text:  We have satisfied ourselves that by carefully _examining_ the contents of this one book we should be prepared not merely to pass an examination but actually to undertake the office of public examiner in any or all of the several crafts and mysteries of the farm-builder the weather-seer the hedge-planter the ditcher the drainer the ploughman the cattle-feeder the stock-buyer the drover the pig-killer the fat cattle seller the butcher the miller and the grieve or general overseer of the farm