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Excerpt from Old Days on the FarmIT may be recalled that Josh Billings in his famous essay, What I Kno about Pharming, makes this open confession: What I know about pharmin' iz kussid little. But there are few like the humorous essayist. Ever since the first pioneer felled the first tree in the forest primeval, there has been a crowd eagerly anxious to mount the stamp and tell the farmer how to farm. If a man plants a hill of cucumbers in his backyard, or, as a boy, has helped herd the potato bug off the family patch, it just seems that he cannot restrain himself from telling the fellow in the furrowed fields how to make farming pay. This book does not give advice to farmers. Advice is the cheapest thing in the world, and so there is a price on this volume. Having driven the cows across the mead ows sweet with clover, carried the cool grey jug to the harvest field of other days, and ploughed with an old ox-team, I had to struggle heroically to keep myself out of the armchair agriculturist class. But like Paul of old, I feel I have fought a good fight and won.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Old Days on the FarmIT may be recalled that Josh Billings in his famous essay, What I Kno about Pharming, makes this open confession: What I know about pharmin' iz kussid little. But there are few like the humorous essayist. Ever since the first pioneer felled the first tree in the forest primeval, there has been a crowd eagerly anxious to mount the stamp and tell the farmer how to farm. If a man plants a hill of cucumbers in his backyard, or, as a boy, has helped herd the potato bug off the family patch, it just seems that he cannot restrain himself from telling the fellow in the furrowed fields how to make farming pay. This book does not give advice to farmers. Advice is the cheapest thing in the world, and so there is a price on this volume. Having driven the cows across the mead ows sweet with clover, carried the cool grey jug to the harvest field of other days, and ploughed with an old ox-team, I had to struggle heroically to keep myself out of the armchair agriculturist class. But like Paul of old, I feel I have fought a good fight and won.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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