Soils: Their Properties, Improvement, Management, and the Problems of Crop Growing and Crop Feeding |
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Soils; Their Properties, Improvement, Management, and the Problems of Crop ... Charles William Burkett No preview available - 2019 |
Soils; Their Properties, Improvement, Management, and the Problems of Crop ... Charles William Burkett No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
abundance acid phosphate acre alfalfa ammonia animals applied available plant food bacteria barnyard better bushels carbon cent clay clover compounds condition contains corn cotton cow peas crop rotation cultivated crop culture dairying decay deep disk drainage earth effect elements fact farm farmer favor feeding fertilizer fertilizing materials field follows forms given grass ground grow growth harrow hence humus inches increase inoculation kainit kind labor land legume leguminous lime live stock loss materials mellow mineral mixed moisture mulch nature nitrate of soda nitrates nitrification nitrifying bacteria nitrogen nitrogen fixation organic matter oxygen phosphoric acid phosphorus plant food plant roots plow poor potash pounds production quantity rain reason rock sand secured seed silt soluble sort spreader stable manure subsoil substances sulphate supply surface theory things tile drain tillage tion tons tubercle vegetable weeds wheat yield
Popular passages
Page 293 - ... some waste their whole lives " in studying how to arm death with new engines of " horror, and inventing an infinite variety of slaughter ; " but think it beneath men of learning (who only are " capable of doing it) to employ their learned labours " in the invention of new, or even improving the old, " instruments for increasing of bread.
Page iii - Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 300 - I teach The earth and soil To them that toil, The hill and fen To common men That live just here; The plants that grow, The winds that blow, The streams that run In rain and sun Throughout the year; The shop and mart, The craft and art, The men to-day, The part they play In humble sphere; And then I lead Thro' wood and mead By bench and rod Out unto God With love and cheer.
Page 25 - ... fine gravel, coarse sand, medium sand, fine sand, very fine sand, silt, and clay.
Page 293 - Some waste their whole Lives in studying how to arm Death with new Engines of Horror, and inventing an infinite Variety of Slaughter ; but think it beneath Men of Learning (who only are capable...
Page 293 - Ploughing the Sea with Ships, than of Tilling the Land with Ploughs; they bestow the utmost of their Skill, learnedly, to pervert the natural Use of all the Elements for Destruction...
Page 148 - ... and insect pests through this plan of inoculating by means of natural soils. Even though weeds may not have been serious in the first field, the great number of dormant seeds requiring but a slight change in surroundings to produce germination is always a menace. If soil...
Page 266 - ... no branch of husbandry requires more skill and sagacity than a proper rotation of crops, so as to keep the ground always in heart, and yet to draw out of it the greatest profit possible.
Page 165 - ... to dissolve plant food. Grasses and other succulent plants contain not, less than seventy-five per cent, of water, fruits about ninety per cent. In addition, great quantities are evaporated by the leaves. A large tree will give off an immense amount of water daily from its leaves. Over three hundred pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter in a plant. Dry matter means what is left after every particle of water has been taken out. We now begin to get an idea of how much...