Excerpt from A Teacher's Manual Geography: To Accompany Tarr and McMurry's Series of Geographies Children are already familiar with these home things in a vague, loose way, but we are inclined to overestimate the extent and accuracy of their knowledge. In some special cases they know enough about certain local topics without help from the school; but, generally speaking, children have little accurate knowledge of local industries and phenomena. Even the teachers are found in many cases to be extremely deficient in definite knowledge about such common topics as local directions and topography; weather changes; the dairy, the cultivation of garden vegetables and fruits the work of the farm in caring for crops and farm animals the tools, machines, and processes of the blacksmith, the tinner, the carpenter, and others; the work done in planing-mills, wagon factories, grain elevators, mills, etc. The shipment of fruits, meats, glass ware, and iron products by rail and by water, etc. 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.