Study & Master Agricultural Sciences Grade 12 has been especially developed by an experienced author team for the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). This new and easy-to-use course helps learners to master essential content and skills in Agricultural Sciences. The comprehensive Learner's Book includes an expanded contents page indicating the CAPS coverage required for each topic, activities that help develop learners' knowledge and skills, revision tasks and a review at the end of each module that provides for consolidation of learning, case studies that link science to real-life situations and present balanced views on sensitive issues, 'Information' boxes providing interesting additional information and 'Note' boxes that bring important information to the learner's attention. Glossary boxes explain unfamiliar and difficult terms.

It was the night after the funeral. Ellice Lisle, the loving wife, devoted mother, kind mistress, and generous friend, had been laid away to rest; over her pulseless bosom had been thrown the red earth of her adopted Virginia, and, mingled with its mocking freshness, was the bitter rain of tears from the eyes of all who had known the lowly sleeper. Even Nature joined the general weeping; for, though the early morning had been bright and beautiful, ere the mourners' feet had left the new-made grave, the skies had lowered, and a gentle rain descended. "You have pity upon me, O Heaven, and you weep for me, O earth," had exclaimed Duncan Stuart Lisle, as, leading his little Hubert by the hand, he turned away from his lost Ellice. As night deepened, the rain increased, and the darkness became intense. The house-servants, timid and superstitious, had all congregated in Aunt Amy's cabin. Amidst their grief, sincere and profound, was yet a subject of indignation, which acted as a sort of safety-valve to their over-much sorrowing.

'Mid the New England hills, and beneath the shadow of their dim old woods, is a running brook whose deep waters were not always as merry and frolicsome as now; for years before our story opens, pent up and impeded in their course, they dashed angrily against their prison walls, and turned the creaking wheel of an old sawmill with a sullen, rebellious roar. The mill has gone to decay, and the sturdy men who fed it with the giant oaks of the forest are sleeping quietly in the village graveyard. The waters of the mill-pond, too, relieved from their confinement, leap gayly over the ruined dam, tossing for a moment in wanton glee their locks of snow-white foam, and then flowing on, half fearfully as it were, through the deep gorge overhung with the hemlock and the pine, where the shadows of twilight ever lie, and where the rocks frown gloomily down upon the stream below, which, emerging from the darkness, loses itself at last in the waters of the gracefully winding Chicopee, and leaves far behind the moss-covered walls of what is familiarly known as the "Old House by the Mill."

Ken & Verstaan Landbouwetenskappe Graad 12 is deur 'n ervare span onderwysers geskryf, ooreenkomstig die vereistes van die Kurrikulum- en Assesseringsbeleidsverklaring (KABV). Hierdie nuwe en toeganklike reeks sal leerders help om die inhoud van en vaardighede vir Landbouwetenskappe baas te raak. Die omvattende Leerdersboek bied 'n uitgebreide inhoudsblad wat uiteensit hoe die KABV in elke eenheid gedek word, assesseringstake en 'n oorsig aan die einde van elke module wat leerders help om kennis te konsolideer, gevallestudies wat wetenskap met die alledaagse lewe verbind en sensitiewe kwessies op 'n gebalanseerde wyse aanspreek, flitse in die kantlyn met interessante en belangrike inligting, 'n omvattende woordelys wat onbekende en moeilike terme help verduidelik.