 | john murray, albemarle stre - 1868 - 710 pages
...countries become more and more impoverished, and sustain a loss of wheat-yielding power, when corn-crops are grown in too rapid succession without manure....infertile, if no manure be applied to it, or if the fertilising elements removed by the crops grown thereon be not by some means or other restored, it... | |
 | George Edwin Waring (Jr.) - 1877 - 556 pages
...other countries become more and more impoverished, and sustain a loss of wheat-yielding power, when corn crops are grown in too rapid succession without...poor, or partially exhausted by previous cropping. " While, however, it holds good, as a general rule, that no soil can be cropped for any length of time... | |
 | Joseph Harris - 1878 - 364 pages
...countries, become more and more impoverished, and sustain a loss of wheat-yielding power, when corncrops are grown in too rapid succession without manure....poor, or partially exhausted by previous cropping. more and more infertile, if no manure be applied to it, or if the fertilizing elements removed by the... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 562 pages
...other countries become more and more impoverished, and sustain a loss of wheat-yielding power, when corn crops are grown in too rapid succession without...the universal practice of manuring, and that also of conr suming oil-cake, corn, and similar purchased food on land naturally poor, or partially exhausted... | |
 | Rogerson and Tuxford - 1868 - 700 pages
...countries become more and more impoverished, and sustain a loss of wheat-yielding- power, when corn-crops are grown in too rapid succession without manure....infertile, if no manure be applied to it, or if the fertilising elements removed by the crops grown thereon be not by some means or other restored, it... | |
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... soil-constituents by the crops usually sold off the farm, leading, as is well known, to more or less rapid deterioration and gradual exhaustion of the land. Even the best wheat-soils of this and other countries become more and more impoverished, and... 