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Excerpt from For the Analysis of Soils, Limestones, and Manures This little work is not intended to compete with treatises on chemical analysis, such as those of Rose and Fresenius, which are the text-books of the accomplished analyst. Originally published as an Appendix to my Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, it has been much in demand also in a separate form. I have, therefore, given to this third edition a more widely practic...

Excerpt from Notes on North America, Vol. 1 of 2: Agricultural, Economical, and Social In addition to the matters usually commented upon by those who visit foreign countries, the reader will find in these volumes a kind and class of observations which he will not have met with in other books of travels. And though I may appear to incur the risk of injuring their popularity with the general public by introducing agricultural remarks, yet, in t...

Excerpt from Notes North America, Vol. 2: Agricultural, America Economical and Social Dalhousie to Bathurst. - Red land and thriving farms. - Free Church minister from the island of Arran in Scotland. - His dissatisfaction with the country. - The system of barter a necessity of a new country. - Settlers from Ayrshire. - Their prosperity, and opinion of New Brunswick. - Petit Rocher. - Kind of land possessed by the Acadian French. - Their reti...

Excerpt from Experimental Agriculture: Being the Results of Past, and Suggestions for Future Experiments in Scientific in Scientific and Practical Agriculture When, about eight years ago, my attention was first closely directed to scientific agriculture, I was surprised to find in agricultural works so few rigorous experimental data on which to base safe opinions of my own, or by which to test the published opinions of others. With the view o...

Excerpt from Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology Honorary Member or the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and Author of Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 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 reco...

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Excerpt from Lectures on the General Relations Which Science Bears to Practical Agriculture, Delivered Before the New-York State Agricultural SocietyThe first of these branches, the one I am to present before you this evening, comprehends the relations of physical geography to practical.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and GeologyIn introducing this little work to the notice of the American public, Iam encouraged by the hope that a conviction as to the importance of the new know ledge of which it treats, already fixed in~ many minds, will soon become universal. Agriculture, the art in whichtnine-tenths of the capital of civil ised nations is embarked, upon which all depend for subsistence, is rising towardsits...

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Excerpt from The State of Agriculture in Europe: An Address Delivered at the Annual Exhibition of the New York State Agricultural Society at Syracuse, September 13th, 1849 Saxony. - In Saxony, a country greatly favored by na ture in the character of its soils, the chief attention of the great landholders and of the government, has been long directed to the improvement of the breed of sheep, from which the celebrated Saxon wool is obtained. Th...

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Excerpt from The Chemistry of Common Life Of its fascination. In the number and variety of striking illustrations, in the simplicity of its style, and in the close ness and cogency of its arguments, Professor Johnston's 'chemistry of Common Life has as yet found no equal among the many books of a similar character which its success originated, and it steadily maintains its pre-emin ence in the popular scientific literature of the day. About ...

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