British Farmer's Magazine, Ausgabe 71James Ridgway, 1876 |
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Seite 2 - Innumerable are the aids afforded to the means of life, to manufactures and to commerce, by the truths which assiduous and active inquirers have discovered and rendered capable of practical application. But it is not the mere practical utility of these truths which is of importance. Their influence upon mental culture is most beneficial ; and the new views acquired by the knowledge of them enable the mind to recognise, in the phenomena of nature, proofs of an infinite wisdom, for the unfathomable...
Seite 5 - ... carbonates required by these plants for their growth, and which we always find as constant constituents of their ashes. All experience demonstrates that the conditions of the existence of marine plants are the same which are essential to terrestrial plants. But the latter do not live like...
Seite 5 - Sir Joseph Paxton, for instance, advises that " the surface of all strong land should be laid up in ridges during the winter, as the action of frost, by expanding the moisture in it, leaves it when thawed in a fine pulverized, friable, or loosened state, by which it is rendered fertile, and ready immediately after levelling in favourable weather to receive the intended crop.
Seite 6 - 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, and presenting to the roots...
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Seite 5 - Block) is reported to have said, ' A farmer can afford to sell and permanently alienate only that portion of the produce of his farm which has been supplied by the atmosphere. A field from which nothing (meaning the minerals) is abstracted can only increase, not decrease, in productive power.' The axiom (says Liebig) thus enunciated is only a natural law. In the opinion of this truly experienced man, to whom future agriculture will surely raise a monument, is at once expressed the whole foundation...
Seite 4 - ... when they again serve as nourishment to a new generation of plants. The oxygen which marine animals withdraw in their respiration from the air, dissolved in...
Seite 5 - ... bushels per acre ? I confess that I do not see why they should not do so. We have seen the power which soils possess of abstracting ammonia from the air — this power is not confined to periods of rain, it is not even limited to the periodical recurrence of dew — so often as air charged with carbonate of ammonia comes into contact with a surface of soil, so often will that soil be enriched by ammonia to the extent to which the air contains it.