Opis: Agriculture for the Kansas Common Schools (Classic Reprint) - Call Leland Everett

Excerpt from Agriculture for the Kansas Common Schools

When man first began raising plants and caring for animals is not known. It must have been long before the time of the most ancient people of whom we have record. The earliest farming must have been very simple. It consisted probably in scratching up the soil a very little with a stick and planting the seed to grow as best it could, and finally harvesting a small crop of very poor grain or fruit. Men also watched the animals to keep them from straying and from being stolen by other men or killed by wild beasts. After long ages man learned to build inclosures for his live stock and to select the gentler and better animals to increase his herds. This was the first step toward scientific agriculture. Long before Christ was born, men learned to hitch oxen, horses, and camels to rough wooden plows, which tore up and loosened the soil after a fashion. Probably even before this, man had learned to keep the weeds down and to cultivate the soil during the growing season. He also learned to select the better grains and fruits for seed, and travelers sometimes brought home with them the seeds of new plants. Some of the earliest lessons man learned about agriculture were, first, to save the seed from the best plants, and to select the best and gentlest animals to increase his herds; second, how better to till the soil and to guard and feed his animals.

There is no doubt that with such care plants and animals improved greatly.

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Szczegóły: Agriculture for the Kansas Common Schools (Classic Reprint) - Call Leland Everett

Nazwa: Agriculture for the Kansas Common Schools (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Call Leland Everett
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330871843
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 492
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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