CHAPTER II. 



AGRICULTURE AND ITS SUBDIVISIONS. 



WHAT AGRICULTURE EMBRACES. 



Agriculture, in its broad sense, embraces husbandry, or 

 the art of cultivating the soil and obtaining therefrom its 

 increase in the shape of cereals and grasses ; stock-breed 

 ing, and the feeding and fattening of the domestic animals ; 

 and all that pertains to the making and applying of ma 

 nures, to draining, and, in general, to all other processes 

 which go to increase the productive capacity of the soil. 



Agriculture also includes the sub-industry of horticul 

 ture, which again is subdivided into vegetable gardening, 

 floriculture, pomology, or the cultivation of fruits ; arbori 

 culture, or the cultivation of timber ; forestry, or the con 

 servation and culture of forests ; and landscape gardening, 

 or the beautifying of natural, or creation of artificial, scen- 

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