A muck manual, for farmers

by Samuel Luther Dana

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Lowell, Mass. Daniel Bixby, 1842. First edition, large 12mo, pp. 242, 2 ; very good copy in orig. green ribbed cloth, paper label on spine with one very small nick in the corner . A work dealing with the chemistry of soils and manures, and one of the first such scientific treatises written by an American and published in the United States. It attracted immediate attention and went through several editions. He later wrote an Essay on Manures 1850 , which was

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