Excerpt from The Australian Agriculturist and Guide for Land Occupation: Plain Experiences in Station, Farm, Orchard and Garden Work, Dairying, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Ensilage Making, Poultry Farming, Fruit Preserving, Pests of the Agriculturist and How to Check Them, Home Helps, Directions for Treating Wounds, Snake-Bite, &C On returning from a Commission to the United States and the West Indies, the author was asked to prepare a second edition early in 1880 but he had not opportunity for doing so till now. Since the time men tioned the work has been practically out of print, and has become scarce and dear. It is now re-arran ed, so as to be suitable for teaching pur poses, while still continuing to the guide for practical work, as designed in the first instance. Several new chapters are added, bringing us up to what is going on at the present time in Dairying, Ensilage-making, Poultry Farming, 8rd, and special chapters concerning our Soils, Native Grasses, &c., of which much less was known when the first edition was published. The thanks of the author are tendered very heartily to the oficers of the Education Department, and to their chief (the Hon. J. H. Carruthers, m.p.) for recommending the work as suitable for students in the advanced classes for agricultural instruction in the National Schools. As now arranged, it really contains a series of lessons for an entire course of taachin upon the lines followed with so much success in the Sydney Technica College. The practical part of the work, and those divisions which have so long been followed as affording seasonable useful information concerning the working of Soils and crops, have been carefully revised and added to with the hope that they may prove even more useful than formerly. 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.