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also be, and with equal thoroughness, intermingled. 

 The particles of manure must be effectually and uni- 

 formly distributed among the particles of the soil. 



Prof. Way, in a lecture before the Eoyal Agricul- 

 tural Society of England, finely illustrated the rela- 

 tions of the soil to the plant that grows in it, by com- 

 paring the former to the stomach of an animal, ob- 

 serving that Nature had given to the soil the function 

 or office which in animals is performed by the gas- 

 tric juice and the chyle that of preparing and di- 

 gesting the food of plants. Nothing can show plainer 

 than this analogy the importance of incorporating fer- 

 tilizers with the soil. 



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