IMPROVING THE GROUND
Sep 10, 2021
2 minutes
SAM MOORE
Virgil, the Roman poet who lived from 70 to 19 B.C., wrote the following lines about renewing the soil: “Yet sprinkle sordid ashes all around, and load with fattening dung thy fallow ground.”
Even though the idea of using manure to make soil more fertile is an ancient concept, early American farmers, reveling in the rich and abundant virgin land, were slow to
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