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... plants , which it produced . Science has disclosed to us the fact , that the living plants and the dead manure , whether animal or vegetable , are resolvable into the same elementary substances , though existing in dif- ferent states of ...
... plants , which it produced . Science has disclosed to us the fact , that the living plants and the dead manure , whether animal or vegetable , are resolvable into the same elementary substances , though existing in dif- ferent states of ...
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... plants . With sufficient time and expense , soils were reformed in this way . But the invention of the sub- soil plough , the greatest achievement of modern art , as applied to agriculture , will enable the Essex far- mer to convert his ...
... plants . With sufficient time and expense , soils were reformed in this way . But the invention of the sub- soil plough , the greatest achievement of modern art , as applied to agriculture , will enable the Essex far- mer to convert his ...
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... plants , and especially for grasses . When drained of the exuberant moisture , and the soil has been sufficiently exposed to the action of the atmosphere , they become extremely productive , and may be kept so at a very inconsiderable ...
... plants , and especially for grasses . When drained of the exuberant moisture , and the soil has been sufficiently exposed to the action of the atmosphere , they become extremely productive , and may be kept so at a very inconsiderable ...
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... plants as a piece of marble , and discovered to me at once the cause of the failure , in a great measure , of my crop of potatoes the year before . Having discovered what I supposed to be the cause of the failure , I set about devising ...
... plants as a piece of marble , and discovered to me at once the cause of the failure , in a great measure , of my crop of potatoes the year before . Having discovered what I supposed to be the cause of the failure , I set about devising ...
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... plants can derive all the advantages pos- sible from it , and where too , the manure applied to it will be most efficacious . At the same time it is important to loosen the subsoil , so that the water may pass off ; and the roots of the ...
... plants can derive all the advantages pos- sible from it , and where too , the manure applied to it will be most efficacious . At the same time it is important to loosen the subsoil , so that the water may pass off ; and the roots of the ...
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