 ... water,, it is evident that, other conditions being present, the largest aggregate surface area may retain the most water per cubic foot. Now, a cubic foot of marbles one inch in diameter possesses an aggregate surface of 27.7 square feet while if...  The Principles of Fruit-growing - Side 153af Liberty Hyde Bailey - 1897 - 508 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Franklin Hiram King - 1895 - 336 sider
...aggregate surface of 37.7 square feet, while if the marbles were reduced in diameter to one one-thousandth of an inch, then the total area per cubic foot is increased to 37,700 square feet. From these differences it is evident that the amounts of water coarse and fine grained soils retain will... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - 1897 - 886 sider
...aggregate surface of 27.7 square feet, while if the marbles were reduced in diameter to one-thousandth of an inch, then the total area per cubic foot is increased tn 37,700 square fret." THE CONSERVATION OF MOISTURE. Prof. Clinton, in one of the bulletins of the... | |
 | New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1897 - 1464 sider
...aggregate surface of 27.7 square feet while if the marbles were reduced in diameter to one-thousandth of an inch, then the total area per cubic foot is...power of holding moisture is also greatly reduced. King found the rate of percolation from soils of different degrees of fineness to be as follows, the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - 1897 - 886 sider
...aggregate surface of 27.7 square feet, while if the marbles were reduced in diameter to one-thousandth of an inch, then the total area per cubic foot is increased to 37.700 equareJfeet" THE CONSERVATION OF MOISTURE. Prof. Clinton, in one of the bulletins of the Cornell... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - 1898 - 950 sider
...if the marble were reduced in diameter to one-thousandth of an inch, then the total area per CUDIC foot is increased to 37,700 square feet.' From this...power of holding moisture is also greatly reduced. King found the rate of percolation from soils of different degrees of fineness to be as follows, the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - 1898 - 954 sider
...one-thousandth of an inch, then the total area per CUDIC foot is increased to 37,700 square feet.' Prom this it is evident that the total amount of water...power of holding moisture is also greatly reduced. King found the rate of percolation from soils of different degrees of fineness to be as follows, the... | |
 | William Macdonald - 1909 - 330 sider
...total area per cubic foot is increased to 27,700 square feet. From this little problem it is clear that the total amount of water capable of being absorbed by a soil which is cloddy and lumpy must be very small in comparison with that in a finely divided state, and not only is the absorbing... | |
 | Western Australia. Department of Agriculture - 1909 - 886 sider
...total area per cubic foot is increased to ,'i7,7O0 square feel. From this little problem it is clear that the total amount of water capable of being absorbed by a soil which is cloddy and lumpy must be very small in comparison to that in a finely divided state, and not only is i lte absorbing... | |
 | Liberty Hyde Bailey - 1915 - 462 sider
...aggregate surface of 27.7 square feet, while if the marbles were reduced in diameter to one-thousandth of an inch, then the total area per cubic foot is...square feet." From this it is evident that the total quantity of water capable of being absorbed by a soil that is cloddy and lumpy is very slight in comparison... | |
 | Liberty Hyde Bailey - 1915 - 452 sider
...by a soil that is cloddy and lumpy is very slight in comparison with the quantity when the soil is in a finely divided state; and not only is its absorbing...power of holding moisture is also greatly reduced. Harrowing to save moisture. The harrow, besides pulverizing and fining the soil for the seed-bed, is... | |
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