Titans of the soil
Subtitle: great builders of agriculture
By: Edward Jerome Dies.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Agriculturists -- United States -- Biography.
Description: ix, 213 p., [18] leaves of plates : 23 cm
Notes: Bibliography: p. [187]-203.
Reprint of the ed. published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Food and freedom.; title: George Washington, farmer of Mount of Vernon.; title: Thomas Jefferson, farmer of Monticello.; title: Elkanah Watson, father of State fairs.; title: Eli Whitney, immortal mechanical genius.; title: Henry L. Ellsworth, soldier of the land.; title: Edmund Ruffin, father of soil chemistry.; title: John Deere, he turned the prairies.; title: Cyrus Hall McCormick, man with the reaper.; title: Justin S. Morrill, he lighted candles of wisdom.; title: Samuel W. Johnson, genius of the test tube.; title: Wilbur Olin Atwater, master of nutrition.; title: Seaman A. Knapp, schoolmaster of agriculture.; title: Stephen Moulton Babcock, the jolly scientist.; title: Theobald Smith, conqueror of Texas fever.; title: Mark A. Carleton, wheat explorer.; title: Harvey W. Wiley, apostle of pure food.; title: George Harrison Shull, creator of hybrid corn.; title: And these, too, served.; title: Prelude to future.