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For they tell us that to be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil.’“‘Yes, and they are right,’ I remarked; ‘for if you don't know what the soil is capable of growing, you can't know, I suppose, what to plant or what to sow.’
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1979.
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