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050	0	0	_aS415 _b.D5 1976
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100	1		_aDies, Edward Jerome, _d1891-
245	0	0	_aTitans of the soil : _bgreat builders of agriculture / _cEdward Jerome Dies.
260			_aWestport, Conn. : _bGreenwood Press, _c1976, c1949.
300			_aix, 213 p., [18] leaves of plates : _bports. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aReprint of the ed. published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aBibliography: p. [187]-203.
505	0		_aFood 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.
650		0	_aAgriculturists _zUnited States _xBiography.
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