Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Band 25

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Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1864
 

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Seite 105 - ... favourable conditions immediately before harvest, the quantity of corn per acre, as well as that of straw, was also above the average of the 20 years ; excepting in some of the cases of the heavier crops, which were much laid. The corn-yielding characters of the crop varied, however, very considerably ; the proportion of corn to straw, and the weight per bushel of the dressed corn, being generally considerably the lower, the greater the proportion of nitrogen to mineral constituents in the manure...
Seite 91 - ... season, the full consideration of which already has so clearly indicated, and so greatly limited, the necessary reference to it here. With regard to the soil, as already stated, the experimental barley-field immediately adjoins the experimental wheat-field. The soil of both may be described as — "a somewhat heavy loam, with a subsoil of raw yellowish red clay, but resting in its turn upon chalk, which provides good natural drainage.
Seite 335 - Moisture 4-72 Organic matter and water of combination .. .. 11-03 Oxides of iron 9-98 Alumina 6'06 Carbonate of lime 12-10 Sulphate of lime .. .. -75 Magnesia and alkalies 1"43 Soluble silica (soluble in...
Seite 550 - These pustules maturated, and, if death happened not first, dried up into scabs about the twelfth day. ' It could not be cured, no, nor in the least mitigated, by phlebotomy, drinks, or any medicines or methods they could invent or hear of. It was exceedingly contagious and mortal, for when it came it swept away almost whole flocks ; but yet it could in nowise be accounted the same with our human small-pox, because it never affected mankind.
Seite 91 - J bushels, and the highest in the first year 24J, and in the last 56i bushels, cannot fail to be of much interest at once to the practical farmer, to the economist, and to the man of science. Accounts there have been before, of the growth of wheat for many consecutive years apparently with great success, and without much evidence of exhaustion, on soils of admittedly extraordinary fertility ; and the recent experience of the Rev. S. Smith, of Lois...
Seite 54 - I prefer) round the hills on the surface, and dig in. All that is necessary after is to use your nidget, and harrow both ways, taking care not to pull up the dung. This should complete the work, unless hoeing is required to keep down annuals. * " Picking commences in early seasons from the 1st to the 8th September ; in late ones, from the 15th to the 20th. Before it begins due provision should be made, and everything got in readiness : cokes may be sent for in July and August, and a sufficient number...
Seite 93 - the crops on a field diminish or increase in exact proportion to the diminution or increase of the mineral substances conveyed to it in manure...
Seite 91 - ... 25 to 27 bushels per acre once every five years, it is obvious that, in a practical point of view, it can lay no claim to extraordinary fertility, or to be ranked on a higher level than a large proportion of the soils on which wheat is grown with a moderate degree of success under a system of rotation and home manuring. Such, in an agricultural or commercial point of view, were the general characters of the land.
Seite 91 - ... for twenty successive seasons, without either fallow or a fallow crop, and in which the lowest produce was in the first year 15, and...
Seite 344 - ... recent filtration experiments point out the reason why marl or lime is peculiarly valuable on poor sands. It is not merely by supplying in a direct manner a deficient element of nutrition that lime acts so beneficially on such soils, but because it preserves in the soil the more valuable fertilising matters, which, like salts of potash or ammonia, rapidly filter through sandy soils, unless a sufficient quantity of marl or lime has been previously applied to the land. By these means the bases...

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