The farmers companion; or, Essays on the principles and practice of American husbandry
Автор:Jesse Buel Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 106 ISBN: 1231114398 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...as to permit the free circulation of air and moisture through all its interstices, and through its mass. The air and dews, we repeat, are charged with the elements of fertility, and the more freely they are permitted to penetrate the soil, the more benefit will they impart to the crop. Good after-culture implies, the keeping of the ground free from weeds, which rob the crop of its food, thinning the plants to a proper distance, and keeping the surface mellow, or open to atmospheric influence. If the soil is dry, and rich, and deep, and well pulverized, the labors of the husbandman will yet not avail much, in root crops, if he neglects either to destroy weeds, to thin, when necessary, his plants, or to keep the surface loose and open. But these latter requisites to success may...
