Agriculture

Examples

• In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. Plato. The Republic.
• My Inglese frend tell to me afterwards dat Inglant is most célébere fore her agriculture! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Concurrently with this change of ownership there was going on a great improvement in agriculture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its agriculture, manufactures, and trade, on the contrary, the annual produce of its land and labour, have evidently been augmented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Agriculture is the proper business of all new colonies; a business which the cheapness of land renders more advantageous than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The grazing of the primitive Aryan was far more important to him than his agriculture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not only was her agriculture thereby threatened with a great decrease in crop production but her supply of military explosives was also threatened. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was giving Harriet information as to modes of agriculture, etc. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But the relative values of those two different species of food, bread and butcher's meat, are very different in the different periods of agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Agriculture made possible by irrigation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• With the beginnings of agriculture a fresh set of ideas arose in men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Agriculture, therefore, can support itself under the discouragement of a confined market much better than manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Typist: Ronald