Excerpt from Elementary Agriculture for Alberta Schools The Uses of Land. Agriculture in a broad sense is the use of the soil for the production of plants and animals that are useful to man. The most common use of the word agriculture is that in which it stands for the production of field cr0ps such as grains, grasses, and roots. By extension it is taken to include the breeding and care of live-stock for work or for the production of meat and milk on the products of cultivation. This is called mixed farming or general farming. The special production of milk is called dairy farming. The grazing of stock over Wide areas with a minimum of cultivation is called ranching. It may be concerned with horses, cattle, or sheep, and so is called horse-ranching, catt.le sheep-ranching. 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.