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NOTES FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS.—We quote the following from 
M. Maumevé’s “ Fermentation without Ferments,” published in Les 
Mondes: ‘Heretofore no real explanation of the réle of manures 
has been given, but a little reflection readily shows the interest con- 
tained in the explanations furnished by my theories upon the alter- 
ations of the salts and their application to the nourishment of 
plants. It is quite clear that the soluble matters employed as 
manures are either very stable or are easy to decompose. Their degree 
of stability affects their nutritive value. But this stability has not, as 
yet, been attached to any known principle. The principle of my theory, 
just spoken of, shows the enormous influence of the inequality of the 
equivalent weights of the acid and the base upon the salts. An active 
manure is one which presents this inequality, because it will certainly 
give rise to other salts which show but little or none. The manure 
will be not only active but especially nutritious, if the products of de- 
composition, conformably to the law of mixtures, are of a nature to be 
‘absorbed by the plants, thus facilitating their production by means of 
the powerful effects of the osmose of the walls of the cells, tubes, &c. 
The separation of a certain quantity of alkali, as in the alteration of 
acetate of soda, or a certain quantity of acid, as in producing other 
salts, explains the movements of vegetation, the formation of insoluble 
‘deposits, &c. This subject is one to which I shall return, in order te 
show, by examples, in what manner my new discovery may become val- 
uable.” 
