Scientific Agriculture: Or, The Elements of Chemistry, Geology, Botany and Meteorology, Applied to Practical AgricultureE. Darrow, 1848 - 296 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 234 - These simple machines are the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw.
Σελίδα 260 - " An extensive series of the stratified rocks, which compose the crust of the globe, with certain characters in common, which distinguish them from another series below them, called primary, and another above them, called tertiary.
Σελίδα 181 - ... a ready escape to the water, does not appear so evident, and is not unfrequently, therefore, a matter of considerable doubt and difficulty. It may be useful, then, briefly to state the several effects which in different localities are likely to follow an efficient drainage of the land : — 1°. It carries off all stagnant water, and gives a ready escape to the excess of what falls in rain. 2°. It...
Σελίδα 258 - A cluster ; a kind of inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged by simple pedicels on the sides of a common peduncle ; as the Currant (Rites).
Σελίδα 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.
Σελίδα 217 - Lime ..... Magnesia . Alumina . . Oxide of Iron . . Oxide of Manganese Silica .... Sulphuric Acid . Phosphoric...
Σελίδα 239 - Multiply the sectional area of the bottom flange in inches by the depth of the beam in inches, and divide the product by the distance between the supports also in inches ; and 514 times the quotient equal the absolute strength of the beam in cwts.
Σελίδα 218 - ... soda, lime, magnesia, alumina, oxide of iron, oxide of manganese, silica, sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid, and chlorine; the former class comprising oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon.
Σελίδα 173 - This happen* more speedily in some soils than in others. Thus from 106 Ibs. of dry soil, water will begin to drop— if it be a Quartz Sand, when it has absorbed 25 Ibs. Calcareous Sand .29 Loamy Soil . 40 English Chalk 45— J.
Σελίδα 149 - MORGANA is given to a strange meteoric phenomenon, nearly allied to the mirage, witnessed, in certain states of the tide and weather, in the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily, and occasionally, though rarely, on other coasts. It consists in the appearance, in the air over the surface of the sea.