth Grade. It is designed to supplement the regular State Manual, and will form the basis for the eighth grade examination in agriculture. I feel that we have been fortunate in the authorship of the Manual. Mr. Richardson has been until recently instructor in agriculture in the Snohomish public schools, and has brought to his writing the knowledge acquired not only from a thorough study of the science, but also from experience in presenting it to boys and girls. The aim in the preparation of the Manual has been to aid teachers, particularly teachers in rural schools, who have had no training in agriculture and who have no laboratory equipment at hand, in the task of presenting the elementary phases of agriculture in a way that will accomplish valuable results. I feel from an examination of the material offered, that the aim has been well met and that the exercises will prove not only suggestive, but actually usable by the teachers of the state. The point of view chosen for the Manual was that of experiment. While there are many good texts in agriculture on the market, in most cases their treatment of the science is academic. The endeavor here has been not to study agriculture through a text book, though supplementary literature will be found helpful, but by drawing on the pupils previous experience and by directing and quickening his powers of observation, to show him the identity of the theoretical and practical aspects of agriculture, and to encourage a wholesome interest in his own surroundings. I believe that the point of view is correct from the standpoints both of science and pedagogy. The Manual may therefore be used either with or without texts in the hands of the pupils. 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.