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Gardening Science - Soils, Manure and the Environment
> Chapter 2: Manure
Chapter 2: Manure
Shell and sponge manures
Urine as a fertilizer
Horse urine fertilizer
Putrid urine
Bird dung - guano
Sea bird dung
Manures for promoting vegetable growth
Substances for soil manures and fertilizers
Organic and inorganic manures and fertilizers
Plant foods
Organic plant manures and fertilizers
Animal plant manures and fertilizers
Organic substances for manures and fertilizers
Decomposing organic manures
The proper time for applying organic manures
The process of decay in compost
The properties and nature of manures and fertilizers
Green manuring
Rape cake as a manure
Malt dust as a manure
Sea weed manuring
Peaty manuring
Wood ash manures and fertilizers
Yeast in manures and fertilizers
Farmyard manures and fertilizers
Animal carcases as manures
Fish manure
Blubber as a manure
Bonemeal
Hoof and horn meal
Skin and leather fertilizers
Blood manure
Night soil as a manure
Pegeon dung as a fertiliser
Domestic fowl fertilizer
Rabbits dung manure
Cattle dung farmyard manure
Sheep and deer dung manure
Horse dung manure
Street and road dung
Soot
Liquid manure
Managemen t of organic manure
Composting for gardeners
Humus and humic acid
Humic acid and carbonic acid
Liebig on stable manure
Thus the practical cultivator
Inorganic manure
Various earthy and saline substances
Earthy matters
Salts
Lime, magnesia, and alumina,
Carbonic acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid, sulphuric acid
Earthy and saline matters
Saline substances found in plants
Inorganic alkaline manures
Lime and liming
Quicklime
Liming peat bogs
General principles for applying lime
Different kinds of limestones
Magnesian limestone
Limestone and magnesia effervesce
Gypsum
The nature of gypsum
The ashes of saintfoin, clover, and rye-grass
Phosphate of lime
Lime compounds
Saline compounds of magnesia
Wood-ashes
Soda from sea-weed
Nitric acid
Soot as a fertilizer
Soapers' waste
Salts as manures
Compost