The Principles and Practice of Agriculture Systematically Explained
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ISBN13: 9780217633123
Paperback|9780217633123
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ver after, or at lead for many years, continue to grow Vegetables and flourifli without care or labour. It does not appear, however, that in any nation of ancient or modern times, forefts of fruit-bearing trees have been reared with a view to afford fubfiftence to the community. For this two reafons may be afligned. In the firft place, a con- fiderable number of years muft elapfe, before fuch plants becaufe could arrive at maturity, and fulfil the purpofe of their nTwiy.Ind deftination. Of whatever ufe, therefore, they might be rcdeftroy- to future ages, it is evident that they could afford little benefit to the generation which planted them. But in a queftion about fubfiftence, mankind are ufually under the neceflity of confidering their own immediate wants, and hence they have been led to the cultivation of fuch plants, as afford the mod fpeedy reward for the efforts of their induftry. Another reafon for preferring the culture of finall annual plants, to the greater and more permanent productions of nature, would arife, in the early ages of the world, from the turbulent ftate of fociety and the frequency of wars. A community that mould depend for its fubfiftence upon the fruit of foreft trees, might be ruined for half a century by the inroad of an enemy. An example of this was exhibited in the war between Great Britain and her North American colo nies. When the parent ftate hired the favages on the weftern frontier, to join her party and to make inroads upon the colonifts, the latter retaliated upon the favages in the following manner. Several of the colonies united In fending an expedition againft the Indians. The bodies of militia employed upon this expedition, were furprifed to find fmall corn fields around a confiderable number of the Indian hamlets. They were not fatisfied ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217633123 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217633129 |
| Weight | 1.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $24.76 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 332 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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