Excerpt from The Business Side of Farming The farmer is a manufacturer: The soil, atmosphere, sunshine and showers are the materials to which he applies his skill, and from nature's laboratory is poured annually into the channels of trade the materials from which is fed and clothed the teeming millions of the earth. The farmer is a business man: The selling of his surplus is the great paramount source of the world's commerce 'anu trade. He furnishes tons of food annually to feed the nations of the earth. 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.