Having described in detail the process of elimination, the author says the exhausted plants are used for a manure, for although the boughs on being planted in the soil would again grow, they would not yield either in quality or quantity enough to pay... The Report of the Missioner of agriculture - Page 259by U.S Government Printing Office Washington - 1874Full view - About this book
| Johannes Rudolf Wagner - Chemistry, Technical - 1872 - 790 pages
...days. The dried cakes of indigo are next packed in stout wooden boxes and then sent into the market. The exhausted plants are used for a manure, for although...would not yield either in quality or quantity enough indigo to pay the expenses of culture. looo parts of fluid from the fermenting tanks yield 0-5 to 075... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1874 - 510 pages
...wooden balka wedged tight against the sides of the wooden tanks, &c." Having described in detail tho process of elimination, the author says the exhausted...of the indigo-plant are placed in a vessel of water and allowed to ferment, a yellow substance is dissolved out, which by contact of air beoomesdeep blue... | |
| United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1874 - 512 pages
...the water by the aid of stout wooden balks wedged tight against the sides of the wooden tanks, &e." Having described in detail the process of elimination,...quantity enough to pay the expenses of culture. Fownes, iu his Manual of Elementary Chemistry, London, 1873, eleventh edition, says that when the leaves of... | |
| U.S. Government, Washington D.C. - 1874 - 512 pages
...the water by the aid of stout wooden balks wedged tight against the sides of the wooden tanks, &e." Having described in detail the process of elimination,...or quantity enough to pay the expenses of culture. Mr. Jolin FD Suiyth in his "Tour of the United States," published in London in 1784, referring to the... | |
| Johannes Rudolf Wagner - Chemistry, Technical - 1892 - 1006 pages
...days. The dried cakes of indigo are next packed in stout wooden boxes and then sent into the market. The exhausted plants are used for a manure, for although...would not yield either in quality or quantity enough indigo to pay the expenses of culture. 1000 parts of fluid from the fermenting tanks yield 0-5 to 0-75... | |
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