Cyclopædia
Assuming manure is required, the following 3 results were found.
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ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES
and Piety, in Urns, for the Purpose. See FUNERAL, URN, etc. Ashes, of all Kinds,in Virtue of their Salt, make an excellent Manure for cold and wet Grounds. See MANURE. Hence that of Virgil, ——Ne pudeat, Effetos cinerem immundum jactare per agras....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID
and reciprocally, in the instance of Salt-petre, etc., plants feed on animals; inasmuch as their vegetation is excited by manure; it happens that what was real Salt-petre in plants becomes only a nitrous Sal Ammoniac in animals, and vice versa. The same...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGRICULTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGRICULTURE
in Agriculture are Manuring, Ploughing, Fallowing, Sowing, Harrowing; as also, Reaping, Mowing, &c. See the Articles MANURE, PLOUGHING, FALLOWING, SOWING, &c. To the Operations of Agriculture do also belong the Management of the Productions of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified