1 In such States, accordingly, we see wealth multiply, both that which comes from agriculture and that which comes from manufactures.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. 2 The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
3 We found that the most of our students came from the country districts, where agriculture in some form or other was the main dependence of the people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VIII. 4 We learned that about eighty-five per cent of the coloured people in the Gulf states depended upon agriculture for their living.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VIII. 5 Our next effort was in the direction of increasing the cultivation of the land, so as to secure some return from it, and at the same time give the students training in agriculture.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IX. 6 He had been able to do this by reason of his knowledge of the chemistry of the soil and by his knowledge of improved methods of agriculture.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIII. 7 Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIV. 8 The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVI. 9 While the students are at work upon the land and in erecting buildings, they are taught, by competent instructors, the latest methods of agriculture and the trades connected with building.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVII. 10 And so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in agriculture.
11 He was writing now a new chapter on the causes of the present disastrous condition of agriculture in Russia.
12 Sviazhsky began talking of Levin, describing his strange view that machinery is simply pernicious in its effects on Russian agriculture.
13 And to do this, just as it was necessary to cook dinner, it was necessary to keep the mechanism of agriculture at Pokrovskoe going so as to yield an income.
14 There were no hedges, no signs of proprietary rights, no evidences of agriculture; the whole earth had become a garden.
15 After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of to-day are still in the rudimentary stage.