Complex sentence: The volume is full of practical good sense, and exhibits a thorough knowledge of home and foreign agricultural economy; and in the handling of the subject is everywhere shown the special power which its author possessed of making what he wrote interesting as well as instructive.
Split into simpler sentences: The volume is full of practical good sense, and exhibits a thorough knowledge of home and foreign agricultural economy. The handling of the subject shows the special power which its author possessed of making what he wrote interesting as well as instructive.