INTRODUCTION 



AGRICULTURE is the Science, the Art and the Technique 

 of supplying human wants from the products of the soil. 

 This does not exactly correspond with the old definition, 

 but is a readjustment to meet the needs of its modern 

 application. The Latin word "agri," meaning field, 

 and "horti," garden, have long since outgrown their use- 

 fulness as a definition for present-day Agriculture or 

 Horticulture. The tendency now is to increase the scope 

 of the word Agriculture to include the Art, the Science, 

 and the Technique of everything pertaining to farm 

 products, and to delimit the meaning of Horticulture 

 within narrower and narrower bounds. 



Formerly, Agriculture was considered to be the grow- 

 ing of crops. When this was accomplished, the farmer's 

 results were turned over to another set of people to dis- 

 pose of as they saw fit. Later, along with production, 

 was considered the problems of distribution, and Agri- 

 culture expanded to include this work. Now, the mar- 

 keting of farm products is everywhere considered as a 

 legitimate part of Agriculture. 



The trend of the present leaders in the profession is 

 to go one step farther and include in modern Agricul- 



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