|
Variation in composition of crops
|
490
|
|
|
Absorption of plant-food
|
490
|
|
|
Fertilising ingredients lodge in the seed
|
491
|
|
Forms in which nitrogen exists in plants
|
491
|
|
|
Bearing of above on agricultural practice
|
492
|
|
Influence of excessive manuring of crops
|
492
|
|
|
|
CHAPTER XXIII.—MANURING OF THE COMMON FARM CROPS.
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|
Cereals
|
493
|
|
|
Especially benefited by nitrogenous manures
|
494
|
|
|
Power of absorbing silicates
|
494
|
|
|
Barley
|
495
|
|
|
Period of growth
|
495
|
|
|
Most suitable soil
|
496
|
|
|
Farmyard manure not suitable
|
497
|
|
|
Importance of uniform manuring of barley
|
497
|
|
|
Norfolk experiments on barley
|
497
|
|
|
Proportion of grain to straw
|
498
|
|
|
Wheat
|
499
|
|
|
Rothamsted experiments
|
500
|
|
|
Continuous growth
|
500
|
|
|
Flitcham experiments
|
500
|
|
|
Oats
|
501
|
|
|
A very hardy crop
|
502
|
|
|
Require mixed nitrogenous manuring
|
502
|
|
|
Arendt's experiments
|
503
|
|
|
Avenine
|
503
|
|
|
Quantities of manures
|
504
|
|
Grass
|
504
|
|
|
Effect of manures on herbage of pastures
|
505
|
|
|
Influence of farmyard manure
|
506
|
|
|
Influence of soil and season on pastures
|
507
|
|
|
Manuring of meadow land
|
508
|
|
|
Bangor experiments
|
508
|
|
|
Norfolk experiments
|
509
|
|
|
Manuring of permanent pastures
|
509
|
|
Roots
|
510
|
|
|
Influence of manure on composition
|
512
|
|
|
Nitrogenous manures increase sugar
|
512
|
|
|
Amount of nitrogen recovered in increase of crop
|
513
|
|
|
Norfolk experiments
|
513
|
|
|
Manure for swedes
|
514
|
|
|
Highland Society's experiments
|
515
|
|
|
Manuring for rich crops of turnips
|
516
|
|
|
Experiments by the author on turnips
|
516
|
|
|
Potatoes
|
517
|
|
|
Highland Society's experiments
|
518
|
|
|
The Rothamsted experiments
|
519
|
|
|
Effect of farmyard manure
|
520
|
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|
Manuring of potatoes in Jersey
|
521
|
|
|
The influence of manure on the composition
|
521
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|
Leguminous crops
|
522
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