TABLE 11. 
A TABLE 
OF MANlIIiES ACCORDING 
TO THEIR ACTION'. 
BY YIELDING BAHTIIY AND SALINE MATTER. 
IIY ACTING UPON NUTHITI 
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AS CHE.M1C,VL SOLVENT.?. 
STlSlilLANTS 
( Contains muciliige, albumen, a little oil, and 
RAPE CAKE' „.oody fibre. To be used/rM/i. 
MALT DUST contains saccharine .natlers^^ applied /«»;,. 
(Contain soluble putrescent matter, 
STUEPINGS OF FLAX) vegetable eitract, and matter 
AND HEMP (. analogous 10 albumen. 
Hequire no preparation. 
( Contain sacciiorine and raucilagious raal- 
GREEN PLANTS J tcrs and ligneous fibre. 
Applied when flowering. 
)' GREEN PLANTS in the a^llc^ of UiL-ir ligneous fibre. 
THE ASHES OF WIl E \T STit A W . oiihiit,^ . ailliv 
'sSiii^fS^i 
Less fermented "to a iVil'low ; more rotten to turnips. 
w^oDY I'lURE, < l'!r,',';'J.!!.'!!!.'^fI.'™',','J!Ii',i','.'l'': 
TANNER'S SPENT I!ARK,( ZZZn!!"^t"J^^^^ 
P'j'osphale. (1 p,T l„,Nr.i,-,s l percent:, 
Phosphate of linn .., r . ,; ... tJie cereulia, 
rot Slieep, 3 per cent, soluble matters, wliioU 
DUNG OF CATTLE, nearly all which the food cmi- ^ 
FARM-YARdJ mainder woody fibre, more valuable from 
DUNG, A fed cattle than lean as 10 is to IC. If rotted 
(. animal parts is lost. 
, Contain gelatine, fibrine, mucus, fatty or 
r,i-Ar» AMfMAieJ ody matter, albumen, urea, tiric acid, 
DEAD ANIMALS.^ different saline and earthy matters, 
^ anil therefore yields nitrogen. 
(The skin is gelatine, and easily soluble in water; fat, 
^^SH.^ oil, and fibrous maUer.^ 
FISH.— Phospate and carbonate of lime. Cartilage 
according to tlieir species. 
BLUBBER — Carbon and nitrogen in it account for its efTc-cts. 
To be mixed with soil. 
rvrnPTwc-iuT I ^^0""ds in substances composed of carbon, 
LXCREMENTJ hydrogen, azote, and oxygen. 
To be mixed \vitli lime or marl. 
All yield earthy and saline matter^ in some degree. 
z' C Of Cows, contain water 65, phosp. of lime, 3, 
All more or less. 
W J muriates of potassa and ammonia lo, sulp. of 
1 J potassa 6, carbonates of potassa and ammonia 
URINES, 4, urea 4. 
J COf the Horse : carbon. lirae 11, carbon, soda 9, 
\» t iivea. 7, water and mucilage 940. 
To be diluted with water, and suffered 
URINES — Phosphate of lime, muriate of potassa 
and ammonia, sulphate of potassa, carbonate 
of potassa and ammonia, uren. 
( More powerful tban bones ; 600 grains of ox horn yield 
HORNj-J 488.5 grains of coagulated albumen, and 1 "part 
( phosphate of lime. 
Is rendered slowly soluble in water. 
HORN 1.5 in 500 grains of ox, phosphate of Hme. 
HAIR, fAnalagous in composition to horn, and 
WOOLLEN RAGS, -t consist of albumen united to gela- 
FEATHERS, ( tine. 
BONES ^ Consist of gelatine, albumen, animal oils and fat, 
The more divided the more powerful are their effects. 
The gelatine contains nitrogen. 
BONES contain phosp. carbon, sulphate and Buate of 
(Martdcr.) 
r Yields a brown extract to hot water ; also empyreumatie 
SOOT < charcoal, in a state capable of being rendered 
^ soluble by the action of oxygen and water ; and am- 
CHALK contains carbonate of lime. 
GYPSUM found in clovers, sainfoin, and all grasses, 
and in turnips in small quantity. It fixes am- 
MARL — Carbonate of lime. 
Lime (hot) decomposes vege- 
table fibre, and also unites 
lime with 318-5 humic 
MAKL. 
CHALK. 
tl^^'blade" 
dark green. 
•SALTPETRE is found in barley ; is always formed in 
NITRATE OF SODA Its fertilizing effects due tu 
the nitrogen principally. 
COMMON SALT, a direct constituent of many plants. 
Common Salt. With carbo- 
nate of lime salt forms 
muriate of lime, and the 
CLAY. 
Saltpetre 
probably 
the roots. 
Dr. I>rip»lky 
KELP AND SEA WEEDS contain carbonate of ^oda. 
proved si.lt 
ASHES OF PLANTS.— AH the saline inRrodients of 
the plants from which they were derived, to- 
gether with huinic acid and carbonate of potassa. 
Carbonate of soda in kelp. 
Carbonate of potassa in ashes. 
PEAT ASHES, some one-third to one-fourth gypsum. 
SULPHATE OF IRON, decomposed by carbonate of 
lime into carbonate of iron, and forms gypsum. 
Iron, when soluble, is preju- 
dicial. In the decompo- 
18 Oxygen. \ ArrflDged / >'li ■ ^ 
WPotnasa. j V 2 Oxm^! }Potassn. 
verted into sulphate of 
iron (a soluble salt), but 
by carbonate of lime there 
results gypsum and oxide 
of iron, which is inoffen- 
c^laincd in tho organic matters themselves. " °' 
sive. 
