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Title: Agricultural Class Book; or, How Best to Cultivate a Small Farm and Garden: Together with Hints on Domestic Economy
Description: Dublin, Commissioners of national Education in Ireland. 1849. hardcover. Stamp on Title page - "By grant from the Committee of Council on Education". From the Preface: "In the following pages the object has been, to explain, in as simple language as possible, the best mode of managing a small farm and kitchen garden. In pointing out the errors of the old system, it has been sought to save the farmer from the great losses consequent on a pursuance of it. The marked inattention to habits of tidiness and cleanliness, so lamentably apparent in the Irish peasantry. has rendered it desireable to devote some chapters to domestic economy. The narrative form has been selected as the best calculated to awaken and arrest the attention of the young learner. The small farmer has been chosen as an example, solely because such holdings are the most general among the parents of the class for whom this work was written, that this each child might be shown how much improvement could be effected in that portion of lans his father occupied." Some age spotting but text is entirely legible. Binding appears to have been designed for robustness and a Kerryman's pocket so, although showing considerable signs of wear, continues to do its job effectively. Good/No Dust Jacket.

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