Principles Of Agriculture And Agricultural Experimentation

Author : N. A. Cobb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330160206
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Experiment Work written by N. A. Cobb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Agricultural Experiment Work The following pages have been written in response to a request from the Minister for Agriculture, made at the recent meeting of the experts of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture held at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College. They are more largely directed against the old-fashioned plot system of agricultural experiment, a system which I definitely abandoned in 1875, than would be necessary in a country where the influence of the plot system was less dominant than in Australia. I hope this will be regarded as a Sufficient excuse for the full exposure given in some places of what, to the trained mind, may seem the most obvious fallacies. The manner of experimenting in agriculture is gradually changing - always in the direction of the laboratory; or, perhaps, it would be better to say the laboratory is gradually enlarging its scope so as to include the fields of the farmer, while the conservatory is gradually attaining the dignity of an agricultural laboratory. This change is found to be of the greatest use ill advancing agriculture, and I would fain see these Colonies take a prominent position in hastening this general advance, not merely as a matter of pride in scientific research, but as a just due to their great agricultural resources and growing agricultural importance. Beyond question the glory of this age is its experiment work, and there can be no higher study, and no study of greater economic value, than that devoted to the nature and possibilities of experiment. Unfortunately, this is not yet sufficiently well understood. While it is perfectly true the whole world now-a-days listens with the greatest respect to the theories and projects of almost any supposed scientific authority, knowing as it does that the great advances made in the last hundred years have been very largely due to the unveiling of the laws of nature by men of science while this is perfectly true, there is, sad to tell, another side of the picture; for this very credulity which gives to-day to the true men of science their great opportunity, offers also to the charlatan a rich field of operations. Not until the mass of the people are well grounded in the principles of science can they be expected to take an intelligent view of scientific experiments. To expect them to fully appreciate the nature and value of scientific research is to expect what is impossible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.