Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Volume 13Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1852 - Agriculture |
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acre agricultural Alumina ammonia amount animals average barley beans Boussingault bred breed bushels butter Carbonic Acid carrots casein cattle cent Chloride churn clay clover commencement consumed contained corn Cotswold Cotswold Sheep cows cream crop cultivation Cumberland districts double silicate drainage draining drilled exhibitors experiment farm farmers feeding feet Fromberg grains grass guano horses improved inches increase inoculation Johnston labour land Leiston Liebig lime limestone live weight machine Magnesia manufactured manure meadow Messrs milk Nesbit nitrate of soda nitrogen Number of Analyses oats obtained Organic Matter pasture Payen Phosphoric Acid plants plough portion potash prize produce proportion quantity river Nene roots salts season seed sheep silicate soil soluble Sorby SOVEREIGNS sown Spittlegate Sprengel stone straw stream subsoil sugar Sulphuric Acid surface Sussex Sussex sheep swedes tenant trace turnips wheat
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Page 243 - During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Page 142 - ... that given in the last column. The fact is, that there is an almost unlimited supply of the mineral requisites of plants in soils, but that the great agricultural problem is to get at them — to render them available ; and here again it seems reasonable to suppose that abundant cultivation, which lets in carbonic acid and ammonia to the soil, may by that very act be providing the potash and phosphate of lime which the former, and the silica which the latter, are endowed with the power of dissolving,...