Manures and sthe Principles Of Manuring

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Author

Aikman, Charles Morton, 1861-1902

Title

Manures and the principles of manuring

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Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University)

Language

English

LoC Class

S: Agriculture

Subject

Manures

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eBook-No.

27274

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27274

Release Date

November 16, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PRINCIPLES OF MANURING
2. 2.C. M. AIKMAN, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.I.C. — FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, GLASGOW VETERINARY COLLEGE, AND EXAMINER IN CHEMISTRY, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY; AUTHOR OF 'FARMYARD MANURE,' ETC. — WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MCMX — D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY NEW YORK — TO — SIR JOHN BENNET LAWES, Bart. , D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., — OF ROTHAMSTED, — AND — SIR J. HENRY GILBERT, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., — FORMERLY SIBTHORPIAN PROFESSOR OF RURAL ECONOMY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, WHOSE FAMOUS INVESTIGATIONS DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS HAVE SO LARGELY CONTRIBUTED TO BUILD UP THE SCIENCE OF MANURING, — THIS WORK, — EMBODYING MANY OF THE ROTHAMSTED RESULTS, IS DEDICATED.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
6. 6.HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.PRINCIPLES OF MANURING
8. 8.FERTILITY OF THE SOIL. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY MANURES. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.THE POSITION OF NITROGEN IN AGRICULTURE. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III.
13. 13.NITRIFICATION. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IV.
15. 15.THE POSITION OF PHOSPHORIC ACID. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER V.
17. 17.THE POSITION OF POTASH IN AGRICULTURE. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI.
19. 19.MANURES
20. 20.FARMYARD MANURE — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII. — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.GUANO. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII.
24. 24.NITRATE OF SODA. — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IX.
26. 26.SULPHATE OF AMMONIA. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER X.
28. 28.BONES — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XI.
30. 30.MINERAL PHOSPHATES. — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XII.
32. 32.SUPERPHOSPHATES. — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIII.
34. 34.THOMAS-PHOSPHATE OR BASIC SLAG. — FOOTNOTES:
35. 35.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIV.
36. 36.POTASSIC MANURES.
37. 37.MINOR ARTIFICIAL MANURES. — FOOTNOTES:
38. 38.SEWAGE AS A MANURE.
39. 39.LIQUID MANURE.
40. 40.COMPOSTS.
41. 41.Lime.
42. 42.INDIRECT MANURES—GYPSUM, SALT, ETC.
43. 43.THE APPLICATION OF MANURES. — FOOTNOTES:
44. 44.MANURING OF THE COMMON FARM CROPS. — FOOTNOTES:
45. 45.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXIII.
46. 46.ON THE METHOD OF APPLICATION AND ON THE MIXING OF MANURES. — FOOTNOTES:
47. 47.ON THE VALUATION AND ANALYSIS OF MANURES. — FOOTNOTES:
48. 48.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXV.
49. 49.THE ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTS. — FOOTNOTES:
50. 50.INDEX.

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