Rapid and knowledge-based agricultural origins and plant domestication in the Neolithic Near East gave rise to Western civilizations.

This volume examines the factors currently affecting agriculture on a global scale. Land use, soil quality, and the inherent production of greenhouse gasses by agriculture each receive their own chapters.

Excerpt from Agriculture, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2: A Historical Account of Its Principles and Practice, Exemplified in Their Rise, Progress, and Development For light and friable soils, the Golden Drop, Nursery, Spaldings, Talavera, Lammas, and other finer sorts of wheat, are adapted. The Talavera is a spring wheat, but all the other sorts succeed as winter wheats. Every farmer, however, will know how to adapt the species of seed to the soil, by observing what is the general practice of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.