The Pacific Guano Company

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ISBN 13 : 9781330512739
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book The Pacific Guano Company written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pacific Guano Company: Its History; Its Products and Trade; Its Relation to Agriculture; Exhausted Guano Islands of the Pacific Ocean: Howland's Islands, Chincha Islands, Etc;, Etc;; The Swan Islands; The Marl Beds and Phosphate Rock of South Carolina, Chisolm's Island Phosphat We invite attention to the following pages, which we trust will be found interesting to the general reader as well as to those actively engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. Few, perhaps, have contemplated the wonderful provisions of nature for maintaining cultivated soils in a state of fertility, or considered the disastrous results which would follow if the means provided for this end were unknown or neglected. The present generation of cultivators of the soils of the Atlantic States have inherited from their ancestors estates which have been under cultivation in many instances more than a century, during which period the steady removal of the elements of fertility from the soil would have resulted in utter barrenness had not modern science and discovery rendered available these gifts of nature for compensating the soil for the constant drain made upon its resources. By a wise use of these advantages the agriculturists of the present day can transmit to their successors through centuries to come estates unimpaired by continued cultivation. The following pages will show the reader what these wonderful provisions of nature are, and how science, art, and enterprise have rendered them available for the benefit of mankind. Besides the sketch of its business herein contained, the Directors of the Pacific Guano Company have decided to exhibit the workings and the value of its products on the Grounds of the Centennial Commission at Philadelphia, to which attention is respectfully called. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.