Reed, Robert Stirling2017-09-202017-09-201892http://hdl.handle.net/2097/37222Citation: Reed, Robert Stirling. The farm of the past and the future. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1892.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: The farmer has been spoken of today, but I wish to speak especially of the farm. In nature, all living beings must have nourishment to preserve life. Plants abstract their living from the soil; lower animals feed on plants and other animals; man, the culmination of earthly life, must also look to lower beings and to mother earth for his sustenance; and since the days of Adam, that sustenance has been given only as the reward of toil. At first, I presence this toil was of the simplest and rudest nature and consisted in gathering his food from whatever he could find. But he is a progressive being, full of inquisitiveness, and he soon saw that a little attention to growing nature would assist its productiveness greatly. This was the foundation of farming.The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.FarmDevelopmentAgricultureTextThesesManuscripts (documents)