The Letter People The Letter People The Letter People is a children's literacy program and the television series based on that program. The term also refers to the various characters depicted in the program and television show. Elayne Reiss-Weimann and Rita Friedman originally created the concept of Letter People to teach beginning readers how to "decode" or "sound out" the consonants and vowels that form words. They embodied the basic rules of phonics into stories about these make-believe characters called Letter People. Each letter of the alphabet had a distinct characteristic to help children learn not only the letter but the sound the
The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry citations from that work. In the preface of the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of Agriculture", John Claudius Loudon (1825) ranked "The Complete Farmer" among the foremost publications on rural matters of the early 19th century. According to Loudon: The subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions; the improvement and general management of landed property, which may be termed Territorial Economy; and the cultivation and treatment of its more useful animal and vegetable productions, which is called Husbandry, or Agriculture in a more limited sense of the term." "The Complete Farmer" embraced both of these departments. Loudon describes this