 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1876 - 856 pages
...great and scientific instructor, Liebig, says, in bis Modern Agriculture, published in 1859, p 232: "Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest in facts and the poorest in their comprehension. Facts by the million can not be bequeathed, but scientific principles, which are the expressions for... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1859 - 328 pages
...principles which are expressions for these facts, may be so, because they are immutable in their nature. Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest...in facts, and the poorest in their comprehension. MODERN AGRICULTURE DEFICIENT IN PRINCIPLES. 233 Facts are like grains of sand which are moved by the... | |
 | John Joseph Mechi - 1876 - 456 pages
...unsuccessful. Our greatest agricultural philosopher (Baron Liebig) says (p. 232, Modern Agriculture) : — " Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest in facts and the poorest in their comprehension. " A fact simply tells us of its existence, but experience ought to inform us why it exists. 'i CULTIVATION.... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1876 - 848 pages
...great and scientific instructor, Liebig, says, in his Modern Agriculture, published in 1859, p. 232: "Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest in facts and the poorest in their comprehension. Facts by the million can not be bequeathed, but scientific principles, which are the expressions for... | |
 | Illinois Farmers' Institute - 1914 - 454 pages
...adoption of systems of permanent fertility. It is more than fifty years since Liebig wrote the following: "Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest...in facts, and the poorest in their comprehension. Facts are like grains of sand which are moved by the wind, but principles are these same grains cemented... | |
 | William Stull - 1919 - 168 pages
...labor, is not tending to eliminate this already alarming discontent. CHAPTER XXIII PROFESSOR LJEBIG said, " Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits,...facts and the poorest in their comprehension." This is true to-day, and because of these misapprehensions on the part of lawgivers and the public, the... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1919 - 110 pages
...explaining the meaning and the true significance of facts. He himself quoted the great chemist Liebig, who said: "Agriculture is of all industrial pursuits...richest in facts and the poorest in their comprehension. Facts are like grains of sand which are moved by the wind, but principles are the same grains cemented... | |
 | Williams College. Institute of Politics, National Fertilizer Association - 1926 - 188 pages
...provided to cover its depreciation. Many blame the farmer for this loss of value. Liebig's statement that "agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest in facts and the poorest in their comprehension" may have been aimed at the German farmer in the middle of the last century. Then and now this stricture... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - 1938 - 1000 pages
...usual research techniques to answer quickly the questions asked us, but, rather, blitzsearch. Knowledgi Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest in facts and the poorest in their comprehension. Facts are life grains of sand which are moved by the wind but principles are these same grains cemented... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - 1938 - 602 pages
...research techniques to answer quickly the questions asked us, but, rather, blitzsearch. Knowledge ^•^ Agriculture is, of all industrial pursuits, the richest in facts and the poorest in their comprehension. Facts are Uke grains of sand which are moved by the wind but principles are these same grains cemented... | |
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Facts are like grains of sand which are moved by the wind, but principles are these same grains cemented into rocks. 