History remembers Edmund Ruffin, the Virginia native believed to
have fired the first shot against Fort Sumter in 1861, as one of
the South's most aggressive "fire-eaters." This volume of Ruffin's
work offers us his lesser-known but equally intense passion for
agricultural study. In carefully edited selections from Ruffin's
writings, Jack Temple Kirby presents an innovative, progressive
agronomist and pioneering conservationist. Arranged in sections
discussing southern agricultural history, Ruffin's observations of
nature, his ideas about land reform, and his plans for soil
rejuvenation, Nature's Management shows that Ruffin was a thinker
far ahead of his time, recognizing our need to improve agriculture
and to protect nature.
Known as the "father of soil science" in the United States,
Edmund Ruffin discovered and solved the problem of soil acidity
while still in his twenties and published several papers on the
subject. As the publication of his writing increased, Ruffin left
his own farming business to pursue his studies. This volume
contains a collection of Ruffin's essays on a variety of
interrelated subjects. From the promotion of fencing and methods of
malaria prevention to advocacy of a public works program and the
recycling of waste, Ruffin's ideas paved the way for the early
conservation movement associated with Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford
Pinchot, and others. Nature's Management presents Ruffin's activism
and innovative genius at its best, replacing the image of a
southern firebrand with that of an outspoken reformer deserving of
recognition.
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