Elements of agricultural chemistry in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture. To which is added A treatise on soils and manures as founded on actual experience and as combined with the leading principles of agriculture; in which the theory and doctrines of Sir Humphry Davy and other agricultural chemists are rendered familiar to the experienced farmer / by a practical agriculturist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.

Contributor:

Sinclair, George, 1786-1834.

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural chemistry.

Soils.

Fertilizers.

Manures.

Penn Provenance:

Coleman, George Dawson (bookplate & autograph) (PSPA copy)

Physical Description:

304, 92 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : B. Warner, 1821.

Notes:

"Appendix. An account of the results of experiments [by George Sinclair] on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses and other plants used as the food of animals. Instituted by John, duke of Bedford": p. [253]-304.

"A treatise on soils and manures" (92 p. at end) has special t.-p. and was also pub. separately.

Contains:

A treatise on soils and manures.

OCLC:

13600098