FARMING AS A PROFESSION; OR, HOW CHARLES LORING MADE IT PAY.
BYT. A. BLAND,
Editor North Western Farmer.LORING, Publisher, BOSTON: 319 WASHINGTON STREET.
1870.Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by T. A. BLAND, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Indiana.
INTRODUCTION.
IN clothing the truths contained in the following story in the garb of romance, the author has had but one leading object in view, viz., to present in the lives of Charles Loring and his wife Stella, a picture which, although rare, is yet real, and in all its essential features possible to every intelligent and earnest young couple similarly situated, and to inspire such to choose farming as a profession, and thus elevate and dignify that noble, useful and time-honored calling. In the measure of my success in this direction, will my reward come, in the consciousness of having benefited my fellow-farmers, and given an humble tribute to the profession it has ever been my pleasure to honor.
T. A. B.
