This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...Cunnersdorf Mauscgast Kbtitz Oberbobritzsch Oberschbna Pounds. 9144 5583 1095 911--Quantity of manure applied in 1851. Cwt.. 180 194 229 314 897 The field at Cunnersdorf which contained the largest store of dung-constituents received the smallest; the field at Oberbobritzsch which gave the smallest crop of clover, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...Cunnersdorf Mauscgast Kbtitz Oberbobritzsch Oberschbna Pounds. 9144 5583 1095 911--Quantity of manure applied in 1851. Cwt.. 180 194 229 314 897 The field at Cunnersdorf which contained the largest store of dung-constituents received the smallest; the field at Oberbobritzsch which gave the smallest crop of clover, the largest quantity of farm-yard manure. The crop of clover, however, is not the only factor to determine the amount of farm-yard dimg required for manuring; for one of the clover-constituents, silicic acid, which is indispensable to the cereal plants, is present only in trifling proportion, and hence the quantity of farm-yard manure (straw-manure) must bear a definite ratio to the quantity of straw-constituents already present in the ground. If, in the Saxon experiments, we compare the increased produce of corn and straw obtained from the fields manured with farm-yard dung, we find: --Increase of produce by farm-yard manuring, per acre. Cunnersdorf Kotitz Oberbobritzsch Quantity of farm-yard manure. 180 cwt. 229 cwt. 314 cwt. Corn 347 lbs. 352 lbs. 452 lbs. Straw 1743 1006 914 The field in Cunnersdorf, manifestly the richest in substances nutritive for straw, gave the largest straw-crop, although it had received the smallest quantity of farmyard manure. In the increased produce, corn was to straw as 1:5, clearly showing that sparing application of straw-manure was the proper course to pursue here. This fact readily explains also why the field at Oberbobritzsch, comparatively poorer in straw-constituents, required 85 cwt. of farm-yard manure more than the Kotitz field, to enable it to maintain, in its increased produce, the same proportion of corn and straw (1: 2) as in the crop from the unmanured plot. These considerations...
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Add this copy of The Natural Laws of Husbandry: Edited By John Blyth to cart. $60.25, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
