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... Manure - 313 406 IV . Of the Uses of the Soil to Vegetables 3. Of discovering the Qualities of a Soil me- chanically ... Manures 327 I. Of the Situation or Emplacement of Fences 431 II . Of the different Kinds of Fences 430 - 432 3. Of ...
... Manure - 313 406 IV . Of the Uses of the Soil to Vegetables 3. Of discovering the Qualities of a Soil me- chanically ... Manures 327 I. Of the Situation or Emplacement of Fences 431 II . Of the different Kinds of Fences 430 - 432 3. Of ...
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... manures is ascribed by Pliny to the Grecian king Augeas . The- ophrastus enumerates six different species of manures ; and adds , that a mixture of soils produces the same effects as manure . Clay , he says , should be mixed with sand ...
... manures is ascribed by Pliny to the Grecian king Augeas . The- ophrastus enumerates six different species of manures ; and adds , that a mixture of soils produces the same effects as manure . Clay , he says , should be mixed with sand ...
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... manure . " ( Cap . lxi . ) The season for ploughing was any time when land was not wet : 15 in the performance , the furrow is directed to be kept equal in breadth throughout , one furrow equal to another ; and straight furrows . The ...
... manure . " ( Cap . lxi . ) The season for ploughing was any time when land was not wet : 15 in the performance , the furrow is directed to be kept equal in breadth throughout , one furrow equal to another ; and straight furrows . The ...
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... manure for five years . " ( Lib . i . 6. ) Stubble was very generally burned , as it was also among the Jews . Lime was used as a manure , especially for vines and olives . Cato gives particular directions how to form the kiln and burn ...
... manure for five years . " ( Lib . i . 6. ) Stubble was very generally burned , as it was also among the Jews . Lime was used as a manure , especially for vines and olives . Cato gives particular directions how to form the kiln and burn ...
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... manure ; sometimes French beans are substituted and the ripe seeds used as food , or turnips are sown for cattle ... manure would be scarce , but the Tuscan farmers are as assiduous in preserving every particle both of human and animal ...
... manure ; sometimes French beans are substituted and the ripe seeds used as food , or turnips are sown for cattle ... manure would be scarce , but the Tuscan farmers are as assiduous in preserving every particle both of human and animal ...
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Page 47 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
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Page 15 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Page 317 - It should be collected in dry weather, and exposed to the atmosphere till it becomes dry to the touch. The specific gravity of a soil, or the relation of its weight to that of water, may be ascertained by introducing into a phial, which will contain a known quantity of water, equal volumes of water and of soil, and this may be easily done by pouring in water till it is half full, and then adding the soil till the fluid rises i*s to the mouth ; the difference between the weight of the soil and that...
Page 47 - ... rent lying by him, therewith to purchase a new lease, beside a fair garnish of pewter on his cupboard, with so much more in odd...
Page 342 - Magnesia has a much weaker attraction for carbonic acid than lime, and will remain in the state of caustic or calcined magnesia for many months, though exposed to the air. And as long as any caustic lime remains, the magnesia cannot. be combined with carbonic acid, for lime instantly attracts carbonic acid from magnesia.
Page 15 - Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place ? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Page 349 - I found that corn sprouted much more rapidly in water positively electrified by the Voltaic instrument than in water negatively electrified ; and experiments made upon the atmosphere show that clouds are usually negative ; and as, when a cloud is in one state of electricity, the surface of the earth beneath is brought into the opposite state, it is probable that in common cases the surface of the earth is positive.
Page 332 - All green succulent plants contain saccharine or mucilaginous matter, with woody fibre, and readily ferment. They cannot, therefore, if intended for manure, be used too soon after their death. When green crops are to be employed for enriching a soil, they should be ploughed in, if it be possible, when in flower, or at the time the flower is beginning to appear, for it is at this period that they contain the largest quantity of easily soluble...