JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This is another in a series of found in situ archeo poetry, buried in true and great defined deepness in an advertisement in the American Agriculturalist for June 1864, just today (151 years into its future) unveiled and displayed in its poeticized glory. [All text is verbatim, and is found in the last ad, at bottom. Please read out loud in your head using the voice of Billy Collins.]
Bone Tafeu
Manu-factured by the
Lodi Manufacturing Co, from
BONE, DRIED NIGHT SOIL
and GUANO ground fine.
The bone is well known
for its lasting effect
and the night soil
and guano
for their / quick action,
the combination producing
a fertilizer EQUAL to guano
and far superior to
Superphosphate
or ground / bones.
Farmers using it
during the past two years
speak of it in
highest
terms.
–from The dictionary of trade products, manufacturing, and technical terms …by Peter Lund Simmonds, 1858, pg 370.
