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stations, ill wliich the general licM of ap:riculture 

 has been tlividcd into various si)ecial subjects. 



7. Animal industry is tlie raising of animals, 

 either for direct sale or use or for their pro- 

 «lucts. It is customary to sjx'ak of it as com- 

 prising three deiiartmcnts: stock-rai-^ing, or the 

 general growing of mammals, as cattle, horses, 

 sheep; «laii'y husbandry, ov the production of 

 milk and milk products; poultry- raising, or tlie 

 growing of fowls, as chickens, turkeys, geese, 

 chicks. In its largest sense, it comprises other de- 

 partments, as apiculture or bee-raising, fish-cul- 

 ture, ostreaculture or oyster- raising, and the like, 



8. Forestry is the growing of timber and 

 wootls. Its objects are two : to obtain a sala- 

 ble product ; to produce some secondary effect 

 upon the region, as the modification of climate 

 or the i»rescrvation of the water-supply to rivers 

 and lakes. 



0. Horticulture is the growing of fruits, 

 kitchen - garden vegetables, and ornamental 

 plants. It lias been divided into four <lepart- 

 raents : pomolog}', or fruit-growing ; olericul- 

 ture, or vegetal)!*' -gardening ; fioiiculture, or 

 the growing of fiowers and plants for their own 

 or individual uses as moans of ornament; land- 

 scape horticulture, or the growing and ])'anting 

 of ornamental plants for their uses in mass 

 etTects in the landscape (ou the lawn). 



