...although it was excusable at .1 time when the knowledge of agricultural chemistry was extremely limited. in book form, reaching its fifth edition in 1852....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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...''An essay on calcareous manures," in the American Farmer, Vol. TIT. p. 313 (the number for De ceml>er 28, 1821). This essay had been prepared and read before...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,...