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 .
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 .