Titans of the soil : great builders of agriculture /
by Dies, Edward Jerome.
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BookPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976, c1949Description: ix, 213 p., [18] leaves of plates : ports. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 083719329X.Subject(s): Agriculturists -- United States -- Biography| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Reprint of the ed. published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [187]-203.
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.
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