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An Essay On Calcareous Manures - by Edmund Ruffin (editor); J. Carlyle Sitterson (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The publication in 1832 of __An Essay on Calcareous Manures__ initiated an era of agricultural reform in the ante-bellum South. By 1850 Edmund Ruffin, seconded by John Taylor of Carolina, had effected a transformation of the economy of the upper South from poverty to agricultural prosperity. The essay's importance is not only regional, for in its four editions it presented Ruffin's theories to farmers who were facing the same problems of soil exhaustion in other parts of America. This small book, with its uncompromisingly descriptive title, is a landmark in the history of soil chemistry in the United States. Ruffin read widely in the literature, mainly European, of agricultural chemistry, and in the 1820's he experimented with ways to make planting pay on his own tidewater Virginia lands. On the basis of his own research and frustrating experience as a farmer, he maintained that the capacity, of soil for enrichment by plant and animal manure is only relative to the original fertility of the soil. In other words, organic manures can only restore earth to what it was prior to cultivation. If land originally lacked the mineral ingredients essential to fertility, it would yield sparing

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Author

Edmund Ruffin (editor); J. Carlyle Sitterson (editor)

Publisher

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Published

1961

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674864627

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, History, American Studies