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Soils ... by S. W. Fletcher
Farm Animals ... by E. V. Wilcox
Cotton ... by C. W. Burkett and Clarence H. Poe
Farm Management ... by F. W. Card
[Illustration: A Commercial Apple Orchard in Nebraska]
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Including business accounts, suggestions for watching markets, time to market various products, adaptation to local conditions, etc.
Professor of Agriculture
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1907
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Copyright, 1907, By Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, March, 1907
All Rights Reserved
Including that of translation into foreign languages
Including the Scandinavian
The production of good crops and animals constitutes one phase of successful agriculture. It is the phase upon which most emphasis has been laid in the movements for agricultural betterment which have been so prominent in recent times. But higher crop and animal production does not represent all there is to good farming. An article which has been produced at too great cost or marketed unwisely may bring no financial gain. Executive ability and the proper adjustment of cog to cog in the busines venture count for more than soil fertility or intelligent crop management. To market a product advantageously is as essential as to produce it economically. In short, business methods are as important as production methods, and far more likely to be neglected.
To bring to the attention of students some of these problems of the farm has been the object of the course of lectures of which the present writing is the outgrowth. They are problems which should appeal to the farmer with even greater force than to the student. The aim has been to awaken interest and suggest methods of studying these problems rather than to present
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solutions of them, for the solution will differ with nearly every individual case. In the system of records and accounts outlined, simplicity has been kept uppermost, for to prove useful a system must be adopted, and to be adopted it must be simple.
Agricultural teaching and agricultural practice will both give greater heed to the business management of the farm in the years to come than in those gone by. Farm Administration, rather than farm production, is likely to receive special emphasis in the next forward movement for agriculture. It is the hope of the author that this book may help to sitmulate that movement.
Fred W. Card.
Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts,
Kingston, R.I., February 23, 1907.
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