

CONTENTS. 



PAGB 



Application of manures to the soil, 50 



Animal manures, 52 



Ammonia produced by fermentation of manures, .... 61 



Ammonia easily detected in manures, ... . ... 61 



Ammonia abundant in the urine of the cow its preser- 

 vation important, 63 



Ammoniacal liquor of gas works as a manure, 64 



Apples as food for stock, 84 



Appendix, 87 



Analysis of urine, (A. 28) . . 97 



Analysis of stable manure, . (A. 29) . . 98 



Blood as a manure, 53 



Bones as a manure, 53 



Bones as a manure on dairy lands, 55 



Bones, how prepared as manure, . 56 



Best time for the application of saline manures, .... 69 



Constituent nature of the productions of the soil, .... 14 



Carbon, 15 



Chlorine, 24 



Carbonic acid gas, 28 



Composition of substances in the structure of plants, . . 31 



Composition of water, 33 



Composition of starch, 34 



Composition of gluten, 35 



Causes of good lands being unproductive, and the remedy, 46 



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