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MA NURES. 



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SECT. 



X. 



MANURES, OR THE FOOD OP PLANTS 



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The CHYLE of all animals is fimilar 



oily with carboHi pho/phorus, and calcareo 



tables ccnfijls of water, fugar^ mucilage, with carbon, phofph 



It confijls of water, fugar, mucilage 



The SAP -JUICE of vege 



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ous earth. 



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Food of young 



ProduElion of fugar by digeji. 



fugar by germination. 4.- 

 of vegetable and animal bodies, or f 

 and cold blood like winter -feeping 



f, of adult animals. Po 

 Food of young, vegetables 



of digejlion. 



Production of 



Food of adult plants from thefpontanems decompcft 



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2 . Forms all acids 



in water. 

 ous acid, 

 genated ix 



Oxygen in air, in water, united 

 3. Metallic oxides 4 T-^l-'-' 



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of ad .;.,...;, 



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5. Carbonic acid gas from f 

 7. Oxygen in vegetable per] 



vege- 

 light 



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gas applied 





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found in vegetables. Produces 



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quantity in plants . 1. Ufe of their great perfj. 

 pofed in plants, and is hyper- oxygenated. 4. 

 tion. 5. Irrigation of the foil brings other mc^ 

 from irrigation. Sow 



WATER. Its large 



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ous. Hills fhould be ploughed horizontally 



and reap early in wet foils. 7 . Hafy fj 



lubricity, fluidity, andfolu- 

 6 . Penetrability cf the foil 



Ufe of ridges and ft 



of air greater, 8. 



9 . Produ5lion of foliage requires more moifture than that of feeds 



Surf 



Evaporation produces cold. Ufes of coping-flones on fruit -walls 



land ripens the 



hot-houft 



Lime and dung- hills 



Frcft 



Much water in the atmofph 



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ufed 



the atmofph 



limejl 



Carbon combines with putrid exhale 

 ^ater. Lime combines with water. 

 Should be flaked before it is ufed in agriculture 



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I . C A R B o N w an univerfal 



In black earth, morajfes, loam. 



ions. 4. United with oxygen is Joluble in 



Emits heat. Is broken into powder by fleam. 



Better flaked ivith hot water. 



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