The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-14
A Agricultural.
ADVANTAGES OF PTLTERIZ!NG THE SOIL.

al ADVANTAGES OF PtLiERIZ!NG THE SOIL.
The advantages of pulve,izing or stir
ring the soil are numerous:
l. 1t gives free scope to the roots of
1 vegetables; and they become more fib-
rous in loose than in hard soil, by
which the mouths or pores become
more numerous, and such food as is in
i the soil has a better chance of being
sought after and taken up by them.
>. 1t admits the atmospheric air to
the SpongioleS OF the roots-without
which no plant can make healthy
growth
3. 1t increases the capillary attraction
or sponge-like property of soils by
which their humidity is rendered more
uniform; and in hot season it increases
the deposit dew, and admits it to the
roots.
+. 1t increases the temperature of the
soil in the spling, by admitting the
warm air and tepid rain.
5. 1t increases the supply of organic
food. The atmosphere contains carbon
ic acid, ammonia, and nitric acid, all
most powerful fertilizers and solvents.
y loose soil attracts and condenses them.
Rain and dew also contain them. And
when these fertilizing gases are carried
in to the soil by rain water, they are
absorbed and retained by the soil, for
the use of plants. On the other hand,
if the soil is hard, the water runs off the
surface and instead of leaving these
gases in the soil, carries off some of the
I best portions of the soil with it. Thus
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jury.
6. By means pulverizing, portion
of the atmospheric air is buried in the
soil, and it is supposed that ammonia
and nitric acid are formed by the mutu-
al decomposition ofthe air and the mois-
ture of the soil--heat also being evolved
by the changes.
l. Pulverization ofthe surface of soils
serves to retain the moisture in the sub
soil, and to prevent it from being pene-
trated by heat from a warmer, as well
as from radiating its heat to colder at
mosphere than itself These effects are
produced by the porosity of the pulver-
ized stratum, which acts as mulch, es-
peclally on heavy soils.
s. Pulverization. also, has the com
bned effect of several of the preceding
causes, accelerates the decomposition of
the organic matter in the soil, and the
disintegration of the mineral matter;
the soil for assimilation by the plants.
-GeUesee EG,yneer.
The RAINING TREE.-The island of
Flerro Is one of the largest in the Cana
ry Group, and it has received it's name
on account Of its iron-bound soil,
Ihrough which no river or stream flows.
IL mas also but very few wells, and those
not very good. But the great Preser-
yer ana HuStalner of all, remedies this
IIncohVehlehce III way so extraordinary,
.naC man Will be forged to acknowledge
mat Tie gives i'll this, an undeniable de-
4IlolisUration OF His wonderful goodness.
III tie midst OF the island there grows
'ree, the leaves Of which are long and
narrow, and continue in constant ver-
"uFe wmterand summer, and the branch
are covered with a cloud which is
ner et dispelled. but, resolving itself into
" moisture, causes to fall from it's leaves
Every very Clear water, in such abundance
IT, 'a. elS'erhs placed at its foot to receive |
''eF empty.
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D, 1N WHAT HARD Work CAN ACCOM-
dustn; d-As an evidence of what an in
bIaoI. bI.'o"S S man can do, be he white or
barJ "nGn once he sets his mind to !
freod .% dr work, we produce the case of a
wos '''ilh named Albert Woodson, who
Gw,t,em employed by Mr. George N.
III" quincy, in Cumberland county at
boarSS rS'f : OF ten dollars per month and
bcsiIa bn l9r 9t one year. During the year,
bnnJrsIh b,1rs his regular wages, he made one
toba"aad bred and eighty-six dollars worth of
Corn Corr ana thirty-fve dollars worth of
fort amounting to three hundred and
as moSt ,Une dollars. This is about as much
out the S"nl sppa mechanics receive thorugh-
lodo;mo. seanp-.lncluding the board and
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