| C. S. Marlatt - 1896
...the carbonate of lime contained. We can hardly overlook this mistake, although it was excusable at .1 time when the knowledge of agricultural chemistry...the first publication, this essay attracted great attent ion, and is even now the best authority on certain phases of the subject. As a result of this... | |
| Ronald Numbers, Todd L. Savitt - 1999 - 388 pągines
...title An Essay on Calcareous Manures. This work, later hailed by a Department of Agriculture expert as “probably the most thorough piece of work on a special...agricultural subject ever published in English,” established Ruffin's reputation as a scientific agriculturist and attracted such favorable notice that... | |
| Jack Temple Kirby - 1995 - 324 pągines
...colleagues' professionalism and good intentions. The Essay on Calcareous Manures, Cutter declared, was "the most thorough piece of work on a special agricultural subject ever published in the English language." Nine years later the editor of the Southern Planter paid homage to contemporary... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 2000 - 416 pągines
...Agriculture, wrote in his agency's Yearbook that Ruffin's seminal 1832 treatise on soil acidity was "the most thorough piece of work on a special agricultural subject ever published in the English language." Nine years later, in 1904, the editor of Richmond's venerable Southern Planter... | |
| G. Terry Sharrer - 2002 - 308 pągines
...tariff of 1828. The book, i long "Essay." which three decades after his death still won laurels as "the most thorough piece of work on a special agricultural subject ever published in the English language." explained how marl (carbonate of lime from fossilized oyster shell) neutralized... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 2006 - 409 pągines
...delivered between 1803 and 1812, is — to reapply WP Cutter's extravagant encomium for Ruffin — arguably "the most thorough piece of work on a special agricultural subject ever published in the English language" to that time. Davy subscribed (like all his contemporaries) to the humus theory... | |
| Jack Temple Kirby - 2009 - 384 pągines
...Department of Agriculture (USDA) wrote in the agency's yearbook that the Essay on Calcareous Manures was "the most thorough piece of work on a special agricultural subject ever published in the English language." (More important than Davy's work on chemistry?) In 1904, Richmond's venerable... | |
| 1904 - 874 pągines
...Prince George Agricultural Society, of which Ruffin was a member. The essay was afterwards published in book form, reaching its fifth edition in 1852....of this and other publications by the same author, я large proportion of the farm owners in the tide-water district of Virginia were led to use marl,... | |
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