The manures most advantageously applicable to the various sorts of soils, and the causes of their beneficial effect in each particular instance / By Richard Kirwan.

  • Richard Kirwan
Date:
1796
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Credit: The manures most advantageously applicable to the various sorts of soils, and the causes of their beneficial effect in each particular instance / By Richard Kirwan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 9° ] they fliould then be analyzed, &nd the defec- tive principles fupplied. Lime is faid to de- droy heath, and fo is limedone-gravel : this is fitted when the foil is clayey; lime when it is gravelly Gypfum alfo anfwers remarka- bly well when the foils are dry. ’ * ^ Of fome particular Manures* -i ; • • We have now dated mod of the known foils, and mentioned the manures which tend mod to their improvement: there are, how- ever, fome others whofe mode of aftion is not generally underdood, and whofe nature itwill therefore be proper to explain. } ' r * ' 4 OJ Paring and Burning. p *.• . * {j. . .• YX ■ Tht^mode of improvement is not particular to any fpecies of foil, though poor foils that have few vegetables growing in them, will certainly profit lead by it. 1 Its advantages are, * r f • * Firft, That it converts vegetables and their roots into coal. Hence it is that agricultural writers •J- 4th Young’s Eaftern Tour, 396. J Iri(h Tour, 212.