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Excerpt from Thirteenth Annual Report of the New Jersey Board of Agriculture, 1885 With many of our farmers book farming and experimental farming are looked upon with disfavor. Some of our farmers believe in the old ways of doing the same things their fathers did before them, in following the same rules their fathers did in their manner and time of planting, in the rotation of their cr0ps, in the seeding and in the har vesting, and they cannot believe that there can be any good derived' from books and experimental farming. Fortunately for the farmers and for the great agricultural indus tries those mistaken ideas are passing away, and with the enlighten ment and the intelligence of the age new ideas have grown up among them, and people have begun to learn that sometimes by experiment ing and by what has been written on the subject of agriculture much benefit to the industry could be obtained. The gathering here to-day I construe as indicating a great change in the sentiments of the farming community, which is not only of importance to themselves and to this Board, but of importance also to the great industrial interests of agriculture throughout this and our sister States. 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.