This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...The fatty mutter is concentrated in the leaves and in the ear; the saccharine matter in the leaves and stalk, and mostly in the lower part of the stalk. The following table indicates the concentration of saccharine matter in the leaves and stalk: Each part contributes The different parts to whole. Leaves 2.C4 22.36 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...The fatty mutter is concentrated in the leaves and in the ear; the saccharine matter in the leaves and stalk, and mostly in the lower part of the stalk. The following table indicates the concentration of saccharine matter in the leaves and stalk: Each part contributes The different parts to whole. Leaves 2.C4 22.36 Tassel 07 59 Ears 1.93 16.41 Upper part stalk.67 5.69 Middle part stalk 2.17 18.45 Lower part stalk 4.29 36.50 11.77 100.00 Cellulose substance is, as we would expect, in large proportion in the stalk, and mostly toward the lower part of it. It is principally in the leaves and ear, Avith stem, that the starch and the other principles which are neither cellulose nor nitrogenous nor mineral, are found. CENTESIMAL COMPOSITION OF THE ASHES OF EACH PART OF THE PLANT, AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAME. The above table shows that the ears are the richest in phosphoric acid and potash. These also contain the largest percentage of soda, the least of lime and silex. As to the distribution of each mineral element in the different parts of the plant, it is necessary, in order to study it thoroughly, to enter into a more detailed and separate examination. Phosphoric acid or phosphorus plays an important part in agriculture, not because it is more indispensable to vegetation than several other elements, but because nature has not distributed it with so much profusion in all lands or in the atmosphere as certain other elements that on that account are considered secondary. Indeed, there is not any one element in vegetation of any greater importance than another, and if any person judges otherwise it is because he places himself at the point of view of an agriculturist who, having need to produce certain crops of a special kind, needs to accumulate such elements as e...
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