Sentence:  But often as a cultured tree knows nothing of the <WSD>husbandries</WSD> which beautified the stock from which it sprang, and thus caused its beauty, so youths know nothing of the spiritual <WSD>husbandries</WSD> of past days, to which they are indebted for the moral attractiveness they have to others, and the moral strength which they themselves deem sufficient. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.