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- JOHNSON, Cuthbert William
On guano as a fertilizer.    London: James Ridgway,  1843  8vo, 44pp, contemporary quarter roan, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy. First edition. Perkins 879. Goldsmiths 33184. COPAC adds Bristol + Reading. [bound with], JOHNSON, C.W. On saltpetre and nitrate of soda as fertilizers. London: James Ridgway, 1840. 8vo, 51 + (1)pp. First edition. Perkins 886. Rothamsted (2nd ed.) p.81. Fussell 7. Goldsmiths 31386. COPAC adds BL + Reading. [bound with], JOHNSON, C.W. On gypsum as a fertilizer. … Second edition. London: James Ridgway, 1841. 8vo, (2) + 51 + (1)pp. Perkins 880. Fussell 2 (the 1st ed. of 1840). [bound with], [DONCASTER AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION]. Mangel wartzel. Report of the Committee of the Doncaster Agricultural Association on the advantages of mangel wurtzel as a fallow crop. Founded on returns received in answer to the queries issued by the Committee. Third edition. London: James Ridgway, 1850. 8vo, 12pp. Perkins 515. Not in Goldsmiths. [bound with], JOHNSON, C.W. On rendering manures more portable and applicable by the drill.London: J. Ridgway, 1841. 8vo, (2) + 44pp. First separate edition: rare. Perkins 885. Fussell 8. Not in COPAC or NSTC.

An interesting group of material on agricultural fertilizers. Cuthbert William Johnson [1799-1878], although a barrister by profession, was a prolific and expert agricultural writer. Brought up on his father's salt works in Essex, he wrote much on salt. As Fussell wrote caustically, "after all, he wrote to sell the stuff". The use of artificial and chemical fertilizers in farming was in any case still at the experimental stage in the 1840s. Johnson's publications included The Farmer's Encyclopaedia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs [1842] and, with W Shaw, the annual Farmer's Almanac.

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