Excerpt from The Farmer's School Book Children may read and study in the school room what they will practice when they become men. They now read the English Reader, or some other collection that they do not under stand, or feel any interest in; and which, the worst of all, never gives them one useful idea for the practical business of life. 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.