Item #66384 AN ESSAY ON CALCAREOUS MANURES. Edmund RUFFIN.
AN ESSAY ON CALCAREOUS MANURES.

AN ESSAY ON CALCAREOUS MANURES.

Shellbanks, VA: Published at the Office of the Farmers' Register, 1835. Second edition. 26.5 cm. viii, 116pp. Printed in double columns. Recently rebound in red library buckram, stamped in gilt on spine, new endpapers. From the Advertisement to the Second Edition: "and to those in the great Atlantic tide-water region to know the newly established truth, that their beds of fossil shells furnish the best and cheapest of manures.... This edition will contain nearly three-fourths more print than the first." Ruffin who has become better known for his claim of firing the first shot at Ft. Sumner and then committing suicide when the South lost, revolutionized southern agriculture with his beliefs in scientific agronomy. Item #66384

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