Agricultural
[æɡrɪ'kʌltʃərəl] or [,ægrɪ'kʌltʃərəl]
Definition
(adj.) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming; 'agricultural engineering'; 'modern agricultural (or farming) methods'; 'agricultural (or farm) equipment'; 'an agricultural college' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.
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Examples
- Next appeared Arthur Young, of England, born in 1741, whose life was extended into the 19th century, and to whom the world was greatly indebted for the spread of agricultural knowledge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Agricultural methods also have been modified by the compression pump. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But most had flails obtained from the store of Don Guillermo Martin, who was a fascist and sold all sorts of agricultural implements. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now the introduction of reaping and mowing machines, and other improved agricultural machinery, is not opposed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- No other agricultural crop commands such universal attention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The science of agriculture and agricultural chemistry, for instance, made quite parallel advances during the nineteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It had itself neither the area, the agricultural possibilities, nor the mineral wealth to be important. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those agricultural systems, on the contrary, really, and in the end, discourage their own favourite species of industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He reads the Agricultural Reports, and some other books that lay in one of the window seatsbut he reads all _them_ to himself. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Many irrigating systems use centrifugal pumps to force water over long distances and to supply it in quantities sufficient for vast agricultural needs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- French Revolution and Agricultural Chemistry. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- From this arose pressing and baling machines of a great variety, until nearly every agricultural product that can be pressed, packed or baled has its special machine for that operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Henry of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station we are enabled to present full instructions in regard to constructing and filling a silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is due to his discoveries and publications, combined with those of the eminent men on the continent, above referred to, that agricultural chemistry arose to the dignity of a science. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1836 Hussey was invited by the Maryland Agricultural Society for the Eastern Shore to exhibit his machine before them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For information as to the results of future experiments with ensilage we refer the reader to the various State Agricultural Experiment Stations and the authorities here quoted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In the United States, approximately two fifths of the land area is so dry as to be worthless for agricultural purposes unless artificially watered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He devoted frequent and long journeys to obtaining information on agricultural subjects, and his writings attracted the attention and assistance of the learned everywhere. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He proposed to use this new wealth to provide seed, stock, and agricultural implements for the resettlement of the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the Vienna Exposition, in 1873, was held, a great advance was shown in this and all other classes of agricultural machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The high lands are used for grazing purposes, and rich agricultural lands are found in many of the valleys. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Agricultural societies and boards were a characteristic product of the eighteenth century in Europe and America. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When his agricultural researches were finished he went back to his studies with the voltaic pile or battery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There may be some ground for the supposition that he became partner in a business in agricultural produce. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor yet by reason of a knowledge which cultivates the earth; that would give the city the name of agricultural? Plato. The Republic.
- A fear of driving people out of employment led them to make war upon new agricultural machines and their inventors, as they had upon weaving and spinning inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I have said that the West is still moved by the tapering impulse of the pioneer, and I have ventured to predict that this would soon dwindle into an agricultural toryism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Moreover, forests accumulate and protect soil and so prepare the possibility of agricultural life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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