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CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



1. The word AGRICULTURE is derived from two Latin word*, 

 AOER, a Field, and CULTURA, Cultivating or Tittiny. It there 

 fore means, strictly, The working of tlie soil; but is now used 

 to describe every process connected with Farming. 



2. Agriculture may be divided into (a,) growing of grains ; 

 of edible plants ; of oil bearing plants ; of vegetables used -in 

 dying, &c.; (b,) of grasses; (c,) breeding of stock; (d,) fat 

 tening of stock ; (e&amp;gt;) producing wool ; (f,) manufacture of cheeae 

 tend butter; (g,) cultivation of fruit; (h,) of vegetables and 

 flowers; (i,) viticulture, (or the culture of the grapevine,) and 

 wine making ; (j t ) Planting, or the production of cotton, rice , 

 augar, tobacco, &c, And, in Europe, to the above are added, 

 (k,) forest matters; (I,) manufacture of beet sugar; (m,) tl 

 j&amp;gt;roduction of silk ; and of some other minor articles. 



3. Any of these processes may be pursued by itself; though, 

 in most instances, it is found profitable to include more than one 

 of the above divisions on the same farm. In this respect, agri 

 culture differs from manufactures; the latter becoming mow 

 profitable as the division of labor becomes more simple, 



4* Agriculture is an ART, which, to be truly understood, 

 pequires the study of many SCIENCES. 



AEJ is the application of knowledge to practical parpoees. Scienet is 

 a knowledge of the principles of Art. If the knowledge be merely ae- 



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