An Essay on Calcareous Manures /

An Essay on Calcareous Manures / / Edmund Ruffin; ed. by J. Carlyle Sitterson.

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&#...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Ruffin, Edmund,
MitwirkendeR:
Sitterson, J. Carlyle,
HerausgeberIn:
Sitterson, J. Carlyle,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1961
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:The John Harvard Library ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (199 p.) :; none
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Edmund Ruffin, Agricultural Reformer and Southern Radical
  • CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF EDMUND RUFFIN
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF EARTHS AND SOILS
  • CHAPTER II. ON THE SOILS AND STATE OF AGRICULTURE OF THE TIDEWATER DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
  • CHAPTER III. THE DIFFERENT CAPACITIES OF SOILS FOR IMPROVEMENT
  • CHAPTER IV. EFFECTS OF THE PRESENCE OF CALCAREOUS EARTH IN SOILS
  • CHAPTER V. RESULTS OF THE CHEMICAL EXAMINATIONS OF VARIOUS SOILS
  • CHAPTER VI. CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF RICH SOILS CONTAINING NO CALCAREOUS EARTH
  • CHAPTER VII. PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF ACID AND NEUTRAL SOILS
  • CHAPTER VIII. THE MODE OF OPERATION OF CALCAREOUS EARTH IN SOILS
  • CHAPTER IX. THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF CALCAREOUS MANURES
  • CHAPTER Χ. THE EFFECTS OF CALCAREOUS MANURES, ON ACID SOILS REDUCED BY CULTIVATION
  • CHAPTER XI. EFFECTS OF CALCAREOUS MANURES ON EXHAUSTED ACID SOILS, UNDER THEIR SECOND GROWTH OF TREES
  • CHAPTER XII. EFFECTS OF CALCAREOUS MANURES, ON NEUTRAL SOILS, ALONE, OR WITH GYPSUM
  • CHAPTER XIII. THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY CALCAREOUS MANURE, AND ITS REMEDIES
  • CHAPTER XIV. RECAPITULATION OF THE EFFECTS OF CALCAREOUS MANURES, AND DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR MOST PROFITABLE APPLICATION
  • CHAPTER XV. THE PERMANENCY OF CALCAREOUS MANURES
  • CHAPTER XVI. THE EXPENSE AND PROFIT OF MARLING
  • CHAPTER XVII. DIRECTIONS FOR DIGGING AND CARTING MARL
  • APPENDIX
  • A. DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS OF CALCAREOUS EARTH
  • Β. THE NAMES USUALLY GIVEN TO SOILS OFTEN INCORRECT
  • C. SOME EFFECTS OF SLAVERY ON AGRICULTURAL PROFITS
  • D. OPINIONS THAT SOILS ARE GENERALLY CALCAREOUS
  • E. CALCAREOUS EARTH A PRESERVER OF PUTRESCENT ANIMAL MATTER
  • F. MARLING IN ENGLAND – LIMING
  • G. THE CAUSE OF THE INEFFICACY OF GYPSUM AS A MANURE ON ACID SOILS
  • H. ESTIMATES OF THE COST OF LABOUR APPLIED TO MARLING
  • Backmatter

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