The Fat of the Land, The Story of an American Farm, by John Williams Streeter. Copyright 1904. John Williams Streeter (1841-1905) isn’t well-represented on the web. He wrote at least 2 other books. This is his first in Project Gutenberg.
It is a semi-autobiographical story of a physician who leaves medicine and starts a farm.
“While you are at home I will give you daily instruction in this most wholesome and independent business, which will be of incalculable benefit to you, and which, I am frank to say, you cannot get in any agricultural college. College, indeed! I have spent thousands of hours in dreaming and planning what a farm should be like! Do you suppose I am going to let these visions become contaminated by practical knowledge?”
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