T. B. Terry

Theodore Brainard Terry (January 2, 1843 – January 1, 1916) was an American farmer, journalist and agricultural writer.

Biography Terry was born in LaFayette, New York. In 1870, he purchased a poor farm and made a great success of it. He lectured at Farmer's Institutes.

Terry was educated at Western Reserve College. He started out as a poor farmer. He had a farm about 12 miles from Akron, Ohio with 125 acres of which 70 were muck swamp which he sold for almost nothing. Terry grew clover in fields in which previous occupants had refused to plow.

Terry advocated a vegetarian diet in his book How to Keep Well and Live Long, published in 1909. In opposition to Dr. Elmer Lee he advocated the consumption of butter and cheese.

Selected publications How to Grow Strawberries (1890) Our Farming (1893) The ABC of Potato Culture (1893) The ABC of Strawberry Culture (1902) How to Keep Well and Live Long (1909)