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Excerpt from The Potash Industry Thousands of American farmers use potash. Hundreds of thousands of them should use it, both for their own present and future profit and to prevent their posterity from receiving a heritage of "worn out" soils. But ashes - once the most common source of potash - are no longer to be had in quantity. Our forests are now cleared and the ash heap of the pioneer is a thing of the past, while wood as a fuel for factories and railroads has been replaced by coal and oil. Where, then, shall we turn for our needs of potash? Man seldom feels a pressing and continuous need which Nature does not meet - and such has been the case with potash. Within the fifty years which measure alike a rapidly increasing demand for it and the practical disappearance of the old source of supply, there has been found, in one of Nature's storehouses, an inexhaustible accumulation of potash. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.