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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



... arts of cookery and of grinding may increase or facilitate the nourishment of mankind, the great source of it is from agriculture. In the savage state, where men live solely by hunting, I was informed by Dr. Franklin, that there was seldom more than one family existed in a circle of five miles diameter; which in a state of pasturage would ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... Prometheus has exercised his eternal influence upon the thought of men. In this form of the legend he appears constantly living and striving for man's sake as the foe of God. We hear of him making men and women of clay and animating them with celestial fire, teaching them the arts of agriculture, the taming of horses, and the uses of plants. Again we hear of Zeus, wearied with the race of men—the new divinity making a clean sweep, and wishing to begin with better material. Zeus is the lover of strength ...
— Among Famous Books • John Kelman
... agriculture embrace most intentional human efforts to control biological activity so as to produce plants and animals of the sort wanted, when wanted. Rubber plantations, cattle ranches, vegetable gardens, dairy farms, tree ...
— Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology • John T. Schlebecker
... of treatment can be determined without cost, by submitting specimens of affected portions of the plant for analysis and advice to the State Agricultural Experiment Station or to the United States Department of Agriculture. ...
— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison
... is notorious that the savages knew nothing of agriculture when first discovered by the Europeans, but lived a most vagabond, disorderly, unrighteous life, rambling from place to place, and prodigally rioting upon the spontaneous luxuries of nature, without tasking her generosity to yield them anything more; whereas it has ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving


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