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8 white race and the gradual subjection of the fertile soils to agricultural pursuits, this territory now supports a population of eighty millions of people and the limit has not yet been reached. I t is the province of agriculture to utilize a comparatively few, special, inorganic forms of matter contained in the air and soil and change them into organic compounds, vegetable and animal, which may serve as food and raiment for mankind. Since the transformation which matter thus undergoes is of a purely chemical nature, it stands to reason that the science of chemistry was destined to free agriculture from the slough of empiricism in which it was engulfed and place it upon a sound, scientific basis. The minds of many of the most prominent chemists of the world were imbued with the importance of study and investigations leading to this end. As a result of their labors truths were gradually established and rational systems in the production of vegetable and animal matter based upon them were inaugurated. On this occasion, therefore, it will only be possible to refer briefly to the more important services which the science of chemistry lias done to increase and perpetuate the food production of the world. About three quarters of a century ago Licbi^, who is generally re mled as (he father of agricultural chemistry, penned the following words \ A vi ;il>lf, ; T Iu;il dHrrioral Ion of nruMi i f mo t civilized mil i !<••( in QQ! bul - d tin \o the fr'iH.im attention Of ill! men who U k iiiti-j in l In- ptihli wrh.,1 K , On u ( , \m\><>i\nuc$ Mm! v.- do no! .!«• wo <>ni 1\ ftj ' mj( flu* diUIJ-M I iinlirulrd |.\ t I
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