292 THE PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURE 



Following are some questions that might 

 be asked on this introduction in order to bring 

 out the various points involved. These outlines 

 and questions may suggest how all the chapters 

 in the book may be handled with some degree 

 of satisfaction: 



1. What is agriculture? Is it the same as farming? As 

 husbandry? What are crops? What is stock? What are direct 

 and indirect products of the laud? 



2. Is marketing a part of agriculture? Define primary and 

 secondary products. Contrast agriculture and manufacture. 



3. What does agriculture contribute to the world? Is agri- 

 culture the most important of all arts? 



4. What is an ideal husbandry? What is mixed husbandry 

 and what specialty husbandry? Which most completely maintains 

 itself? 



5. Define animal industry, horticulture, forestry. What re- 

 lation do these bear to agriculture? How is forestry popularly 

 misunderstood? 



6. Is the farmer a business man? Why is executive ability 

 important? What is meant by personality and how important is 

 it to the farmer? Can executive ability be gained wholly from 

 books? 



7. What do you understand by the term farm-practice? What 

 is the value of one's own experience? 



8. What are staple and special products? How are prices 

 made for these two classes of products? Which class is the more 

 important in the agriculture of your region? 



9. Name two reasons why a knowledge of natural science is 

 helpful to the farmer. 



10. Discuss the relation of physics to agriculture. Of me- 

 chanics. Of botany. Of zoology. Of chemistry. Of climatology. 

 Of geology. Explain what you mean by each of these terms. 



11. Give some illustration of how complicated the business of 

 agriculture is. 



