Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry, Volume 2

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C. Scribner's sons, 1887
 

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Page 330 - I find on a more minute examination of my lands than the short visits heretofore made to them permitted, that a ten years' abandonment of them to the ravages of overseers, has brought on them a degree of degradation far beyond what I had expected. As this obliges me to adopt a milder course of cropping, so I find that they have enabled me to do it, by having opened a great deal of lands during my absence. I have therefore determined on a division of my...
Page 284 - England is robbing all other countries of the condition of their fertility. Already, in her eagerness for bones, she has turned up the battle-fields of Leipzig, of Waterloo, and of the Crimea; already from the catacombs of Sicily she has carried away the skeletons of many successive generations.
Page 92 - ... in fine weather, it speedily dries, is easily pulverized, and in this state may be used in the same manner as rape-cake, and delivered into the furrow with the seed.
Page 285 - Waterloo, and of the Crimea; already from the catacombs of Sicily she has carried away the skeletons of many successive generations. Annually she removes from the shores of other countries to her own the manurial equivalent of three millions and a half of men, whom she takes from us the means of supporting, and squanders down her sewers to the sea.
Page 112 - ... percentage of nitrogen, and assimilate a comparatively small amount of it over a given area. Yet nitrogenous manures have generally a very striking effect in increasing the growth of such crops. The highly nitrogenous leguminous crops, on the other hand, such as beans and clover...
Page 148 - ... yield a miserable return. The remedy for such failures, which are not at all uncommon in localities where poor sandy soils prevail, is a good dose of lime or marl, and then, and only then, farmyard manure or guano may be applied to the greatest advantage. Marl or lime alone does not suffice...
Page 285 - ... successive generations. Annually she removes from the shores of other countries to her own, the manurial equivalent of three millions and a half of men ; whom she takes from us the means of supporting, and squanders down her sewers to the sea. Like a vampire she hangs upon the neck of Europe, nay of the entire world, and sucks the heart-blood from nations, without a thought of justice towards them, without a shadow of lasting advantage for herself.
Page 311 - Once every year there is a grand 'rodeo', when all the cattle are driven down, counted, and marked, and a certain number separated to be fattened in the irrigated fields. Wheat is extensively cultivated, and also a good deal of Indian corn: a kind of bean is, however, the staple article of food for the common labourers. The orchards produce an overflowing abundance of peaches, figs, and grapes. With all these advantages, the inhabitants of the country ought to be much more prosperous than they are.
Page 285 - Europe, nay, of the entire world, and sucks the hcartblood from nations, without a thought of justice towards them, without a shadow of lasting advantage for herself. It is impossible (he proceeds to say) that such iniquitous interference with the Divine order of the world should escape its rightful punishment; and this may perhaps overtake England even sooner than the countries she robs. Most assuredly a time awaits her, when all her riches of gold, iron, and coal will be inadequate to buy back...
Page 376 - ... season, the full consideration of which already has so clearly indicated, and so greatly limited, the necessary reference to it here. With regard to the soil, as already stated, the experimental barley-field immediately adjoins the experimental wheat-field. The soil of both may be described as — "a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw yellowish red clay, but resting in its turn upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage.

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