Farming
the business or management of a farm, comprising the entire circumstances and control of it. Once regarded as a profession easy to be understood, and requiring but little preparation for its successful practice, it has come to be viewed in a different and a wiser manner. It has been justly said that no pursuit requires more talent, perseverance, and careful observation than the cultivation of the earth; that, so far from its being an empirical business, it is, in fact, one that several other sciences illustrate and assist; one whose professors cannot too often examine the practice of other cultivators; and hence, since it has been found that the labors of the chemist, the botanist, the mechanist, and a natural consequence, that the farmers service of the farmer, it has followed, as the geologist, are all available in the service of the farmer, it has followed, as a natural consequence, that the farmers of our age are rapidly becoming a more scientific, more educated, and far more American economist, born in New Haven, Conn., in 1853. He graduated from Yale in 1874 and took post-graduate studies at Berlin and other German universities.
From 1878 to 1880 he was tutor and from 1880 to 1918 professor of economics in Yale University. In the latter year he the "Yale Review," and of the "Economic 1892 to 1911 he was one of the editors of the "Yale Review," and of the "Economic Review" in 1911-1912. He served as chairman of the New Haven Civil Service Board and as president of the Connectiout Civil Service Reform Association. He was the author of a number of books on economic subjects, several of them written in the German language. He was a member of many economic societies. shire, England. It is on the Blackwater, important industry is the raising of near the Basingstoke canal. Its most important industry is the raising of strawberries. It was long noted as the seat of Farnborough Hill, which was the until her death in 1920. The main depot of the British Royal Aircraft factory was Pop. about 15,000.
Pop. about 15,000.