All green succulent plants contain saccharine or mucilaginous matter, with woody fibre, and readily ferment. They cannot, therefore, if intended for manure, be used too soon after their death. When green crops are to be employed for enriching a soil,... An encyclopædia of agriculture - Página 332por John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 80 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 614 páginas
...of vegetable origin. All green succulent plants contain saccharine or mucilaginous matter with wooJy fibre and readily ferment. They cannot, therefore, if intended for manure, be unedtoosooo after their death. When green crops are to be employed for enriching a soil, they should... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 páginas
...treatment to enable them to produce their full effects in culture. 1 900. . //' green succulent plants contain saccharine or mucilaginous matter, with woody...after their death. Hence the advantage of digging in green crops whether natural or sown on purpose ; they must not, however, be turned in too deep,... | |
| Sir Humphry Davy - 1836 - 458 páginas
...views respecting the best modes of preserving aud applying them. All green succulent plants eon .din saccharine or mucilaginous matter, with woody fibre,...intended for manure, be used too soon after their death. When green crops are to be employed for enriching a soil, they should be ploughed in, if it be possible,... | |
| 1846 - 392 páginas
...are few cases where they can be applied as manures in their pure forms. All green succulent plants contain saccharine, or mucilaginous matter, with woody...too soon after their death. Hence the advantage of plowing in green crops, whether natural or sown for the purpose; they must not, however, be turned... | |
| William Blackwood - 1842 - 606 páginas
...time gaining above 5 per cent, in the weight, and at least as much in the " All green succulent plants contain saccharine or mucilaginous matter, with woody...They cannot, therefore, if intended for manure, be uted too soon after their death. " "When green crops are to be employed for enriching a soil, they... | |
| Cuthbert William Johnson - 1874 - 416 páginas
...beneficially ploughed in at its blooming time was explained. " AH green succulent plants," said Davy, " contain saccharine or mucilaginous matter, with woody...fibre, and readily ferment ; they cannot, therefore, & intended for manure, be used too soon after their death. When green crops are to be employed for... | |
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