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IT is now about five and twenty years since research and educational work in agriculture began to be developed seriously in this country. Since that date a very great deal of effort has been expended in investigating the forces by which plant and animal life are controlled, and in bringing natural science to bear in every way upon the problems of food production. Work along these lines has been productive of most valuable results to the farmer; but at the same time the fact has been overlooked that, when all is said, farming is a business, and if it is to succeed as such it must be carried on with a clear regard for the economic forces which control the industry. So, whilst desiring nothing but the fullest recognition of work in the fields of natural science applied to the investigation of farming problems, I must express without any qualification the view that the equal importance of the study of these economic forces has never been adequately recognised.
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Abridged from the presidential address delivered to Section M (Agriculture) of the British Association at Edinburgh on September 12.
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ORWIN, C. The Study of Agricultural Economics1. Nature 108, 501–505 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108501a0
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