| Timothy Flint - 1833 - 418 pages
...require. In proportion as soils possess a due degree of tenacity, and power of retaining and absorbing heat and moisture, the necessity for a supply of manure...desiderata in agriculture being to render wet lands dry, and to supply dry lands with sufficient moisture ; to make adhesive soils loose, and loose soils sufficiently... | |
| John Ruggles Cotting - 1835 - 134 pages
...deficiency. In proportion as soils possess a due degree of tenacity, and power of retaining and absorbing heat and moisture, the necessity for a supply of manure...diminished ; and in some instances the earths are so combined as to render the application of manure unnecessary. In general the character of a soil depends... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1838 - 756 pages
...require. In proportion as soils possess a due degree of tenacity, and power of retaining or absorbing heat and moisture, the necessity for a supply of manure...drainage or irrigation, has all the materials for per* Rccherches Physico-Chimiques. nianent improvement ; the grand desiderata in agriculture being... | |
| New Hampshire State Agricultural Society - 1855 - 426 pages
...them, if the third be entirely wanting. He who possesses on his estate these three earths — slay, sand and lime — of a good quality, with facilities...has all the materials for permanent improvement. The other most valuable elements of fertility, and valuable in proportion as they happen to be deficient... | |
| 1860 - 682 pages
...flourish in any two of them, if the third be entirely wanting. He who possesses on his estate these three earths — clay, sand and lime — of a good quality, with facilities for draining or irrigation, has all the materials for permanent improvement. The other most valuable elements... | |
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