Farm Management (In 2 Volumes)

The business of farming is complex and almost infinitely diverse. At the outset both the observer of its conditions and the collector of its data face variations between the widest extremes not only of soil, water, climate, topography, and size of holdings, but also of individual opinions, experiences, practices, and ideals. In using this text, the reader will bear in mind that the attempt id largely to show the scope of farm management by illustration. This leaves the way open for the replacement of the general illustrative material by more detailed or more recent data clearly applicable to a given region, or even to a given farm. Agriculture varies so throughout the United States that a general text on farm Management must at best, as already indicated, be suggestive rather than final. In teaching and following farm management the need is for basic presentation of method and principle, rather than for the accumulation of facts for local use. The latter is easy but would fill a thousand volumes. That this book will serve a general need is the hope of the author.