Four thousand farmers

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We have had few great agricultural travelers and few books that describe the real and significant rural conditions.
Of natural history travel we have had very much; and of accounts of sights and events perhaps we have had too
many. There are, to be sure, famous books of study and travel in rural regions, and some of them, as Arthur
Young's "Travels in France," have touched social and political history; but for the most part, authorship of
agricultural travel is yet undeveloped. The spirit of scientific inquiry must now be taken into this field, and all
earth−conquest must be compared and the results be given to the people that work.
This was the point of view in which I read Professor King's manuscript. It is the writing of a well−trained
observer who went forth not to find diversion or to depict scenery and common wonders, but to study the actual
conditions of life of agricultural peoples. We in North America are wont to think that we may instruct all the
world in agriculture, because

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