 ... 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....  Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry - Page 376by Francis Humphreys Storer - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1864 - 770 pages
...general characters of the land. Speaking still in agricultural language, it may be said that the soil is a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw yellowish...upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage. The questions arise : — What are the grain-yielding capabilities of such land ? — what its powers of... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1873 - 864 pages
...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...upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage." Lastly, the wheat-field is artificially pipe-drained, but the barley-fieldis not. The particulars of... | |
 | James Glaisher - 1864 - 768 pages
...in agricultural language, it may be said that the soil is a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil °f raw yellowish red clay, but resting in its turn upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage. of exhaustion? — and how far will the answers arrived at on these points in reference to it, accord... | |
 | Journal of the Royal Agricultural society - 1873 - 920 pages
...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...upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage." Lastly, the wheat-field is artificially pipe-drained, but the barley-fieldis not. The particulars of... | |
 | John Bennet Lawes, Joseph Henry Gilbert - 1873 - 212 pages
...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...upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage." Lastly, the wheat-field is artificially pi pe-d rained, but the barley-field is not. The particulars... | |
 | New Jersey. Board of Agriculture - 1874 - 302 pages
...wheat, year after year on the sam<; land ; without manure, and with different kinds of manure. The soil is a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw, yellowish...but resting in its turn upon chalk, which provides a good natural drainage. Previous cropping — 1839, turnips, with farm-yard manure ; 1840, barley;... | |
 | Joseph Harris - 1878 - 364 pages
...call it clay ; but being thoroughly cultivated, it is a good clay loans. Mr. Lawes describes it as "a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw, yellowish...chalk, which provides good natural drainage." The part of the field devoted to the experiments was divided into 24 plots, about the fifth of an acre... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1867 - 462 pages
...any manure for twenty years. The land was " what may be called fair average wheat land." "The soil a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw yellowish...chalk, which provides good natural drainage." The average amount of produce in the neighborhood at the time when the experiments were commenced, was... | |
 | William Fream - 1888 - 288 pages
...is grown with a moderate degree of success, under a system of rotation and home manuring. The soil is a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw yellowish...upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage. PLAN OF THE EXPERIMENTS. The reports include accounts of the amount and character of the produce obtained... | |
 | 1893 - 740 pages
...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...upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage." Lastly, the wheat-field is artificially pipe-drained, but the barley-field is not. The particulars... | |
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