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acre to weigh 100 tons, and that the drains lie 

 at only 40 inches from the surface, we shall 

 liQ^xe 4,000 tons of soil subject to the solvent ac- 

 tion of the AYater ; and we shall find by calcula- 

 tion that the quantity of potash removed from 

 the soil in. the year by drainage, would be rep- 

 resented by the decimal -00001 per cent, that is 

 to sp^y, that if the whole of the soil were ana- 

 lyzed before and after this quantity (71bs. per 

 a'cre) was removed, there would be found no 

 greater difference in one hundred grains of 

 soil than the one hundred-thousandth part of a 

 grain. 



These examinations will hardly ftiil to interest 

 those of my readers who have considered the 

 mode in which plants absorb their food from 

 the soil or the atmosphere by which they are 

 surrounded ; and all such laborious steps, by 

 which we increase our knowledge of the move- 

 ments of organic bodies, assuredly tend to place 

 our most practical efibrts on a better, since upon 

 a more intelligible foundation. 



Farmer's Magazine. 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



RICHMOND, NOVEMBER, 1856. 



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