 | Edmund Ruffin - Fertilizers - 1852 - 516 pages
...grain, and of penning cattle, managed with only an inferior degree of skill, in union with enclosing, I will venture to affirm that a farm may in ten years...double its produce, and in twenty to quadruple it." No opinions could be more strongly or unconditionally expressed than these. No reservation or exception... | |
 | United States. National Conservation Commission - Natural resources - 1909 - 870 pages
...the litter of Indian corn and of small grain, and by penning cattle, managed with only an inferior degree of skill, in union with inclosing, I will venture...to reap good crops from neglecting his manures is equally a fanatic with the religionist who expects heaven from neglecting big morals. In regard to... | |
 | United States. National Conservation Commission - 1909 - 862 pages
...the litter of Indian corn aud of small grain, and by penning cattle, managed with only an inferior degree of skill, in union with inclosing, I will venture...its Increased value is, of course, still greater. In regard to the combination of manures the author says: Gypsum, clover, and inclosing, working in... | |
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... of their value. There is no farinaceous plant which furnishes so rich and so plentiful a crop as the Indian corn. It yields food in abundance for men, beast, and laud. By the litter of Indian corn and of small grain, and by penning cattle, managed... 