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The Rural Magazine - Volume 1, No. 5

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. . .s a presumption, that it is an efficient agent in vegetation. Nollet and others have thought that, artificially employed, it favoured the germination of seeds and the growth of plants; and Mr. Davy "found, that corn sprouted more rapidly in water, positively electrified by the voltaic battery, than in water negatively electrified."[8] These opinions have not escaped contradiction, and we do not profess to decide where doctors disagree.

5th. Of stable yard manures, lime, marl, and gypsum, and their agency in vegetation:

We have already said, that vegetables in the last stage of decomposition, yield a black or brown powder, which Mr. Davy calls "a peculiar extractive matter, of fertilizing quality," and which the chymists of France have denominated terreau. This vegetable residuum is the simple mean employed by nature to re-establish that principle of fertility in the soil, which the wants of man and other animals are constantly drawing from i. . . Read More