Excerpt from Southern Agriculture

Primitive man obtained his food from the fruits and roots of various wild plants and from the flesh of wild animals. Agriculture began when he first took thought to care for his favorite food plants and to plant them near his usual haunts. The first crops doubtless sprang from the seeds of wild fruits carelessly scattered near the favorite camp or resting place. The fruits of these chance-sown plants were handy and easy to gather, hence the plants were cherished and to some extent protected from injury, while valueless plants would be broken down and destroyed. From such crude beginnings has modern agriculture sprung with its manifold labors and activities that have so wonderfully changed the face of the habitable part of the world, destroying the natural plant covering with its endless variety, and substituting great areas of those few plants that are of greatest utility to mankind. Agriculture is thus the propagation of plants through the intervention of man.

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