01697pam a2200277 i 4500 4126529 BD-DhUL 20200211100736.0 761018r1976 ctucf b 001 0ceng 76049613 083719329X DLC DLC DLC DLC BD-DhUL n-us--- S415 .D5 1976 926.3 DIT Dies, Edward Jerome, 1891- Titans of the soil : great builders of agriculture / Edward Jerome Dies. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976, c1949. ix, 213 p., [18] leaves of plates : ports. ; 23 cm. 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. Agriculturists United States Biography. ddc BK 84904 84904 0 0 ddc 0 926_300000000000000_DIT 0 NFIC 141610 DUL DUL GEN 2016-07-20 purchased 926.3 DIT 80057 2016-07-20 2016-07-20 BK