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Titans of the soil; great builders of agriculture.
- Title
- Titans of the soil; great builders of agriculture.
- Author
- Dies, Edward Jerome, 1891-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, [1949]
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- Description
- ix, 213 p. ports.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Agriculturists > United States > Biography
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [187]-203.
- Contents
- Food and freedom.--George Washington, farmer of Mount of Vernon.--Thomas Jefferson, farmer of Monticello.--Elkanah Watson, father of State fairs.--Eli Whitney, immortal mechanical genius.--Henry L. Ellsworth, soldier of the land.--Edmund Ruffin, father of soil chemistry.--John Deere, he turned the prairies.--Cyrus Hall McCormick, man with the reaper.--Justin S. Morrill, he lighted candles of wisdom.--Samuel W. Johnson, genius of the test tube.--Wilbur Olin Atwater, master of nutrition.--Seaman A. Knapp, schoolmaster of agriculture.--Stephen Moulton Babcock, the jolly scientist.--Theobald Smith, conqueror of Texas fever.--Mark A. Carleton, wheat explorer.--Harvey W. Wiley, apostle of pure food.--George Harrison Shull, creator of hybrid corn.--And these, too, served.--Prelude to future.
- Call Number
- JXE 82-36
- LCCN
- 49008546
- OCLC
- 1283157
- 1283157
- Author
- Dies, Edward Jerome, 1891-
- Title
- Titans of the soil; great builders of agriculture.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, [1949]
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: p. [187]-203.
- Research Call Number
- JXE 82-36