AGRICULTURE.

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A Dissertation on the Nature of Soils, and the Properties of Manure: Second edition, in the original boards, of this practical handbook of soil fertilization, containing six essays on crop rotation, manures, and compost. The second edition adds a 33-page appendix on agricultural policy in pre-Victorian England.The anonymous author dedicates the work to Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835), a noted codifier of farming knowledge and the first president of the Board of Agriculture.The first edition (not recorded in Perkins) was published in 1828.

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