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Page 10
Experience , at all times , has taught the husbandman that animal and vegetable
substances , mixed with the soil , afforded nourishment to the plants , which it
produced . Science has disclosed to us the fact , that the living plants and the
dead ...
Experience , at all times , has taught the husbandman that animal and vegetable
substances , mixed with the soil , afforded nourishment to the plants , which it
produced . Science has disclosed to us the fact , that the living plants and the
dead ...
Page 39
From this Bakewell cow I bred for several years , in and in , and had a fine show
of animals , much admired . The first imported animal was “ Celebs . " I crossed
my Bakewell stock first by him . Second , I then took a cross from “ Holderness , ”
a ...
From this Bakewell cow I bred for several years , in and in , and had a fine show
of animals , much admired . The first imported animal was “ Celebs . " I crossed
my Bakewell stock first by him . Second , I then took a cross from “ Holderness , ”
a ...
Page 113
Phosphorus is contained in urine and other animal matter , is easily set on fire by
friction , and is now in common use on friction matches . Oxygen gas is one of the
most important agents in the operations of nature . Mixed with azote , twenty ...
Phosphorus is contained in urine and other animal matter , is easily set on fire by
friction , and is now in common use on friction matches . Oxygen gas is one of the
most important agents in the operations of nature . Mixed with azote , twenty ...
Page 43
The use of these will never supersede that of animal manure , where it can be
obtained . But as the amount of animal manure made on most of our farms barely
suffices to keep the land in the same heart from year to year , the enterprizing ...
The use of these will never supersede that of animal manure , where it can be
obtained . But as the amount of animal manure made on most of our farms barely
suffices to keep the land in the same heart from year to year , the enterprizing ...
Page 96
Ammonia is produced by the putrefaction of animal and vegetable substances
which contain nitrogen . ' Animal manures doubtless owe much of their efficacy to
this constituent , as those which contain it in the largest proportion are most ...
Ammonia is produced by the putrefaction of animal and vegetable substances
which contain nitrogen . ' Animal manures doubtless owe much of their efficacy to
this constituent , as those which contain it in the largest proportion are most ...
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