Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, Volume 1

James Finlay Weir Johnston

Wiley and Putnam, 1843

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LECTURE I	3

12	12

iv	19

Carbon its properties and relations to vegetable life	22

Rewards of study	29

On the constitution of the atmosphere	35

Of water and its relations to vegetable life	42

Characteristic properties of organic substances	1

Connection between the kind of soil and the kind of plants that grow	2

Practical effects of draining	9

Of the theory of springs	15

Of ploughing and subsoiling	24

Improvement of the soil by mixing	33

Of saline manures	41

Sulphates of potash soda magnesia and lime gypsum	47

LECTURE III	57

Of the burning and slaking of lime	60

Light carburetted hydrogen the gas of marshes and of coal	64

Nitrates of potash and soda	76

LECTURE IV	78

States of chemical combination in which lime may be applied	82

Form in which carbon enters into the circulation of plants	85

Form in which the nitrogen enters into the circulation of plants	94

Absorption of nitric acid by plants	101

LECTURE V	105

LECTURE VI	148

Starchits constitution and properties	155

Of substances which contain nitrogen gluten vegetable	170

Vegetable Acids Acetic acid oxalic acid tartaric	178

The chemical action of lime is exerted chiefly on the organic matter	179

General observations on the substances of which plants	185

LECTURE VII	192

Of the chemical changes which take place from the for	199

Of the chemical changes which take place between	206

Of the chemical changes which take place after the ripen	212

LECTURE VIII	216

LECTURE IX	259

Of the several elementary bodies usually met with in	266

LECTURE X	294

Aluminium alumina sulphate and phosphate	300

The oxides sulphurets sulphates and carbon	310

Tabular view of the constitution of the compounds of	316

Of the ash of the grasses and clovers	323

LECTURE II	325

CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCESRELATIVE PRO	333

LECTURE XI	336

Of the distinguishing characters of soils and subsoils	345

Relative positions and peculiar characters of the several	352

LECTURE XII	374

Of the trap rocks and the soils formed from them	383

Of the occurrence of such accumulations in Great Bri	393

Of superficial accumulations of peat	402

On the exact chemical constitution of the earthy part	411

Relations of the soil to the atmosphere	430

201	55

Special effects of the nitrates of potash and soda	64

Phosphate of lime and earth of bones	70

Of mixed saline manures	76

USE OF LIME AS A MANURE	94

Of the use and advantage of the compost form	131

Of the effects produced by lime upon the land and upon the crops	139

Of the sinking of lime into the soil	145

156	156

Of the comparative utility of burned and unburned lime	162

Of the fermentation of starch and sugar and of the relative	168

Why lime must be kept near the surface Page 169	169

Use of silicate of lime 175	175

LECTURE XVIII	177

Will green manuring alone prevent land from becoming exhausted? 183	183

Improvement of the soil by laying down to grass 189	189

Improvement of the soil by the planting of trees 196	196

Of manuring with dry vegetable substances 202	202

206	206

Use of charred vegetable matterssoot c as manures 209	209

ANIMAL MANURES FLESH BLOOD AND SKIN WOOL WOOLLEN BAGS HAIR	217

On what does the fertilizing action of bones depend?	224

Of the application of bonedust to pasture lands	230

Of the droppings of fowlspigeons dung and guano	237

251	251

Of the relative fertilizing values of different animal excretions	258

Of farmyard manure and the loss it undergoes by fermenting	269

G Experiments upon Mixed Crops by Mr Alexander	1

Of the Effect of Sudden Alternations of Temperature	18

322	26

Effect of the top dressings applied in 1841 upon the crop	41

Suggestions for experiments with the silicates of potash	59

323	61

65	65

Made at Muirkirk	71

to 77	77

haust the soil of inorganic vegetable food?	79

89	89

97	97

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Judul	Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, Volume 1 Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, James Finlay Weir Johnston
Pengarang	James Finlay Weir Johnston
Penerbit	Wiley and Putnam, 1843
Asli dari	Universitas Harvard
Didigitalkan	7 Sep 2007

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