 | 1851 - 612 pages
...mineral theory then eagerly adopted was contained in the following axiom of Liebig's : — " The crops in a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to...or increase of the mineral substances conveyed to them in manure." This doctrine received a deathblow from Mr. Lawes's experiments at Hothamstead, in... | |
 | 1851 - 606 pages
...mineral theory then eagerly adopted was contained in the following axiom of Liebig's :— " The crops in field diminish or increase in exact proportion to...Or increase of the mineral substances conveyed to them in manure." This doctrine received a deathblow from Mr. Lawes's experiments at Rothamstead, in... | |
 | 1851 - 686 pages
...mineral theory then eagerly adopte:! wns contained in the following a-xiom of Lama : — "The crops in a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to the diminution or increase of the mineral subsances conveyed to them in manure." This doctrine received its death-blow from Mr. LAWKS' experiments... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1853 - 1034 pages
...forced upon them opinions different from those of Professor Liebig, on some important points ; and more especially, in relation to his so-called " mineral...edition of his work on Agricultural Chemistry ; where lie says " the crops on a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to the diminution or increase... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1853 - 1034 pages
...forced upon them opinions different from those of Professor Liebig, on some important points ; and more especially, in relation to his so-called " mineral...embodied in the following sentence, to be found at page 21 1. of the third edition of his work on Agricultural Chemistry ; where he says " the crops on a field... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1854 - 1042 pages
...opinions different from those of Professor Liebig, on some important points; and more »specially, in relation to his so-called " mineral theory," which...edition of his work on Agricultural Chemistry ; where he aays " the crops on a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to the diminution or increase... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1855 - 180 pages
...has forced upon us opinions different from those of Professor Liebig on some important points; and more especially in relation to his so-called Mineral...The crops on a field diminish or increase in exact * Zeitschrift fur Landwirthschaft, VI. Jahrgang. proportion to the diminution or increase of the mineral... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1855 - 130 pages
...he have had the boldness to say (Journal, vol. xi. p. 383) that ''The axiom of Liebig, 'the crops in a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to...or increase of the mineral substances conveyed to tfeem in manure,' has received a death-blow from Mr. Lawes's experiments." Again (p. 392), "The Mineral... | |
 | Julius Adolph Stöckhardt - 1855 - 442 pages
...fertility of our fields by supplying them with manures rich in nitrogen, or with ammaniacal salts alone. The crops on a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to the diminution or increase in the mineral substances conveyed to it in the manure." Liebig complains that Mr. Lawes has here taken... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1855 - 676 pages
...sentence from Baron Liebig, which we are ourselves so much complained of for quoting, thus : — " * ' The crops on a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to the diminntion or increase of tho mineral substances conveyed to it in manure. — Litbvj: " In France... | |
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Liebig, on some important points ; sad more especially, in relation to his so-called " mineral theory," which is embodied in the following sentence, to be found at page 211 of the third edition of his work on Agricultural Chemistry, where he says " the... 
