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 “agrt,”’ 
meaning field, 
and ‘‘hortt,’’ 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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