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Agriculture   /ˈægrɪkˌəltʃər/   Listen
Agriculture

noun
1.
A large-scale farming enterprise.  Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm.
2.
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock.  Synonyms: farming, husbandry.
3.
The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862.  Synonyms: Agriculture Department, Department of Agriculture, USDA.
4.
The class of people engaged in growing food.



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"Agriculture" Quotes from Famous Books



... nation, or a tribe; and on the source of that food supply they divide nations and tribes into the more or less cultured. In earliest times (and among the rudest tribes to-day) the food supply is furnished entirely by natural means; there is little or no agriculture known to speak of; there is nothing in the way of preserving domestic animals for food; hunting the wild beasts of the forests and fishing in the streams are the two sources. Therefore, we call that last condition the hunting and fishing stage of human development. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 • Various
... accompanied them on these expeditions, and then they had fierce arguments about Ireland, but more often Marsh and Henry went off together, leaving Mr. Quinn behind to ponder over some problem of agriculture or to wrangle with William Henry Matier on what was and what was not a fair day's work. But now, Henry began to scheme to be alone. On the day after he had taken Sheila Morgan to her uncle's farm, he had been so restless and inattentive during his morning's work that ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... must be placed, however, on increasing the pupil's knowledge of present-day conditions in agriculture, commerce, transportation, manufactures, in fact, in all social, economic, and political conditions, in order to enable him by comparison to realize earlier methods and ways of living. The pupil who understands best how we do things to-day can understand ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History • Ontario Ministry of Education
... agriculture. Two lines on ploughing are quoted from 'liber parergon,' i., but it is not certain whether this ...
— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton
... state of want which moves compassion. Out of seven hundred and fifty thousand souls of which the public is composed, if this number remain, it may be taken for certain that there are not fifty thousand who have bread to eat when they want it, and anything to lie upon but straw." Agriculture suffered for lack of money and hands; commerce was ruined; the manufactures established by Colbert no longer existed; the population had diminished more than a quarter since the palmy days of the king's reign; ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot


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