Excerpt from Farmer's Calend: Describing the Work to Be Done on Various Kinds of Fa During Every Month in the Year So much of the original work has been cancelled in this edition of it, that the editor has to apologize for his title-page. The serial publication of the book was begun before he had realized how much of the Farmer's Calendar, written more than half a century ago, is obsolete. And the name of Arthur Young has been thus nu wittingly committed to an almost entirely new book, not one twen tieth part of which is his authorship. During the quarter of a century which has elapsed since the last edition of his work, agriculture has benefited by scientific research, by mechanical ingenuity, by extended resources, and by increasing skill, vastly more than during any similar period in our history. Fertility has been increased by the operation of new processes, and of new implements by the importation and the manufacture of new manures by the cultivation of new plants and by the main tenance of a larger stock of improved animals. National Societies have stimulated and directed improvements, by publishing both failures and successes; and there are now, from agriculturists and from scientific men, abundant records and satisfactory explanations of every branch and kind of agricultural experience. No wonder that any attempt to describe the practice and experience of the farmer now-a-day should force one almost entirely out of the track pursued. By the agricultural writer of a previous generation. 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.