Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry, Volume 2

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C. Scribner's sons, 1892
 

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Page 380 - 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 334 - 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 308 - Palestine was unsurpassed; but when misgovernment and foreign and intestine wars occasioned the neglect or destruction of their works, traces of which still meet the traveller's eye at every step, when the reservoirs were broken and the terrace walls had fallen down, there was no longer water for irrigation in summer, the rains of winter soon washed away most of the thin layer of earth upon the rocks, and Palestine was reduced almost to the condition of a desert.
Page 277 - THERE are many ancient and received traditions and observations touching the sympathy and antipathy of plants ; for that some will thrive best growing near others, which they impute to sympathy ; and some worse, which they impute to antipathy.
Page 254 - ... naturally leads are of the highest interest; but as it would be impossible to treat of them at once clearly and at the same time as briefly as our present object permits, it will be best to turn our attention to some of the more practical bearings of the question. In feeding stock but a small proportion of the nitrogen in the food is converted into the substance of the animal; the greater portion is restored to the soil as manure. The economy of the production of meat as a means of obtaining...
Page 335 - Annually she removes from the shores of other countries to her own the manurial equivalent of three million 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 whole world, and sucks the heart blood from nations without a thought of justice towards them, without a shadow of lasting advantage to herself!
Page 335 - 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 148 - The effect of this superabundance of acid matter is, on the one hand, to arrest the further natural decay of the organic matter, and, on the other, to render the soil unfavorable...
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...

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