On agricultural chemistry : and the nature and properties of Peruvian guano / by J.C. Nesbit.

  • Nesbit, J. C. (John Collis), 1818-1862.
Date:
[1856?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On agricultural chemistry : and the nature and properties of Peruvian guano / by J.C. Nesbit. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURES ON AURICultural chemistry. ON GENERAL AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, AND THE NATURE AND APPLICATION OF MANURES. In appearing before you for the purpose of offering some remarks on the nature of manures, it will not for a moment be sup- posed that I pretend to he capable of teaching you the or- dinary routine of practical farming. I aim only at illustrating your practice by observations and instances; and, as I conceive that we are all benefited by having some leading idea to connect together as a whole the scattered facts with which we become acquainted in our ordinary intercourse with things around us, so I think it possible to convey to you this evening that which will place you in a position to combine many of the facts of which you are cognisant, and which will probably induce you to modify your farming operations, in many cases, with considerable advantage. What I shall endeavour to do, then, is to show “ of what manure actually consists, its real sources, and how it may most readily be obtained.” It is my intention first to take the most general view of which the subject will admit, and then to gradually enter into details and particulars in which you are all interested. If, therefore, for the first few minutes, you appear to be led away a little from the subject, you will afterwards per- ceive the connection. B