agrologyn.

1849 Working Farmer Apr. 35/3 The sciences which have a common parentage with agriculture, compel us to permit them to enter into our plan of study. 1. Earth.—We have to examine its nature in connection with its products; this is the object of a technologic science, derived from mineralogy, and to which we give the name Agrology.

1916 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 3) 415/1 Agrology, the science of soils, and their support of special vegetation.

1930 Science 11 July 40/2 Pedology, agrology and humology are all terms which do not describe what we have in mind when we say soil science.

1946 Statutes Prov. Sask. LXVIII. 652 ‘Practising agrology’ and similar forms of expression mean..experimenting with, or advising on the application of scientific principles and practices relating to the cultivation, production, improvement..of agricultural plants.

1971 Winnipeg Free Press 8 June 42/1 There is virtually no discrimination against women in the profession of agrology in Western Canada.

2009 Meadow Lake (Sask.) Progr. (Nexis) 27 Nov. 5 In most Saskatchewan communities, there is an individual who is making their living practicing Agrology.

1907 Meyer Brothers Druggist Sept. 391/2 Every agrologist knows that fruit trees are retarded in their growth when they bear large quantities of fruit.

1946 Statutes Prov. Sask. LXVIII. 652 ‘Agrologist’ means any person registered as an agrologist under the provisions of this Act.

2000 Gardening Life Summer 56/2 I was worried about planting edibles over the waste system, but my friend Tony Hill, agrologist for the agriculture branch of the Yukon government, says it won't be a health hazard.