Excerpt from The Business Side of AgricultureFrom the opening years of the nineteenth century, when chemistry was utilised in solving some of the problems of the farm, down to the present day there have not been wanting men of science who have applied their learning for the benefit of agriculture. Some have investigated the nature and properties of the soil, or the life-history of the plants that grow in it, others have studied the beneficent and harmful micro-organisms, and the place they take in the economy of agriculture, while the researches of students of natural history have added enormously to the volume of information that a cultivator of the soil and a rearer of cattle ought to possess.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.