Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Field Book of Manures, or the American Muck Book: Treating of the Nature, Properties, Sources, History, and Operations of All the Principal Fertilisers and Manures in Common Use, With Specific Directions for Their Preparation, Preservation, and Application to the Soil and to Crops
The general rule is, that cropping exhausts. However good lands may haw/c been originally, they cannot give always without receiving. The essential elements of fertility, taken off by continued cropping. Must, in some form, be returned. Lands originally fertile must be manured to keep them fertile.
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