May 17, 2011
"Do civilizations fall because the soil fails to produce—or does a soil fail only when the people living on it no longer know how to manage their civilization?"

— Charles Kellogg, “Soils and Men”, 1938.

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Filed under: agriculture history 
November 9, 2009

London, 1927. In colo(u)r! Thanks, crooked timber!

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