Essay on the Use of Nitrate of Soda

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Excerpt from Essay on the Use of Nitrate of Soda: For Manure and the Best Mode of Its Employment Farmers and gardeners sometimes express surprise( that agricultural chemists talk so much about nitrogen. When it is known, however, that of all the organic matter of plants and manures - in other words, all the matter which is driven off by burning - the only element of any direct value as plant-food is nitrogen, it will be readily seen that nitrogen is entitled to even greater attention than it at present receives. Farmers and gardeners and fruit growers fully recognize the value of barn-yard manure. In a ton of ordinary manure, containing$ percent, of water, there is 1, 275 pounds of organic matter and 225 pounds of ash. Except for its mechanical and indirect benefit to the soil, all the manurial value of this 1, 275. pounds organic matter is due to the nitrogen which it contains. Is it any wonder, therefore, that we hear so much about nitrogen? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.