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DANA, S[AMUEL] L. Manures: a Prize Essay. Lowell, [Mass.]: Bixby & Whiting, 1844. 1st ed. 12mo. 47 pp. Orig. printed wrappers. $150.00
R & B 44-1827. In 1842 Dana published A Muck Manual for Farmers, regarded as one of the first scientific treatises on agriculture written and published by an American in this country. The present work, which DAB misdates 1850, "was widely used as a rural handbook..."