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ery. These, in turn, are often infinitely subdivided; and 

 especially has this been the case within the last thirty years, 

 or since the multiplication of Agricultural Societies. 



The breeder is not necessarily the fattener of cattle for 

 market. The grain-farmer may not be either a breeder or 

 feeder, except to a very limited extent. He may confine 

 himself exclusively to the raising of grass for pasturage or 

 hay; or the products from which he derives his revenue 

 may be exclusively grain. The breeder, on the other hand, 

 must raise both hay and grain, in order to enable him to 

 prosecute his business successfully. 



The fruit-grower is seldom engaged in other branches of 

 horticulture, and the florist more rarely still; the veget 

 able gardener is least frequently of all engaged in other hor 

 ticultural pursuits. The landscape gardener alone has to 

 deal with all the branches of the noble profession of horti 

 culture, which has been called &quot; the Eeligion of Agricul 

 ture.&quot; If this metaphor be accepted, floriculture must cer 

 tainly be termed the poetry of horticulture. 



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Since the establishment of agricultural schools in Europe 

 and the United States, the division of agriculture into its 

 multiform sub-industries has been found exceedingly profit 

 able. It is not too much to expect that, as science pro 

 gresses in this direction, its subdivision will become more 

 and more extensive. The day is certainly not far distant 

 when pomology, forestry, floriculture, and many other 

 branches of agriculture, will be more and more distinct 

 ively followed; just as threshing and draining are even now 

 followed as distinct professions. The future is not remote 

 in which steam-plowing, and hauling to the local market by 

 steam, will be accomplished in connection with threshing 



