The Project Gutenberg EBook of Agriculture for Beginners, by
Charles William Burkett and Frank Lincoln Stevens and Daniel Harvey Hill

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Agriculture for Beginners
Revised Edition

Author: Charles William Burkett
Frank Lincoln Stevens
Daniel Harvey Hill

Release Date: March 8, 2007 [EBook #20772]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS ***

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.
This file is gratefully uploaded to the PG collection in
honor of Distributed Proofreaders having posted over
10,000 ebooks.

AGRICULTURE FOR
BEGINNERS

BY

CHARLES WILLIAM BURKETT

EDITOR OF THE _AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST_
FORMERLY DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

FRANK LINCOLN STEVENS

PROFESSOR OF PLANT PATHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
FORMERLY TEACHER OF SCIENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL
COLUMBUS, OHIO

AND

DANIEL HARVEY HILL

FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF
AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS

_REVISED EDITION_

GINN AND COMPANY
BOSTON . NEW YORK . CHICAGO . LONDON
ATLANTA . DALLAS . COLUMBUS . SAN FRANCISCO

COPYRIGHT, 1903, 1904, 1914, BY
CHARLES WILLIAM BURKETT, FRANK LINCOLN STEVENS AND DANIEL HARVEY HILL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
329.7

The Athenaeum Press
GINN AND COMPANY . PROPRIETORS . BOSTON . U.S.A.

[Illustration: GETTING READY FOR WINTER]

PREFACE

Since its first publication "Agriculture for Beginners" has found a
welcome in thousands of schools and homes. Naturally many suggestions as
to changes, additions, and other improvements have reached its authors.
Naturally, too, the authors have busied themselves in devising methods
to add to the effectiveness of the book. Some additions have been made
almost every year since the book was published. To embody all these
changes and helpful suggestions into a strictly unified volume; to add
some further topics and sections; to bring all farm prac