AGRICULTURAL ENQUIRIES ON PLAISTER OF PARIS. Also, facts, observations and conjectures on that substance, when applied as manure. Collected, chiefly from the practice of farmers in Pennsylvania, and published as much with a view to invite, as to give information
Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, No. 104, North Second Street and John Markland, No. 91, South Front Street, 1797. First edition. 8vo. (2), vii, [9]-111, (3) pp. The earliest substantial American book on fertilizer. Peters (1744-1828), a native of Philadelphia and graduate of the College of Pennsylvania, managed Congress's board..... More