Welcome to another episode of Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid.

We read aloud boring public domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.

This time we’ll be exploring Agriculture for Beginners, by Burkett, Stevens and Hill, first published in 1903. Today, few of us work in agriculture, the profession that keeps us alive and yet we take for granted.

The information contained herein may be the most valuable to humankind ever assembled in one book, unless we intend to go back to being hunters and gatherers, and there are no Pringles in that world, so forget it.

That doesn’t mean it’s not boring—there is an entire chapter on Feed Stuffs and seven pages on the Cotton-Boll Weevil. My eyelids are already drooping. A listener in California writes, “Now I am suffering from somnia,” and perhaps you will be, too.

Let us get to it, then.

This recording will end quietly.

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