 | Sir Humphry Davy, George Sinclair, John Russell Duke of Bedford - Agricultural chemistry - 1815 - 452 pages
...power. I have compared the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I have always found it greatest in the most fertile...one method of judging of the productiveness of land. 10OO parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston, in East Lothian, which contained more than half its... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1816 - 442 pages
...have compared the absorbent powers of 4iiany soiJs with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I liuve always found it greatest in the most fertile soils;...one method of judging of the productiveness of land. - ,rJ 1000 parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston, in East Lothian, which contained more than half... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1498 pages
...powers of soiU with respect to atmospheric moisture, is always greatest in the most fertile soils ; 10 that it affords one method of judging of the productiveness of land. " IOOO parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston, in East Lothian, which contained more than half its... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1826 - 1252 pages
...of judging of the productiveness of land. • 2104. As examples of the absorbent powert of soils : 1000 parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston, in...Lothian, which contained more than half its weight of finely divided matter, of which 1 1 parts were carbonate of lime, and 9 parts vegetable matter, when... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 pages
...little absorbent power. The absorbent powers of soils, with respect to atmospheric moisture, is always greatest in the most fertile soils; so that it affords...one method of judging of the productiveness of land. • I* examples of the absorbent power of soils — 1000 parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston in... | |
 | Geology - 1829 - 430 pages
...says, " I have compared the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I have always found it greatest in the most fertile...method of judging of the productiveness of land." He farther states, that 1000 parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston in East Lothian, when dried to... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...says, " I have compared the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I have always found it greatest in the most fertile...method of judging of the productiveness of land." He farther states, that one thousand parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston, in East Lothian, when... | |
 | Science - 1829 - 428 pages
...says, " I have compared the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I have always found it greatest in the most fertile...method of judging of the productiveness of land." He farther states, that 1000 parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston in East Lothian, when dried to... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1832 - 392 pages
...says, " I have compared the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I have always found it greatest in the most fertile...method of judging of the productiveness of land." He farther states, that 1000 ptrts of a celebrated soil, from Ormiston in East Lothian, when dried... | |
 | 1832 - 486 pages
...says, " I have compared the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I have always found it greatest in the most fertile...method of judging of the productiveness of land." He farther states, that 1000 parts of a celebrated soil, from Ormiston in East Lothian, when dried... | |
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I have compared the absorbent powers of many soils with respect to atmospheric moisture, and I have always found it greatest in the most fertile soils ; so that it affords one method of judging of the productiveness of land. 
