Excerpt from Agricultural Chemistry: A Familiar Explanation of the Chemical Principles Involved in the Operations of the Farm As most of the operations of agriculture are an exten sion or adaptation of those of Nature, it follows that all the chemical changefl involved in the phenomena of ger mination, growth, development of seeds, and final decay of plants, as well as the more important changes belong ing to animal life, must be included in the Chemistry of Agriculture. This subject will also include the changes that accompany the alteration in the quality of land, either for the worse, by exhaustion or mismanagement, or for the better, as in the reclamation of waste lands and the restoration of those whose fertility has become impaired by culture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.