. The principles of agriculture; a text-book for schools and rural societies . more numerous these particles the more luxuriantly the plantwill grow. His system of tillage, however, was correct, and hisexperiments and writings have had a most profound only one book of all the thousands which have been written onagriculture and rural afEairs were to be preserved to future gen- THE TEXTURE OF THE SOIL 45 erations, I should want that honor conferred upon Tulls HorseHoeing Husbandry. It marked the beginning of the modemapplication of scientific methods to agriculture, and promulgateda
. The principles of agriculture; a text-book for schools and rural societies . more numerous these particles the more luxuriantly the plantwill grow. His system of tillage, however, was correct, and hisexperiments and writings have had a most profound only one book of all the thousands which have been written onagriculture and rural afEairs were to be preserved to future gen- THE TEXTURE OF THE SOIL 45 erations, I should want that honor conferred upon Tulls HorseHoeing Husbandry. It marked the beginning of the modemapplication of scientific methods to agriculture, and promulgateda system of treatment of the land which, in its essential princi-ples, is now accepted by every good farmer, and the appreciationof which must increase to the end of time.—Bailey, Bull. 119,Cornell Exp. Sta. Tull died in 1740. 57fl. The actual contour of the water-table in an under-drained field, where the lines of tile are placed at distances of33 feet and 4 feet below the surface of the ground, is shown inFig. 8, which gives the contours as they existed forty-eight hours. Fig. 8. Showing the actual contour of the water-table in a tile-draiued field. after a rainfall of .87 inches. In this case the height of thewater midway between the lines of tile varied from 4 inches to12 inches above the tops of the tile.—King, The Soil, p. 259. 58rt. Bead Roberts Fertility of the Land, pp. 303-312, onthe physical effects of liming land ; also The Soil, p. 30, andWheelers Liming of Soils, Farmers Bulletin No. 77, U. Agric. The effects of lime in flocculating or mellowingclay may be observed by working up a ball of stiff clay withcommon water and a similar ball with lime water ; the formerwill become hard on drying, but the latter will readily fall topieces. Lime water may be made by shaking up a lump of limein a bottle of water. 60a. One of the most forcible illustrations of the value offine texture of soil is afforded by the result which the florist 45 THE PRINCIPLES OF AGRICUL
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