The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^tJ^ l^7i^a^£^ ber of papers on these subjects, which have beenpublished in the official reports of the state boardsof agriculture and the agricultural journals, andhas delivered a
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^tJ^ l^7i^a^£^ ber of papers on these subjects, which have beenpublished in the official reports of the state boardsof agriculture and the agricultural journals, andhas delivered addresses before the several stateboards of agriculture and of agricultural and horti-cultural societies. In 1874 he prepared for thetruckers of the South a complete fertilizer especiallyadapted for growing Irish potatoes. This was thebeginning of special crop manures in this the more important original features in histeachings may be stated thefollowing: that plants duringtheir changing periods ofgrowth under varied condi-tions of weather demand fortheir best development a choiceof varied forms of plant food;that the nitrogen, phosphoricacid and potash should be fromvaried rather than from singlesources; also, that for certaincrops like tobacco (for smok-ing) and for potatoes, sugarbeets, etc., where starch andsugar formation is desired,that it is of the highest im-portance that the potash in
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