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The true yield of business is determined less by the size of the estate than by the sum of the investment.

— Albrecht Thaer Thaer cited in: Marion W. Gray (2000)

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An agricultural enterprise requires: 1st, a suitable person; 2nd, capital; 3rd, an estate.

In the greater number of cases, peat is very much like acid or sour humus; indeed, it sometimes resembles it so strikingly that it is impossible to distinguish these substances apart.

Agronomy; or a Treatise on the Constituent Parts and Physical Properties of the Soil, and the best Method of acquiring a Knowledge of the different Earths, and ascertaining their Value.

Agriculture is a trade with the purpose... to produce profit or to gain money. The higher this benefit in the long run, the more complete this purpose is fulfilled.

Thaer (1810)

Every person who seeks to practise agriculture with the full success which it admits—and that is the natural aim of every one who engages in it—must possess energy, activity, reflection, perseverance, and a knowledge of all the kindred and accessory sciences.

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