 The reason why drainage prevents injury from drought is to be found in the fact that draining " deepens the soil," and " lengthens the season." It is a well-known fact that a deep and mellow soil retains moisture much better than a shallow and compact...  The Cultivator Vol. VI Third Series 1858 - Stran 274avtor: Offfice of the Country Gentleman - 1858Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Henry Flagg French - 1859 - 408 strani
...They show, again, that more water is held by a pulverized and open soil, than by a compact and close one. Water is held in the soil between the minute...compactly, there is no space left between them for water. The same is true of soil naturally compact. This compactness exists more or less in most subsoils,... | |
 | John Hancock Klippart - 1860 - 724 strani
...They show, again, that more water is held by a pulverized and open soil, than by a compact and close 'one. Water is held in the soil between the minute...compactly, there is no space left between them for water. The same is true of soil naturally compact. This compactness exists more or less in most subsoils,... | |
 | John Hancock Klippart - 1861 - 486 strani
...well-known fact that a deep and mellow soil retains moisture much better than a shallow and compact one. " ' Water is held in the soil between the minute...permeable to water, compared with the same when broken up, pulverized and mellowed. The one is porous and drinks in moisture like a sponge; the other absorbs... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1865 - 766 strani
...well-known fact that a deep and mellow soil retains moisture much better than a shallow and compact one. " ' Water is held in the soil between the minute...permeable to water, compared with the same when broken up, pulverized and mellowed. The one is porous and drinks in moisture like a sponge ; the other absorbs... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1865 - 768 strani
...well-known fact that a deep and mellow soil retains moisture much better than a shallow and compact one. " ' Water is held in the soil between the minute...permeable to water, compared with the same when broken up, pulverized and mellowed. The one is porous and drinks in moisture like a sponge; the other absorbs... | |
 | Duncan George Forbes Macdonald - 1865 - 618 strani
...They show, again, that more water is held by a pulverized and open soil, than by a compact and close one. Water is held in the soil between the minute...compactly, there is no space left between them for water. The same is true of soil naturally compact. This compactness exists more or less in most subsoils,... | |
 | John Hancock Klippart - 1867 - 478 strani
...well-known fact that a deep and mellow soil retains moisture much better than a shallow and compact one. " ' Water is held in the soil between the minute...permeable to water, compared with the same when broken up, pulverized and mellowed. The one is porous and drinks in moisture like a sponge; the other absorbs... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 636 strani
...They show, again, that more water is held by a pulverized and open soil, than by a compact and close one. Water is held in the soil between the minute...compactly, there is no space left between them for water. The same is true of eoil naturally compact. This compactness exists more or less in most subsoils,... | |
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