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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, b.
Its new philosophy of the soil, based on proven principles and completely opposed to age-old concepts, has had a strong impact upon theories of cultivation around the world.
Faulkner\'s masterpiece is recognized as the most important challenge to agricultural orthodoxy that has been advanced in this century.
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