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Soil Culture

Soil Culture

Soil Culture

This volume is designed to be a complete manual for all but amateur cultivators. The object of this volume is to condense, and present in an intelligible form, all important established facts in the science of soil-culture. The author claims originality, as to the discovery of facts and principles, in but few cases.

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