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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 115
Will not agricultural chemistry by and by enable us to understand , by teaching us
the analysis of vegetables , precisely ... and what must be restored to that soil to
enable it to produce another crop of the same vegetable equal to the preceding .
Will not agricultural chemistry by and by enable us to understand , by teaching us
the analysis of vegetables , precisely ... and what must be restored to that soil to
enable it to produce another crop of the same vegetable equal to the preceding .
Page 116
In every thing which can with strict propriety be named food for vegetables , it is
the most important part . ... It is decomposed vegetable matter , and of course
contains the most important constituents of vegetables , the largest element.being
...
In every thing which can with strict propriety be named food for vegetables , it is
the most important part . ... It is decomposed vegetable matter , and of course
contains the most important constituents of vegetables , the largest element.being
...
Page 7
tific men and practical farmers , conducted under every variety of soil and climate
, were not only useless , but just subjects of contempt ; or as if an accurate
knowledge of the laws of reproduction in the animal and vegetable kingdoms
could be ...
tific men and practical farmers , conducted under every variety of soil and climate
, were not only useless , but just subjects of contempt ; or as if an accurate
knowledge of the laws of reproduction in the animal and vegetable kingdoms
could be ...
Page 98
Contrary to all received notions among farmers , and hitherto among scientific
men also , Liebig asserts that geine , humus or vegetable mould are not the food
of plants , and declares that so far from humus being extracted from the soil , it is
in ...
Contrary to all received notions among farmers , and hitherto among scientific
men also , Liebig asserts that geine , humus or vegetable mould are not the food
of plants , and declares that so far from humus being extracted from the soil , it is
in ...
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