 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1840 - 420 pages
...acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables, and with the influence of soils and action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from...the different substances from which plants derive then* nourishment. The chemical forces play a part in all the processes of the living animal organism... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 pages
...acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables ; and with the influence of soils and the action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from...substances from which plants derive their nourishment." — p. 7. " Innumerable are the aids afforded to the means of life, to manufactures and to commerce,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pages
...acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables ; and with the influence of soils and the action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from...substances from which plants derive their nourishment." — p. 7. " Innumerable are the aids afforded to the means of life, to manufactures and to commerce,... | |
 | Henry Colman - 1841 - 586 pages
...acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables ; and with the influence of soils and the action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from chemistry, which teaches 464 the mode of investigating the composition, and of studying the characters, of the different substances... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1842 - 450 pages
...acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables, and with the influence of soils and action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from...substances from which plants derive. their nourishment. The chemical forces play a part in all the processes of the living animal organism ; and a number of... | |
 | 1843 - 800 pages
...acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables, and with the influence of soils, and action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from...substances from which plants derive their nourishment." We would add that to no department of agriculture is it more important to apply correct scientific... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1843 - 260 pages
...acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables, and with the influence of soils and action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from...chemistry, which teaches the mode of investigating the compostion and of studying the characters of the different substances from which plants derive their... | |
 | W F. Whitehouse - 1845 - 366 pages
...; for such a system must be based on an exact acquaintance with the influence of soils, and action of manure upon them. This knowledge we must seek from...substances from which plants derive their nourishment. OF THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF PLANTS. Carbon enters into the composition of all plants, and of all... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1847 - 492 pages
...Means of the Nutrition of Vegetables ; and with the Influence of Soils, and the Actions of Manures upon them. This Knowledge we must seek from Chemistry,...Substances from which Plants derive their Nourishment." BARON LIKBIG. 6. " A Lease, that it may enable the Occupier to cultivate his Farm, in a proper manner,... | |
 | John Joseph Mechi - 1860 - 460 pages
...his first work on Modern Agriculture ; also at page 267 of his recent work on Modern Farming:— " Perfect agriculture is the true foundation of all...substances from which plants derive their nourishment. ******** " Whatever practical agriculturists and agricultural societies may do, whatever they may resolve... | |
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But a rational system of Agriculture cannot be formed without the application of scientific principles ; for such a system must be based on an exact acquaintance with the means of nutrition of vegetables, and with the influence of soils and actions of... 
