Pasteur and his work : from an agricultural and veterinary point of view / by George Fleming.

  • George Fleming
Date:
1886
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Credit: Pasteur and his work : from an agricultural and veterinary point of view / by George Fleming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FROM AN AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY POINT OF VIEW. AGRICULTURE, in tlie widest and most compieliensive sense of the term, depends upon so many collateral sciences, as well as arts, for * its continuous prosperity and progressive develop¬ ment, that any marked advancement or important discovery in these must react more or less beneficially upon it, and pro¬ mote, to a commensurate extent, its welfare. Among the sciences which, for many years, have aided in this direction, perhaps it is not too much to claim for Chemistry a very forward, if not the foremost, place ; and among the greatest chemists are those who have devoted at least a portion of their skill and time to the study of what has been termed “ Agricultural Chemistry.” The chemical composition of soils in relation to the food, growth, and health of plants \ the food, feeding, and products of certain animals, as well as the preparation and pre¬ servation of many of those products for the use of man , the action of the atmosphere, heat, light, and inoistuie upon plants and animals; the artificial agents which may be made to second the efforts or supplement the exhausted powers of natuie, whether in regard to the soil, the plant, or the animal body — in all these,* and in other ways, chemistry has. lent its powerful assistance to agricultural requirements, and it may truly be said that, without it, Agriculture would lose one of its best benefactors and most worthy helpmates. In recent years, the science of Biology has also been bestow¬ ing more and more of its favours on Agriculture, and is now pushing Chemistry very hard for the first place in respect to the services it can render the oldest of all the arts, and more especially with regard to the elucidation of the problems which
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