| dc.description | The author presents an academic discussion of he deemed more less a pseudo-science - agriculture. He writes, "The great fulcrum upon which agriculture rests is anchored by three foundation stones laid by man. They are science and engineering, education and management. Through science and engineering new facts, new ideas, new principles, new materials, and new machines are discovered or invented. These techniques are suitably taught at the several levels of education and finally put to practical
use in the management of land, crops, soils, labor, and capital."Fulcrum being the cornerstone or crux upon which agriculture rested and was dependent. Agriculture was a balance of profit and risk and trying to hedge on'es bet. | |
