THE STANDARD CYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN 

 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 



By 200 Distinguished Authorities under the Editorship of 



PROF. R. PATRICK WRIGHT, F.H.A.S., F.R.S.E. 



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