Agriculture, its Needs and Opportunities

Abstract

PROFESSOR W. J. BEAL'S address on this subject, delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in August, is of interest to Englishmen from more than one aspect. In the first place its perusal gives us the means of knowing what is being done in the United States for the advancement of scientific agriculture. In the next place we are able to judge how far we excel or are excelled by our American relatives in matters connected with agricultural inquiry. Lastly, it is in such addresses that we may expect to find suggestions worthy of attention, and thoughts which in due course will develop into acts. Prof. Beal takes for his text—“Agriculture, its Needs and its Opportunities.” So far as its needs go they are manifold, and its opportunities are certainly coextensive with its vast domain.