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FARMING is a complex business. It embraces a greater variety of objects and interests than any other industrial pursuit. Its two great ends are the production of crops and the production of animals. It is among the oldest occupations of man. Its history has been very peculiar. In our own day the system of farming pursued by the great bulk of occupiers of land is far behind the state of agricultural knowledge; and many of the practices of the most enlightened of our farmers are based on empirical data. Various agencies have been proposed for promoting agricultural progress. For the instruction of the mass we must look chiefly to the diffusion of agricultural knowledge through the medium of ordinary schools and colleges, as was pointed out some time ago in NATURE. For further progress in the acquisition of accurate knowledge we must look chiefly to experimental investigations.
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BALDWIN, T. Scientific Agriculture . Nature 13, 101–102 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/013101a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/013101a0