Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 1. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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Page 231
... dung - hills , especially where there has been much litter , and it hath not been penetrated by wet so as to rot ; it may also be found very often in old hot - beds ; or it may be procured by mixing fome long dung from the ftable ...
... dung - hills , especially where there has been much litter , and it hath not been penetrated by wet so as to rot ; it may also be found very often in old hot - beds ; or it may be procured by mixing fome long dung from the ftable ...
Page 246
... dung on a field with the confent of the proprietor , he was by law allowed the ufe of that land for one year . If the dung was carried Thus , though the Britons had in a great measure loft the knowledge of agriculture , they appear to ...
... dung on a field with the confent of the proprietor , he was by law allowed the ufe of that land for one year . If the dung was carried Thus , though the Britons had in a great measure loft the knowledge of agriculture , they appear to ...
Page 247
... dung , feems ftill to have been marl . Summer fal- lowing of lands defigned for wheat , and ploughing them feveral times , appear to have been frequent prac- tices of the English farmers in this period . We are , after all , very much ...
... dung , feems ftill to have been marl . Summer fal- lowing of lands defigned for wheat , and ploughing them feveral times , appear to have been frequent prac- tices of the English farmers in this period . We are , after all , very much ...
Page 248
... dung - hills , and his judicious obfervations on the fertilizing qualities lodged in falt , ftreet - dirt , and the fullage of streets in great cities , clay , fuller's earth , moorifh earths , dung - hills made in layers , fern , hair ...
... dung - hills , and his judicious obfervations on the fertilizing qualities lodged in falt , ftreet - dirt , and the fullage of streets in great cities , clay , fuller's earth , moorifh earths , dung - hills made in layers , fern , hair ...
Page 252
... dung of dif ferent kinds .- ( 1 . ) The lime , chalk , marl , and fhells , are all found to be of the fame nature . The marl differs from the reft , only in having a mixture of clay along Theory fixed alkali employed in Lord Kames's ...
... dung of dif ferent kinds .- ( 1 . ) The lime , chalk , marl , and fhells , are all found to be of the fame nature . The marl differs from the reft , only in having a mixture of clay along Theory fixed alkali employed in Lord Kames's ...
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