The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils, and the Causes of Their Beneficial Effect in Each Particular Instance

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Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 93 oldal

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34. oldal - How and fmothered combuftion, that is, to which the free .ac.cefs of aif .has, been prevented, but; alfo of all putrid vegetable and animal bodies ; hence, it. is ,found in vegetable and animal manures, that have .undergone putrefaction, and is the true bails of .their ameliorating powers.
77. oldal - Its retentive power is 82,25 ; hence, I fhould judge it to be unfertile in this climate, unlefs fituated on a declivity with an unimpeded fall ; it may be called a clayey loam. Mr. Young difcovered a remarkable circumftance attendant on fertile foils : he found that equal weights of different foils, being dried and reduced to powder, afforded quantities of air, by diftillation, fomewhat correfponding to the ratios of their values. This air was a mixture of fixed and inflammable airs...
13. oldal - ... by which the quantity projected will be known ; let the balance be then restored ; the difference of weight between the quantity projected and that requisite to restore the balance will discover the weight of air lost during effervescence ; if the loss amounts to 13 per cwt.
72. oldal - ... remainder to drynefs, and weigh it ; this gives the coaly matter, which may be tried by projecting it on melted nitre, with which it will deflagrate. The half of this coaly matter call the coaly fupplement of i Ib. I fhall fuppofe it to amount to 12 grs. and denote it by C. 7.
35. oldal - They also observed, that shavings of wood being left in a moist place for nine or ten months, began to receive the fermentative motion, and being then spread on land, putrefied after some time, and proved an excellent manure I.
6. oldal - Kirwau mentions clay as being of various colours, white, gray, brownish-red, brownish-black, yellow, or bluish; it feels smooth and somewhat unctuous ; if moist, it adheres to the fingers, and if sufficiently so, it becomes tough and ductile ; if dry, it adheres more or less to the tongue ; if thrown into water, it gradually diffuses itself through it, and slowly separates from it. It does not usually effervesce with acids, unless a strong heat be applied, or when it contains a few calcareous particles,...
4. oldal - Butjthe secret processes of vegetation take place in the dark, exposed to the various and indeterminable influences of the atmosphere, and require, at least, half a year for their completion.
14. oldal - ... is perceived. Let the remainder of the powdered marl be weighed, by which the quantity projected will be known. Let the balance be then restored. The difference of weight between the quantity projected and that requisite to restore the balance, will show the weight of air lost during effervescence.
9. oldal - Loam differs from the laft only in containing a larger mixture of coarfe land, or pebbles. This, and the two laft, are generally called by farmers light or hungry foils, particularly when they have but little depth. Ferruginous Loam or fill. This is generally of a dark brown or...
9. oldal - Its cohesion is greater than that of any other loam, but less than that of pure clay. The other ingredient is a coarse sand, with or without a small mixture of the calcareous ingredient.

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