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Excerpt from Essays on Agriculture As indicated above, the general purpose of this col lection of essays is quite in keeping with the aims of other books Of model selections for use in composition, and the editors feel safe in taking for granted that the instructor has a close familiarity with the specimen method. The study of composition through the analysis and imitation of effective pieces of style has had such vogue of late years, that material selected for such study takes its place immediately as an integral part of any practical course in writing. The essays in the present collection may be studied with a View to imitation from the standpoint of both form and content. The principles which underlie successful organization in writing may here be seen in operation. Systematic rhetoric is not to be decried; rather, it is presupposed, but the editors of Essays on Agricul ture believe that the student of composition is not unlike the student of engineering, in that he learns a great deal when given an opportunity to hear the hum of machinery and to watch the actual wheels go round. In addition to serving as examples of effective writing, the essays furnish an invaluable source for discussions and for stimulation of thought. They pro vide an extensive fund of laboratory material for oral and written discussion. 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.

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