It was on July 5, 1943, when Plowman's Folly was first issued, that the author startled a lethargic public, long bemused by the apparently insoluble problem of soil depletion, by saying, simply, "The fact is that no one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing." With the key sentence, he opened a new era.

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Paperback, 6th Edition

ISBN13: 9780806111698

University of Oklahoma Press, 1943

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