Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from a ...

Editor’s Notes

The editing of historic writing presents unique challenges. As a guiding editorial principle, the source text has been modified minimally. Spelling and usage have been modernized and regularized as has, to a lesser extent, punctuation. Throughout, earnest efforts have been made to maintain the original feel and flavor of the text, as evident, for example, in the anomalous frequency of semi-colons and capitalization for emphasis of concepts such as “Nature” or “Art.” Original paragraphing has been preserved in nearly every instance where a readily verifiable original text exists. Occasionally, and as noted, related sections or chapters of a given monograph have been combined for the sake of concision and readability. In such instances where organizational clarity made beneficial an umbrella title or grouping, mention has been made either in the introduction to the work(s) or in the footnotes. Elsewhere, and in the interest of making room for a truly diverse digest, chapter excerpts begin, as noted, a specified number of paragraphs from the beginning of the original chapter or section as it appeared in the source edition.