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CALIFORNIA. 



MANUAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



1. Agriculture is the art of cultivating the earth. It 

 includes whatever is necessary for finding out the nature 

 of the soil, clearing up the land, rendering it healthy, 

 and preparing it for tillage, and ploughing it, and the 

 sowing, weeding and harvesting the crops. 



2. The object of agriculture should be to enrich the 

 earth, and make it produce the largest crops, of the 

 greatest value, at the least expense of land, time, and 

 labor. 



3. In order to attain this object, the husbandman must 

 have capital, that is, money, for the necessary expen 

 ditures ; labor, or hands for the operations required ; 

 knowledge of the best ways of working ; and intelligence, 

 in order to direct the application of the capital and 

 labor. 



4. A complete farm ought to have woodland, pasture 

 land, meadow or grass land, arable land, an orchard, a 

 garden spot, and space for roads. 



It should have a farmer s house, a barn or stable for 

 horses, oxen, sheep, and swine, and for crops, a tool- 



