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stations, in which the general field of agriculture 

 has been divided into various special subjects. 



7. Animal industry is the raising of animals, 

 either for direct sale or use or for their pro- 

 ducts. It is customary to speak of it as com- 

 prising three departments: stock-raising, or the 

 general growing of mammals, as cattle, horses, 

 sheep; dairy husbandry, or the production of 

 milk and milk products; poultry -raising, or the 

 growing of fowls, as chickens, turkeys, geese, 

 ducks. 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 

 woods. 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 preservation of the water-supply to rivers 

 and lakes. 



9. Horticulture is the growing of fruits, 

 kitchen - garden vegetables, and ornamental 

 plants. It has been divided into four depart- 

 ments : pomology, or fruit-growing ; olericul- 

 ture, or vegetable - gardening ; floriculture, or 

 the growing of flowers and plants for their own 

 or individual uses as means of ornament; land- 

 scape horticulture, or the growing and planting 

 of ornamental plants for their uses in mass 

 effects in the landscape (on the lawn). 



