General View 3 



after him. The farm is an establishment in itself in which the 

 good countryman has pride and into which he puts his best 

 efforts as a man. 



Farmers too often live and farm according to rules and 

 methods established by their forefathers, and such persons often 

 fail to profit by the discoveries and methods of modern agri- 

 culture. If North America is to maintain its place in feeding 

 and clothing its own population and in adding to the supply 

 of other countries, the farmers of the future must be thor- 

 oughly trained to their occupation. 



3. Divisions of agriculture. Agriculture is grouped into 

 crop husbandry, animal husbandry, and agricultural manu- 

 facture. Crop husbandry is subdivided into grain-growing, 

 fruit-growing, fiber-crop production, forestry, floriculture, 

 and other branches. Animal husbandry includes dairy pro- 

 duction, beef-raising, sheep-raising, swine-raising, poultry- 

 raising, and bee-keeping. The manufacture of agricultural 

 products deals with butter-making, cheese-making, ice-cream 

 making, the manufacture of evaporated milk and evaporated 

 fruits, and the home weaving of cotton and other textiles into 

 thread and cloth. Naturally these groups and subdivisions 

 overlap and individual farmers often produce many kinds of 

 farm crops and manufactured products, and raise live-stock 

 as well. For example, a farmer may be a fruit-grower and a 

 poultryman, a dairyman and a manufacturer of butter and 

 cheese, a grain-grower and a producer of both beef and grain. 

 Or he may be a specialist and produce only one kind of crop. 

 Thus he may be a market-gardener and not grow enough grain 

 to feed his own teams, or a fruit-grower exclusively, or a poultry- 

 man who has only a few acres and buys all the feed for his fowls. 

 The scientific principles of agriculture apply equally to many 

 kinds of farming. As examples, the considerations underlying 

 soil improvement relate as well to grain-growing as to fruit 

 or vegetable production, the principles of nutrition are as 

 important to the farmer producing beef cattle as to the dairy- 



