. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 1350 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, first additional. By this means every superficial inch is allowed to be productive. Th
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 1350 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, first additional. By this means every superficial inch is allowed to be productive. There is no carrying away of the surface by accumulated currents of water; and the water falling as rain, is left to percolate through the soil where it falls, thereby uniformly enriching the whole extent. There is a powerful process of nature much facilitated by complete draining and deep working, viz., the constant circulation of air to and from the bottom of the soil, produced by the constantly varying relative temperatures of the atmosphere and the earth. When heavy rain falls, the air is completely expelled from the interstices of the soil, the water taking its place. Also, when the rain has ceased to fall, the water gradually subsides to the level of the drains, or, at all events, to the level of the bottom of the subsoil that has been moved by the plough, and fresh air takes its place throughout the soil; thereby promoting doubly a chemical action vastly con. ducive to the decomposition of the soil and the manure it contains; and, of course, to the nourishment of plants. When land is uniformly and completely dry and deep in the soil, it is more easily wrought; it can be wrought at any time when it does not rain ; it comes to a state proper for sowing earlier, and more uniformly ; a circumstance of great importance in our climate : it affords a wide and uninterrupted range for the roots of plants; it resists the evil effects of long droughts, as well as of long periods of
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