Elements of Agriculture: for the Use of Primary And Secondary Schools
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The first thing that a farmer should attend to, who wishes to lease or rent a farm, is the texture and depth of the soil. These are two properties that should have the greatest influence, not only upon his choice of rotations,* tut upon the cost of cultivation. Of two farms of equal E'xtent, one may cost twice as much to cultivate as the other. We may easily conceive, then, how important it is that the farmer should possess a thorough knowledge of the properties to which we allude. 72. The text...ure or consistency of a soil is nothing more than 'he degree of strength with which its molecules are bom*: to each other ; this is what is called cohesion. The more consistent a soil is, the harder it is to work, and the * A system of rotation is that by which, on a given piece of land, one crop fs made systematically to follow another. 52 ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. more impenetrable to .he roots of plants. A medium con- sistency agrees best with vegetation. This may be ob- tained by hauling upon the land a quantity of humus ; bu.
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