Letters, to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1787-1788.

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Letters, to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1787-1788.

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Letter on the use of plaster of Paris as a grass manure is dated 13 August 1787. Letter on the Hessian fly is addressed to Samuel Powel and dated 16 August 1788.

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Wynkoop, Henry, 1737-1816

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