Excerpt from The Man With the A Picture of American Farm Life as It Is to-DayA settled conviction has come to this individual that the farmer ought to have a book of his very own, and that the title of that book could only be The Man with the Hoe. The serial under this title had appealed to farmers. Many of them had asked for it in book form. The author felt that they ought to be gratified. So here, after long delay, is the book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.