The author advocates the use of saltpetre to increase the yield of crops, and says : "By the help of plain saltpetre, dilated in water and mingled with some other fit earthly substance, that may familiarize it a little with the corn into which I endeavored... The Nature and Properties of Soils - Page 434by Harry Oliver BUCKMAN, Nyle C. Brady - 1922 - 653 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 864 pages
...and says : "By the help of plain saltpetre, dilated in water and mingled with some other fit earthy substance, that may familiarize it a little with the...richest, in giving a prodigiously plentiful harvest.* His FERTILIZERS dissertation does not, however, show any true conception of the reason for the increase... | |
| Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin, Harry Oliver Buckman - Soil science - 1915 - 804 pages
...excrement on cultivated soils was practiced as far back as systematic agriculture can be definitely traced, the earliest record of the use of mineral...for the increase in the crop through the use of this fertili/.er. In fact, the want of any real knowledge at that time of the composition of the plant would... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 854 pages
...use of saltpetre to increase the yield of crops, and says : "By the help of plain saltpetre, dilated in water and mingled with some other fit earthly substance,...increase in the crop through the use of this fertilizer. The almost total absence of any knowledge of th^ composition of plants, and the crude state of chemistry... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 858 pages
...use of saltpetre to increase the yield of crops, and says : "By the help of plain saltpetre, dilated in water and mingled with some other fit earthly substance,...which I endeavored to introduce it, I have made the barrenes! ground far outgo the richest, in giving a prodigiously plentiful harvest." His dissertation... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 928 pages
...and says: "By the help of plain saltpetre, dilated in water and mingled with some other fit earthy substance, that may familiarize it a little with the...richest, in giving a prodigiously plentiful harvest.* His FERTILIZERS dissertation does not, however, show any true conception of the reason for the increase... | |
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