Nature Study in Its Practical Bearings (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Nature Study in Its Practical BearingsThe Bureau o-f Statistics shows that the value of the principal agricultural crops in the United States during 1903 was ooo, ooo, while that of all manufactured articles was less than one billion dollars. This indicates that over 7 5 per cent of our creative livelihood still comes from the farm, from intimate contact with plants and with the soil. Nowadays we hear much of an education for the life that one is to live. Yet the cultivation of intelligence directly necessary to maintain this tremendous industrial activity is dependent upon a few agricultural colleges, experiment station bul letins, and institute instructors, plus the precarious transmission of methods from father to son. That this is far from adequate is shown on every hand. The farmer boy doesn't like to spend the money nec essary to take him to college. The bulletins are ineffective because he doesn't understand experimental methods and because he is often unfamiliar with the objects considered, altho they may be surround ing him daily. The consequence is that thousands of men go on, daily and yearly repeating mistakes that might easily be corrected if they only knew of the available literature and could really read it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.