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An Essay on Calcareous Manures

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  • Ruffin, Edmund
    In Edmund Ruffin

    …a highly influential book, An Essay on Calcareous Manures (1832)—in which he explained how applications of calcareous earths (marl) reduced soil acidity. Even more persuasive were Ruffin’s enhanced yields of corn and wheat on lands fertilized, plowed, planted, rotated, and drained according to his instructions.

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