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  2. NATURE'S METHODS.

    Nature's mode of manuring and preserving fertility of soil is by spreading nearly everything on the surface, and Nature, in most cases, is a safe guide. Leaves in ...

    Article : 103 words
  3. UTILITY OF HUMUS AS A SOIL FACTOR.

    I wish, I might assure you at the outset, that we know all the good offices of humus and can measure and set forth their effects. The fact is we do not know ...

    Article : 1,233 words
  4. LIFE IN SOIL.

    The soil of a farm is not simply an inert mass of material containing certain mineral substances which plants utilise. It is full of living organisms. Besides the ...

    Article : 293 words
  5. AGRICULTURE.

    The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society has strengthened and increased the prize list, which is now offered for the 1907 Easter Show. The prize money totals ...

    Article : 966 words
  6. CABBAGE CULTIVATION.

    In a report of some experiments in cabbage growing, it is stated that, contrary to the general notion concerning the treatment of " leggy" plants, it was found that ...

    Article : 124 words
  7. COMPLETE FERTILISERS.

    What is known as a "complete" fertiliser (says an exchange) contains phosphoric acid, nitrogen, and potash, the three great elements of plant food which ...

    Article : 488 words
  8. SOIL FERTILITY-LAW OF MINIMUM.

    The law of minimum was propounded by, the celebrated Liebig, and is accepted as an axiom of soil fertility. Every soil con[?] a maximum of one or more and a ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. CONSERVATION OF SOIL MOISTURE.

    In the conservation of soil moisture by tillage there is no way of developing a muleh more effective than to completely remove a layer of soil and lay it down ...

    Article : 315 words
  10. NITROGEN GERMS.

    "The United States Department of Agriculture have issued a special circular to the effect that the extravagant and misleading claims contained in some of the ...

    Article : 169 words
  11. ARSENITE OF LEAD SPRAY FOR CODLIN MOTH.

    The majority of growers using this spray now consider it superior in every way to arsenite of lime or pans green. The formula is as follows:— 1lb. white ...

    Article : 362 words
  12. DISK HARROW WITH SHORT TONGUE.

    Occasionally I have been asked (writes Mr. G.M. Clark, in the New York "Country Gentleman") Why not make a disk machine the same as a drag plough, ...

    Article : 360 words
  13. FOWL MANURE.

    The excrements of fowls, and with them may be included pigeons, ducks, and geese, do not form a rich manure, and are not to be compared for fertilising value to the ...

    Article : 368 words
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