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/ˌægrəkˈəltʃərəl/ /ˌægrɪkˈəltʃərəl/ Listen

Agricultural

adjective

Relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming. "Modern agricultural (or farming) methods" , "Agricultural (or farm) equipment" , "An agricultural college"

Relating to rural matters. Synonyms: agrarian, farming. "Farming communities"

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"Agricultural" Quotes from Famous Books

... agricultural college for the best scientific farmer they had, and the best dairyman—a big expense, but they have paid. Also, we sell our products at city prices, since I persuaded the railroad to give us a spur here. We've cleared most of the land that Basil ...

— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly

... the facts have markedly changed. We have passed beyond the agricultural stage, and have entered the stage of industrial development. The occupations of our citizens have become greatly diversified. Large bodies of foreign immigrants have come to us. If we survey the conditions of American life at present, we are strongly impressed with the differences ...

— The Essentials of Spirituality • Felix Adler

... poor agricultural labourer, who lives in poverty, and dirt, and misery—starving annually on a tenth portion of the wages that the skilled mechanic gets—he is no working-man; oh no! Nor the wretched London clerk; he, also, is no working-man; ...

— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson

... crafts, or taking services as gamekeepers, grooms or chauffeurs, with the well-to-do classes who earned their profits from industry or business. Even before the war there was a growing scarcity of labour to grow, and harvest, even the lessened volume of our agricultural output. Dr. Bowley's picture was far from being realized and even if the process of specialization had gone on, it may be hoped that we should have had sense enough to avoid the ...

— International Finance • Hartley Withers

... Eckernfoerde, which has yielded many urns and brooches closely resembling those found in heathen graves in England. Of still greater importance are the great deposits at Thorsbjaerg (in Angel) and Nydam, which contained large quantities of arms, ornaments, articles of clothing, agricultural implements, &c., and in the latter case even ships. By the help of these discoveries we are able to reconstruct a fairly detailed picture of English civilization in the age preceding the invasion ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various

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