COUNTRY LIFE AND FARMING 9 



Pomology is the science or art of fruit growing. 



Floriculture is the cultivation of plants for use as ornaments. 



Landscape Gardening is the growing and planting of ornamental 

 plants for their uses in mass effects in making up a landscape 

 view. 



Forestry is the growing of timber for lumber and wood, or for 

 producing secondary effects upon any region by modifying the 

 climate or by preserving the water supply for rivers and lakes. 



Animal Industry is the science which treats of the proper manage- 

 ment and feeding of animals for direct use or for the products 

 they furnish. 



Road Building. Good roads are necessary in order that the 

 perishable farm products may be got to market with as little 

 delay and with as little expense as possible. In view of this fact, 

 every farmer should know something about road building and 

 road repairing. 



QUESTIONS 



1. Mention some of the benefits of country life. 



2. What can you say of the advantages of city life? 



3. What objections do you find to city life ? 



4. Discuss the effects of overcrowding in cities. 



5. Why do so many of our young people leave the country for the city ? 



6. Why do some people look upon farming as a degraded calling? 



7. How does the unskillful farmer regard his farm? 



8. How is the land treated by the skillful farmer? 



9. What does farm science include ? 



10. Define agriculture in its restricted sense. 



11. What is horticulture, and what does it include? 



12. Define olericulture, pomology, floriculture, landscape gardening. 



13. What is forestry ? 



14. Define animal industry. 



15. Why should every farmer know something of road building ? 



REFERENCES 



The School and Farm, Eggert. 



Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, Bailey. 



