Excerpt from The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac for the Year 1881: Containing Practical Suggestions for the Farmer and Horticulturist HE illustrated annual register OF rural affairs has now reached its twenty-seventh year, under the continuous Editorial charge of Mr. John J. Thomas, to whose thorough practical knowledge of the various topics it has em braced, with assistance from other accomplished writers on special subjects, its readers c thave been indebted for the most comprehensive and concise series of papers in the differ c'ent branches of Rural Economy, within the whole range of our agricultural literature. The profuse illustrations from the pencil of the Editor, by which they are accompanied, give (special attractiveness and value to the work, for which most of them are especially drawn and engraved; and the reading matter is wholly from the manuscript of the authors, and original, except to the limited extent in which it is expressly stated to be a condensation 'from the writings of others. 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.