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Title: Talks on Manures
A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author
and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the
Whole Subject

Author: Joseph Harris

Release Date: October 3, 2006 [EBook #19448]

Language: English

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TALKS ON MANURES.

A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks
Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor,
and Other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
of Manures and Fertilizers.

by

JOSEPH HARRIS, M.S.

Author of "Walks and Talks on the Farm,"
"Harris on the Pig," etc.

NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION,

Including a Chapter Specially Written for It
by Sir John Bennet Lawes, of Rothamsted, England.

[Illustration: Publisher's Logo]

New York:
Orange Judd Company,
1919

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by the
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Printed in U. S. A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Farming as a Business.-- High Farming and G