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... course , is obvious ; the more water drunk , the poorer must the composition of the urine be . But here again , as in the case of the dung , this is largely compensated for by the total quantity voided - the more dilute the urine , the ...
... course , is obvious ; the more water drunk , the poorer must the composition of the urine be . But here again , as in the case of the dung , this is largely compensated for by the total quantity voided - the more dilute the urine , the ...
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... course litter also performs a very useful function sanitarily , inasmuch as it serves to keep the stall or byre fresher and cleaner and more free from noxious gases , which it absorbs , than would otherwise be the case . Straw is almost ...
... course litter also performs a very useful function sanitarily , inasmuch as it serves to keep the stall or byre fresher and cleaner and more free from noxious gases , which it absorbs , than would otherwise be the case . Straw is almost ...
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... course , the recorded analyses1 for wheat - straw ranging from .22 to .81 per cent , or furnishing an average of .48 per cent - i.e . , 10.75 lb. per ton . Barley - straw is somewhat richer in nitrogen , the recorded analyses ranging ...
... course , the recorded analyses1 for wheat - straw ranging from .22 to .81 per cent , or furnishing an average of .48 per cent - i.e . , 10.75 lb. per ton . Barley - straw is somewhat richer in nitrogen , the recorded analyses ranging ...
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... course rotation , is put down to turnips . The last method consists in taking as the data the amount of food consumed and litter used in the production of the manure . Of these methods Heiden considers the last as alone satisfactory and ...
... course rotation , is put down to turnips . The last method consists in taking as the data the amount of food consumed and litter used in the production of the manure . Of these methods Heiden considers the last as alone satisfactory and ...
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... as follows : - : - 1. Temperature . The higher the temperature the more rapidly will the manure decay . 2. Openness to the air . Of course it will be seen that the effect of exposing the manure to the action 32 CONDITIONS OF FERMENTATION .
... as follows : - : - 1. Temperature . The higher the temperature the more rapidly will the manure decay . 2. Openness to the air . Of course it will be seen that the effect of exposing the manure to the action 32 CONDITIONS OF FERMENTATION .
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acre aerobic organisms ammonia amount of straw analyses Appendix applied Author BLACKWOOD carbonic acid cent Cheap Edition cloth common farm animals composition crops Crown 8vo decomposition dry matter dry substance dung Engravings enlarged Essays farmyard manure Fcap fermentation fertilising fertilising matter fixers French morocco fresh and rotten fresh farmyard manure gilt Glasgow heaps Heiden Heiden's Düngerlehre History horse horse-manure J. G. Lockhart JOHN John Galt Laurence Oliphant lime LL.D Lord loss Magnesia manure produced manure-heap manurial ingredients Maps Memoir mineral matter nature nitrogen NOTE OLIPHANT organic matter oxygen percentage phosphates phosphoric acid Poems portion Portrait Post 8vo potash potatoes Professor quantity Revised Rothamsted experiments rotten manure Scotland Scottish Second Edition soil solid and liquid soluble nitrogenous sulphate of ammonia Third Edition tion Translated University of Edinburgh urine value of farmyard VOIDED BY SHEEP vols Warington Wheat-straw yard manure
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