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. 1829 Excerpt: ... seven times it of another imexperimcnts suggest, operation, these qualities of soils for absorbing and retaining moisture. mouths of plants until it is dissolved, or become soluble. To effect this, 500 times its weight of After water has been expelled from plaster of water is found to be requisite. This would t-eem ...
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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. 1829 Excerpt: ... seven times it of another imexperimcnts suggest, operation, these qualities of soils for absorbing and retaining moisture. mouths of plants until it is dissolved, or become soluble. To effect this, 500 times its weight of After water has been expelled from plaster of water is found to be requisite. This would t-eem paris by binning or heating, it then again ab-jto indicate that it should be sown early on grass sorbs it powerfully--and not only absorbs, but solidifies it. It is by this process that it is fitted for cornices, busts, &c. Another agency which has been ascribed to lands. My practice has been to sow in March, or early in April, and if practicable, upon alight snow. When sown late, and a cry summer ensues, its brnefits are frequently not perceptible, plaster in the process of vegetation, is that of ac-1 probably from the circumstance of its not having celerating putrefaction in the soil--of rendering; been dissolved. I have followed the example inert vegetable matter soluble, and thus increas-; of two great pioneers in the improvement of ing the supply of vegetable food. The experi-1 American husbandry, the late Judge Peters and ments of Sir H. Davy disprove this theory, and j John Taylor, in sowing it for Indian cprn and show that gypsum rather retards than increases' potatoes before the last ploughing. I consider animal and vegetable putrifaction. j the benefit in this method more certain and the Some, supposing that plants are gifted with ' labor less, than in that of strewing it on the hills sensation, contend, that gypsum acts as a con-of the growing crop. diment to the vegetable, as spices do to the an-j The experience of practical men seems to imal system, and benefits by stimulating their j have fixed the proper quantity at from one t...
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