 | John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1831 - 1330 pages
...divided matter, of which 1 1 parts were carbonate of lime, and 9 parts vegetable matter, wheu dried at 212°, gained in an hour, by exposure to air saturated...with moisture, at a temperature of 62°, 18 grains. 1000 parts of a very fertile soil from the banks of the river Parret, in Somersetshire, under the same... | |
 | 1832 - 486 pages
...it affords one method of judging of the productiveness of land." He farther states, that 1000 parts of a celebrated soil, from Ormiston in East Lothian,...of a very fertile soil, from the banks of the river Parret in Somersetshire, under the same circumstances, gained 16 grains. The following are the results... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1833 - 398 pages
...it affords one method of judging of the productiveness of land." He further states, that 1000 parts of a celebrated soil, from Ormiston in East Lothian,...of a very fertile soil, from the banks of the river Parret in Somersetshire, under the same circumstances, gained 16 grains. The following are the results... | |
 | David Low - Agriculture - 1834 - 724 pages
...an hour, when exposed to air saturated with moisture at the temperature of 62% 18 grains. 1000 partH of a very fertile soil from the banks of the river...Somersetshire, under the same circumstances, gained 16 grains. 1000 parts of a soil from Mersea in Essex, worth 45s. an acre, gained 13 grains. 1000 parts of a fine... | |
 | Agriculture - 1840 - 550 pages
...an hour by exposure to aif sfttntated with mOiilnre « a temperature of 62 degrees, eighteen parts. 1000 parts of a very fertile soil from the banks of the river Parret, in Somersetshire, under the same circumstances, gained sixteen parts. 1000 parts of a soil... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Agricultural chemistry - 1836 - 458 pages
...divided matter, of which 11 parts were carbonate of lime and 9 parts vegetable matter, when dried at 212°, gained in an hour by exposure to air saturated with moisture, at temperature 62°, 18 grains. 1000 parts of a very fertile soil from the banks of the river Parret,... | |
 | Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India - 1837 - 336 pages
...water absorbed by them is given in weight; stated,* 1000 parts of a celebrated soil from East Lothian gained in an hour by exposure to air saturated with moisture at the temperature of 62°, 18 grains." The relation between 1000 parts and 18 grains not being given,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1838 - 528 pages
...near Maldon, in Essex, worth 42s. per acre, dried at a temperature of 212°, absorbed in 18 hours, by exposure to air saturated with moisture, at a temperature of 62°, 25 parts. 1000 parts of the same soil, which had been salted with 6 cwt. of salt per acre, under the... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agriculture - 1840 - 84 pages
...eleven parts were carbonate of lime, and nine parts of vegetable matter, when dried at a temperature of 212°, gained in an hour by exposure to air saturated with moisture at a temperature of 62°, eighteen parts. 1000 parts of a very fertile soil from the banks of the river Parret, in Somersetshire,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1842 - 604 pages
...in Essex, worth 45s. per acre, that 1000 parts dried at a temperature of 212, absorbed in 18 hours by exposure to air saturated with moisture at a temperature of 62°, 25 parts ; but 1000 parts of the same field which had been dressed with 12 bushels of marine salt per... | |
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... 212°, gained in an hour by exposure to air saturated with moisture, at temperature 62°, 18 grains. 
