INTRODUCTION 1 1 



SUGGESTIONS ON THE FOREGOING PARAGRAPHS 



la. The word agriculture is a compound of the Latin agri, 

 "field," and cultura, "tilling." Farming and husbandry are 

 synonymous with it, when used in their broadest sense ; but there 

 is a tendency to restrict these two words to the immediate prac- 

 tice, or practical side, of agriculture. 



2a. It is often difficult to draw a line of demarkation between 

 agriculture and manufacture. The husbandmen is often both 

 farmer and manufacturer. Manufacturing which is done on the 

 farm, and is of secondary importance to the raising of crops or 

 stock, is commonly spoken of as agriculture. The manipulation 

 or manufacturing of some agricultural products requires such 

 special skill and appliances that it becomes a business by itself, 

 and is then manufacture proper. Thus, the making of flour is 

 no longer thought of as agriculture; and the making of wine, 

 jellies, cheese, butter, canned fruits, and the like, is coming more 

 and more into the category of special manufacturing industries. 

 Strictly speaking, agriculture stops at the factory door. 



3. Agriculture is often said to be the most fundamental and 

 useful of occupations, since it feeds the world. Theoretically, 

 this may be true ; but a high state of civilization is possible only 

 with diversification of interests. As civilization advances, there- 

 fore, other occupations rise in relative importance, the one de- 

 pending upon the other. In our modern life, agriculture is 

 impossible without the highly developed manufacturing and trans- 

 portational trades. Broadly speaking, civilization may be said to 

 rest upon agriculture, transportation, and manufacture. 



4it. Mixed husbandry is a term used to denote the growing of 

 a general variety of farm crops and stock, especially the growing 

 of grass, grain, with grazing (pasturing) and general stock-rais- 

 ing. It is used in distinction to specialty-farming or the raising 

 of particular or special things, as fruit, bees, vegetables, beef, 

 eggs. 



4b. Self-perpetuating industries conduce to stability of 

 political and social institutions. "The epochs which precede 

 the agricultural occupation of a country are commonly about as 



