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Title: The Rover Boys on the Farm
or Last Days at Putnam Hall

Author: Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)

Release Date: July 28, 2007 [EBook #22163]

Language: English

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THE ROVER BOYS ON THE FARM

OR

_LAST DAYS AT PUTNAM HALL_

BY ARTHUR M. WINFIELD (Edward Stratemeyer)

AUTHOR OF THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL. THE ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEAN, THE
PUTNAM HALL SERIES, Etc.

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

[Illustration: ONE HORSE REARED AND TRIED TO BACK.]

PREFACE.

MY DEAR BOYS: With this I present to you "The Rover Boys on the Farm,"
the twelfth volume in the "Rover Boys Series for Young Americans."

It is a large number of volumes to write about one set of characters,
isn't it? When I started the series, many years ago, I had in mind, as I
have told you before, to pen three books, possibly four. But as soon as
I had written "The Rover Boys at School," "The Rover Boys on the Ocean,"
and "The Rover Boys in the Jungle," there was a cry for more, and so I
wrote "The Rover Boys Out West," "On the Great Lakes," "In the
Mountains," "On Land and Sea," "In Camp," "On the River," "On the
Plains," and then "In Southern Waters," where we last left our heroes.

In the present story, as promised in the last volume, the scene is
shifted back to the farm and to dear old Putnam Hall, with their many
pleasant associations. As before, Sam, Tom and Dick are to the front,
along with