| 单词 | vegetable matter |
| 例句 | Dead fish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The air was heavy and full of smoke, and of other smells besides: acrid chemicals, decaying vegetable matter, sewage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The dirt came off, although the ridges were stained with vegetable matter. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The slime was bat guano, digested vegetable matter that had been excreted by a colony of fruit bats on the ceiling. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She rounded up more organic materials: hay, leaves, straw, seaweed, pine needles, sawdust, weeds, garbage and rotting vegetable matter. More vegetables, less work: Lessons from the mother of mulch 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The vegetable matter is peeled, plucked and trimmed into a messy heap that is larger than the center bit we manage to save. Diving Into the Artichoke, That Delicious Mess 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The Book as object, as specks of ink splattered on decaying vegetable matter, tenaciously clinging to the bookshop shelf as the internet gushes forth its infinite flood of blogposts, status updates and indie-published ebooks. China Miéville was the star turn at the Edinburgh International Book festival 2012-08-24T14:52:58Z But for me, six cloves of garlic and a sprinkle of parsley is all the vegetable matter I need. A weeknight pasta dinner that involves very few ingredients and almost no effort 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Eating them together is pretty rare.” 6-I know, what I have shown is not that our ancestors were vegetarians but instead that they tended to mostly eat vegetable matter. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z As well as eating what grew, she made art out of it: Her rangy figures that she refers to as “future ancestors” are made from braided palm leaves, corn stalks and other desiccated vegetable matter. 5 Artists to Watch at the California Biennial 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “When in fact, it’s just a string of vegetable matter.” Parasite cleanses are ‘modern snake oil.’ Experts explain why. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Fermenting vegetable matter — it was believed a temperature of between 67 and 75 degrees was most conducive to creating malaria — generated “carbonic acid gas.” Perspective | In the 1880s, D.C.’s doctors argued about malaria and its cause 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z The bodies were wrapped in a sitting position in several layers of fabric, the first of cotton and the second of vegetable matter. Chan Chan: Mass grave found in ancient Peruvian city 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z If not using a weight or airlock, make sure the vegetable matter is below the brine or it will mold. Fermenti Foods fights food insecurity with fermentation 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z They like it white-fleshed and flaky, not dark and oily, beneath a soft carapace of vegetable matter. The Flavor Enhancer You Don’t Need to Tell Anyone About 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He explained: “The quantity of nutritious vegetable matter consumed in fattening the carcass of an ox would afford 10 times the sustenance if gathered immediately from the bosom of the earth.” Could VAT on meat help us save the planet? | Simon Fairlie 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “Having it be delicious isn’t necessarily the point,” he says of the desiccated vegetable matter. Why chefs love dehydrators, plus some recipes you might actually try 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The hogs eat a pre-mixed exotic animal feed containing chicken meal, wheat, dried insects and vegetable matter. Tokyo's hedgehog cafe: Spiky success or thorny welfare worry? - BBC News 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “They use local matter, like dead vegetable matter, and transform them into geometry and form,” African textiles meet modernist architecture in Adjaye show 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z They found that the more vegetable matter a plant caught, the larger it grew. Some Carnivorous Plants Are Mostly Vegetarians With aged, glossy surfaces broken by newer, rougher razor edges, the flint tools were part of a vast collection of knives apparently used for butchering, cleaning animal hides and cutting vegetable matter. Lessons From an Ancient Time When Recyclers Walked the Earth 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “If you’re ever combining any protein with any vegetable matter, your blood sugar is going to stay pretty even keeled.” The Great Potato Debate: Healthy or Not? 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The writer of the article characterizes it as a mix of “decomposed vegetable matters; the filth left there by thousands of passing animals; all conceivable sources of dirt, and all degrees of rottenness.” Heat-Struck, July 1852 2013-07-26T22:54:39Z Biomass – trees, plants and other waste vegetable matter – is an abundant and rapidly renewable source of starch and sugars, that is nowadays used to produce biofuels. Sweet hydrogen: how sugar could fulfil our energy needs 2013-07-19T06:00:11Z The maggots decompose and convert organic vegetable matter or flesh from slaughterhouse scraps into the amino acids and proteins needed by fish and chickens for their diet. Can Soil Replace Oil as a Source of Energy? [Excerpt] 2013-04-05T18:15:00.207Z The device is definitely not just an excuse to blast vegetable matter across the back yard: It also illustrates Boyle’s law, which describes the relationship between pressure and volume of gas. Solar system contains plenty of water; science experiments require supervision 2012-06-25T19:34:45Z The components of soil, including decaying leaves, roots and other vegetable matter, store at least twice as much carbon as the chemicals in the atmosphere, according to United Nations climate reports. Green Blog: Warming Will Unlock Carbon in Forests, Study Warns 2012-06-11T21:41:09Z Our earth thus daily receives from heaven even more riches than she gives in flower and fruit, and grass, and vegetable matter. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z A simple primordial cell or utricle, the most simply organized being, whether animal or vegetable matters little. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z They occur on the trunks of trees and on foliage, and feed on lichens and other dried vegetable matter. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Chicago has acres of rotting vegetable matter inside the corporation every autumn. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z The cellar was constantly filled with water during the winter, and just before the outbreak had contained not only an unusually large quantity, but also a large amount of decaying vegetable matter. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Since animal and vegetable matters are constantly being burned upon the earth's surface, naturally the air contains a perceptible quantity of carbon dioxide. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Parasitic and saprophytic forms may also readily be obtained by breeding, the former as in the case of the parasitic Hymenoptera, and the latter from decaying vegetable matter and fungi. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Dead fish are frequently thus luminous, and brilliant phosphorescence is often an accompaniment of decomposition of both animal and vegetable matter. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Ehrenberg found that it was vegetable matter which gave to the Red Sea its characteristic name. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z They found that the coal was once vegetable matter. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Preparation.—It is prepared in three degrees of strength: No. I. Is the water that stood on decomposed vegetable matter for one week at a temperature of 90� F. No. II. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Certain species are also found about ponds, under rotten logs, the bark of trees, and particularly in decaying vegetable matter. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z The dace feeds on worms, insects, insect-larvae, and also on vegetable matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z One cannot believe that even in unhealthy places, where the water frequently is very impure and unhealthy, owing to vegetable matters held in solution, the use of strong spirituous liquors must needs be unavoidable. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z They feed on vegetable matter, both in the water and on shore. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z Is the water that decomposed vegetable matter for two weeks. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Boyle grew various vegetables in water only, and thought that he had thus changed water into solid vegetable matter. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z A very important part assigned to insects in the economy of nature, as we shall hereafter show, is that of speedily removing superabundant and decaying animal and vegetable matter. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z The nest is usually placed among coarse herbage by the bank of a lake or river, and is constructed of decayed vegetable matter, lined with down and feathers, and contains from ten to fifteen eggs. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z One idea is that it is due to the decomposition of animal and vegetable matter. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Is the water that decomposed vegetable matter for three weeks. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z In the situations alluded to, we generally find poisonous and noxious plants, with an abundance of decayed vegetable matter. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z They feed principally on decaying animal or vegetable matter, and are no doubt useful as scavengers. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z There are, even on the hillsides, many small ridges and depressions, partly belonging to the original distribution of the soil, and partly occasioned by irregularities in the growth and deposit of vegetable matter. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Surface water mixed with confervoids and decomposed vegetable matter, and the deeper currents of water which pass through the rotten limestones, are, during the summer, the fruitful sources of intestinal disorders. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The decomposition of the vegetable matter passed through three stages or degrees. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z All decayed animal and vegetable matter tends to corrupt water, and render it unfit for the purposes of life. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z The abundant lime in dead leaves is active in the formation of humus, which is decayed vegetable matter. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The latter embrace some of our most troublesome pests, especially as they consume vegetable matters, in the perfect as well as in the larval condition, and in both stages are exceedingly voracious. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Populations of T. ornata observed under natural conditions were chiefly carnivorous, although captives ate a variety of animal and vegetable matter. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z It was prepared in three degrees of strength: No. I is the water that stood on decomposed vegetable matter for one week at a temperature of 90 degrees. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Another of his papers dealt with the delusions of the philosopher’s stone, but nevertheless he believed that iron could be artificially formed in the combustion of vegetable matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z What goes for crude oil also applies to the stuff squeezed out of vegetable matter. Vegetable oil: What?s cooking? 2011-09-15T10:17:42Z Those that did, could be described only as holding mysterious, dirty-looking powders, lumps of incomprehensible substances, or masses of desiccated vegetable matter of powerful and most abominable flavour. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z Properly speaking, water is no article of food, if by that term we understand only animal and vegetable matter. Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes 2011-08-29T02:01:12.927Z No. II is the water that decomposed vegetable matter for two weeks. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z But the earth is treacherous on its banks—formed of decayed branches, leaves, and vegetable matter, hidden under a thin covering of aquatic grasses. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Finally came the weed said to have been imported from America, pushing its way up-stream, and filling it with an abominable mass of vegetable matter that no fish could enter. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Look at a cabbage-leaf, it is riddled with holes; the grub has consumed all that vegetable matter, and I will inform you for what purpose. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The western side, which is of very recent formation, consists of a flat shore plain of coralline alluvium, mixed with decayed vegetable matter and loam brought down from the hill. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z No. III is the water that decomposed vegetable matter for three weeks, and it is fearfully offensive. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z The air still smelt vilely of smouldering vegetable matter. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The water had a brownish tinge where it oozed out of the soil, and gave forth an unpleasant smell, as though of decaying vegetable matter. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z The rafts thus formed in time became consolidated by the deposition of earthy materials, leaves, twigs and vegetable matter, and are covered with a rank growth of vegetation, at first shrubby, but at last arboreous. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z This will make a nice cool, moist bottom of slowly-rotting vegetable matter. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Coal in like manner consists of carbonised vegetable matter, retaining more or less perfectly its organic structure, and sometimes even the external forms of its constituent parts. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z Muck is merely a dark soil, containing or consisting mainly of vegetable matter. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z The water is amber-coloured on account of the vegetable matter in solution, but is clear and without sediment in suspension, and is considered as remarkably wholesome. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z They feed on earth and various kinds of animal and vegetable matter, and move by the contractions of successive parts of the body aided by a double row of bristles. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z It feeds on vegetable matter, fruits, and roots. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Iron is usually dissolved out and redeposited by acids produced in the decay of vegetable matter, as we see in the clay ironstones of the coal formation and in bog-iron ores. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z The various decomposing volcanic rocks—tufas, conglomerates and basalts—mingled with decayed vegetable matter, and abundantly watered, form a very fertile soil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The essential conditions for the accumulation of vegetable matter have been present on the earth ever since a land flora existed, and coal-beds occur at many different horizons. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Rats and mice are practically omnivorous, feeding upon all kinds of animal and vegetable matter. House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 2011-03-12T03:00:26.220Z The natural habitat of the fungi would appear to be decaying vegetable matter in the field. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z Of four islets, two are rocks; Bood Ali, on the contrary, three hundred feet in height, and perfectly inaccessible, being thickly encrusted with earth and vegetable matter, whilst the sides of its nearest neighbour. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The dyes of the natives obtained from vegetable matter and other unknown primitive processes, have always won the admiration of the appreciative world. Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) 2011-02-23T03:00:31.787Z This increase in depth of the vegetable matter is much the same as the growth of peat in temperate latitudes, except that the partially decayed material is preserved in cold storage. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Coal is composed of vegetable matter, but usually contains a greater or less percentage of impurities. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z As this decaying vegetable matter mingles with the salt water of the sea, it forms a poisonous gas, sulphureted hydrogen, most fatal to health. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Dead vegetable matter made the humus; into that the roots of the living tree were struck, and because there had been vegetation in the past, there was vegetation in the future. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z The exhibitor at once told me, in reply to my questions, that this was not an American product at all, but that it was a "vegetable matter" found in Canada. Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada 2011-02-01T03:00:13.163Z By this attractive marge sit the ladies in their wide hats and dresses of filmy lace, watching the more adventurous sex pick his way out of the vegetable matter. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Dead animal or vegetable matter simply dries up and wastes away. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It must contain plenty of humus or vegetable matter to prevent packing. How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory 2010-12-24T03:00:31.740Z Much of the ground and marsh in the great estuary of the Holland river is said to be simply an accumulation of earthy and vegetable matter, resting on water. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z But alternatives to forage fish are being developed, including feed pellets made from algae and other vegetable matter. Taming the Wild Tuna 2010-09-05T06:48:00Z It slowly evaporates, leaving a thin crust of animal and vegetable matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Whether collected in the stomach, or small or large intestines, all kinds of vegetable matter are liable to ferment. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Plenty of vegetable matter also increases the water-holding capacity of the soil, thus reducing the loss due to the droughts that may occur in summer. How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory 2010-12-24T03:00:31.740Z It is certain that the chief work of insects, taken as a whole, is to remove from the earth the excess of animal and vegetable matter. Butterflies and Moths (British) Many animal substances, such as bones, clippings and shavings of horn, hoof, &c., and certain vegetable matters yield ammonia when heated. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli No vegetable matter is permitted to decompose, nor are objectionable substances allowed to remain aboveground. The Story of Malta It is well known that the food of earthworms consists largely of partially decayed vegetable matter found in the soil. Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 A peat bog is composed of a mass of vegetable matter, chiefly bog moss, which for centuries has been growing and accumulating on the spot. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight Caterpillars are living eating machines, whose office is to remove excess of vegetable matter. Butterflies and Moths (British) There are phanerogamous plants, like Monotropa or Indian Pipe, the roots of which feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter in the soil. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools They live upon vegetable matter, and a large proportion use their fore-paws in the manner of hands. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom When brought up from a great depth, its taste is purely saline; but when taken from the surface it is disagreeably bitter, owing, perhaps, to the animal and vegetable matters suspended in it. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France Not only are leaves and branches of vegetable matter found, but fossils of reptiles, such as live on the land. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. Large tracts of quartzose sand spread along the whole line of sea-coast, some of which, of a pure white, and very deficient in vegetable matter, is admirably adapted to the growth of the cinnamon plant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" In a slimy mass which holds all loosely together, little spheres of green vegetable matter are seen, assembled in fours, and these fours themselves in clusters of fours. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The rain in its passage through the air takes up carbonic acid, and it is still further charged with it in percolating through the surface soil in which there is decomposing vegetable matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" These, when they subside, may often produce considerable beds of vegetable matter. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology This indicates that the great bulk of vegetable matter of which the coal formation is made up has been subjected to tremendous pressure during a long period of time. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. Such land, well-timbered, contains in its elements the decomposed particles of the rocks above, blended with the decayed vegetable matter of forests that have for centuries scattered beneath them the germs of fertility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Assimilation in plants is the conversion of these inorganic substances—essentially, water, carbonic acid, and some form of combined or combinable nitrogen—into vegetable matter. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools As many of the giants of the forest lie upon the ground, in decay, as are standing, and the ground is covered by decomposed vegetable matter to a depth of three or four feet. Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 In the course of the Mackenzie River we have an example of vast accumulations of vegetable matter now in progress under both these circumstances. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology But these conditions of climate, and the distribution of land and water favourable to the accumulation of large deposits of vegetable matter, gradually gave way to a new order of things. Coal and What We Get from It It is true that the roots penetrate several feet into the soil, still an application of short manure or rotted vegetable matter applied each autumn will give a good return. The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing Chlorophyll is essential to ordinary assimilation in plants: by its means, under the influence of sunlight, the plant converts crude sap into vegetable matter. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Humus, which, it has been pointed out, is decaying vegetable matter, serves as a sponge for the absorption of soil water and for underground water supplies. A Living from the Land Substances which prevent corruption in animal and vegetable matter, as common salt does, are said to be antiseptic. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It is a large order, containing nearly 5,000 species, mostly parasitic on dead animals and vegetable matter. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Almost any kind of vegetable matter containing a fair amount of nutrition would be equally as suitable as mangold, indeed more so during the period from October to April. The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing Far the largest part of all vegetable matter produced is that which goes to build up the plant's fabric or cellular structure, either directly or indirectly. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The Value of Humus.—In addition to the chemical elements of plant food, all productive soils contain decaying vegetable matter, generally classified under the term “humus.” A Living from the Land To select another example, we find in certain localities subterranean deposits of coal, consisting of vegetable matter, formerly drifted into seas and lakes. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Azaleas, when planted out, require a certain amount of peat or other vegetable matter in the soil, and this is even more important when they are grown in pots. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens But the megapodes deposit their eggs in mounds of decaying vegetable matter or in sand in the neighbourhood of hot springs, and there without further apparent care leave them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" One which contains decomposing vegetable matter, or some decomposing animal matter; that is, in either case, some decomposing organic matter formerly produced by plants. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools To overcome this tendency, it is necessary to add vegetable matter to the soil whenever it is possible. A Living from the Land Multitudes of venomous Amphibia are hatched in the half-putrescent vegetable matter; and he who inadvertently steps on one of these animals may consider himself uncommonly fortunate if he can effect his retreat without being wounded. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The fury of the wind increased; it raised in the air enormous columns of dust, sand, and decayed vegetable matter, which it then dashed right and left, here, there, and everywhere. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The smell was like that of putrid vegetable matter. Black Diamonds The pond level varies with the rainfall of the years, but it averages a certain depth, from which something is each year subtracted by the accumulations of rotting vegetable matter in the bottom. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place It was very difficult to burn, and when dumped into rivers and creeks was carried out by flood water to fill the edges of the flats with a decaying and offensive mass of vegetable matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" Maybe they live on decaying vegetable matter until something live and bloody comes along. To Choke an Ocean The water was thick and filthy with rank, decaying vegetable matter, and there was an added source of danger in the venomous creatures that might be lurking there. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 Ordinary writing ink is easily decomposed because its principal constituent is a vegetable matter, oakgall, mixed with a little iron oxide. Book Repair and Restoration All sticks and vegetable matter are to be removed. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) The water, like all the other constituents of concrete, should be clean and free from vegetable matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" These waterways overflow their banks in the rainy season, depositing an accumulation of vegetable matter which remains to decompose when the river subsides, thus infecting the surrounding country. The Pearl of India He took infusions of vegetable matter, boiled them to a pitch sufficient to destroy all germs of life, and hermetically sealed up the liquid in glass flasks. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Where such vegetable matter is procurable, the quantity of nitrogen may be decreased proportionately. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history All sticks, leaves, roots, and other vegetable matter to be eliminated. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) There was a tiny wisp of vegetable matter he recognized as a dead bit of Riccia, and a few black threads of algae. The Blue Ghost Mystery So compact are these collections of vegetable matter that they seem like a field of marshy land, rather than like a floating substance. The Pearl of India They grow luxuriantly in a soil composed entirely of decayed vegetable matter; but in that they are liable to rot off at the base of the stem. In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house Two crops of cow-peas allowed to die on the land and turned under will give a store of vegetable matter that would be hard to get in any other manner. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history They found that the caisson workers had tapped a vein of sulphuretted hydrogen, probably due to the decay of some deep beds of vegetable matter, such as sea-weed. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers The ground before planting must be well lifted and exposed to the air; some portions should be burnt and mixed with the rest; decayed vegetable matter should be added in abundance. The Book of Pears and Plums Minnows, perch, bream and mullet alike are busy assimilating vegetable matter, mussels, worms, insects and small crustacae, merely to form themselves either directly or in their children ultimately into titbits for the nourishing of pickerel. Old Plymouth Trails It is a strong agent in the decomposition of vegetable matter, and is thus of much importance in preparing manures. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools The Myxomycetes are,— A. Parasites, in the cells of living plants Phytomyxin� B. Saprophytes, developed in connection with decaying vegetable matter: a. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species A large pan of water, with sand and stones at the bottom, decayed vegetable matter for food, and a few living water-plants, extracted from their native place, will keep a dozen newts in comfort. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. The arable loam, a few inches in thickness, is the result of the detriti of the stones, mixed with the remainder of the decomposition of vegetable matter. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa Even moisture and decaying vegetable matter could not, with all nature’s alchemy, concoct enough soil to nourish a few poor grasses. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Wood, leaves, or other vegetable matter kept continually under water, will last for ages; while, if exposed to the action of the weather, as in under-drained soils, they soon decay. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools The water is dirty, and owing to the quantity of rotten vegetable matter which it brings from the forest, and which at this season is little diluted, it is reckoned very unwholesome. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha A still larger number of fungi are developed from decayed or decaying vegetable matter. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Lime-water is employed to neutralize any free acid as well as to separate the vegetable matter. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Upon this had gradually gathered sand, seeds and vegetable matter, in the usual way, until beneath the tropical sun and the balmy climate the “desert blossomed like the rose.” Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils It hastens the decay of vegetable matter, and the finer comminution of the earthy parts of the soil. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools Contrary to general belief, the grape seldom thrives in very sandy soils unless there is a fair admixture of clay, considerable decomposing vegetable matter and a clay subsoil. Manual of American Grape-Growing On the other hand, the influence of fungi must not be lost sight of as the scavengers of nature when dealing with dead and decaying vegetable matter. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Occasionally we find water which is bad to drink on account of passage through the ground or on account of passage through lead pipes, but the danger is never from ordinary decomposing vegetable matter. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 All soil is made up of varying proportions of mineral and vegetable matter in the interstices of which there are usually to be found more or less air, water, and watery vapor. Rural Hygiene Organic manures comprise all animal and vegetable matters which are used to fertilize the soil, such as dung, muck, etc. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools The humus that will be left in the soil as the vegetable matter decays increases the porosity of the road surface making it more absorbent than soil without humus. American Rural Highways They are always on the look-out for decaying animal or vegetable matter, which, if not in too large quantities, they speedily devour. Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The land shells, or snails, have generally thin shells of spiral form and live upon vegetable matter, many of them laying small eggs which look like minute pearls. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Sand is equally desirable except in the cases where vegetable matter has been mixed with the sand, rendering decay imminent. Rural Hygiene If vegetable matter be destroyed, what becomes of these constituents? The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools This vegetative part of the fungus is usually hidden in the soil, or in decayed wood, or vegetable matter. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth The quantity of lime or marl to use at one application depends very much on the nature of the soil and the amount of vegetable matter it contains. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses They breed in filth, human waste, animal droppings, decayed animal or vegetable matter, and are so made that they carry filth wherever they go. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The vegetable matter in soil is usually produced by the decay of plants which have either grown on the soil or have been washed down into its voids. Rural Hygiene Nitrogen, the only remaining organic constituent of vegetable matter, is for many reasons worthy of close attention. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools It is found in rich ground and decomposing vegetable matter. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Land will bear large quantities of marl with perfect safety, if kept well stocked with some vegetable matter to subdue its caustic effects. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses The soil in the pecan orchard needs humus, vegetable matter; so does the soil in any other kind of orchard, and to obtain results it must be provided. The Pecan and its Culture The former prefers a vegetable diet—the latter likes better fish, flesh, and insects—though he will also fill his stomach with a farrago of vegetable matters. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Potash is a very active agent in decomposing vegetable matter, and may be used with great advantage, especially where an analysis of the soil which is to be manured shows a deficiency of potash. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools The birds scratch up heaps of soil and vegetable matter, in which they bury their eggs and leave them to be hatched by the heat of decomposition. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Upland waters contain generally vegetable matter, while surface water from cultivated lands becomes polluted by animal manure. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Turf, dead leaves, more or less pickled by decay, dry twigs cased in lichens, broken stones with cushions of moss and, lastly, mould, the final residue of vegetable matters wrought upon by time. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles A soil which produces cabbages with large and rather soft heads is likely to be good for cauliflowers; that is, it contains more vegetable matter than the right amount for producing hard heads of cabbage. The Cauliflower What takes place when vegetable matter is burned? The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools They are mainly accumulations of vegetable matter in place. The Economic Aspect of Geology Especially is this true when the general health is good, and the diet plain, and contains a full proportion of vegetable matter. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Elsewhere three types of soil are distinguished—a black soil, of decayed vegetable matter, where the land is under forest, a reddish clay, and a white soil occurring along the shores. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Lake Xochimilco contains powerful springs, but away from them the water appears dark and muddy, full of suspended fresh and decomposing vegetable matter, teeming with fish, larvae of insects, Daphniae, worms and axolotl. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Whenever vegetable matter is destroyed by burning, decay, or otherwise, its hydrogen and oxygen unite and form water, which is parted with usually in the form of an invisible vapor. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools Bacterial action is an important factor in the earlier stages, in the partial decay of vegetable matter to form peat; accumulation of waste products from this action, however, appears to inhibit further bacterial activity. The Economic Aspect of Geology He commenced another hole about six feet from the first, driving through fallen trees and vegetable matter that had lain there for tens of centuries. Colorado Jim Most of the small lakes on the American bottom disappear in the summer, and leave a deposit of vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, or a luxuriant coat of weeds and grass. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West This triangular cultivator was used for stirring the soil and removing foreign vegetable matter. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 It assists in the decomposition of vegetable matter in the soil. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools The so-called pitch consists of a mixture of bitumen, water, mineral and vegetable matter, the whole inflated with gas, which escapes to some extent and keeps the mass in a state of constant ebullition. The Economic Aspect of Geology One of the most striking of the arguments he brought forward was the fact that the humus of the soil itself consisted of the decayed vegetable matter of preceding plants. Manures and the principles of manuring In all our rich lands, there are vast quantities of vegetable matter mixed with the soil, or spread over the surface. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Carried still farther, putrid, unhealthy exhalations are the result, such as we find rising from swamps and other places where vegetable matter is decaying. Select Temperance Tracts This portion rarely constitutes more than five or ten per cent. of the entire soil, sometimes less—and it has no reference to the sand, clay, and vegetable matters which they contain. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools On returning after dark we passed a billabong, from which a very strong stench, as if from decomposed vegetable matter, arose. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 In the surface-soil it thus approaches more nearly in composition ordinary vegetable matter. Manures and the principles of manuring Much of that region is heavily timbered, and, upon cutting it away in spots, and letting in the rays of the sun upon vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, miasmata are generated. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West His report of the analysis shows it to be composed entirely of chloride of sodium or common salt, with a small quantity of some unknown vegetable matter which gives it a yellow color. Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales How is vegetable matter rendered useful as charcoal? The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools This vegetable matter, when it is completely decayed, we call humus. Conservation Reader A good example of the amount of heat that accompanies fermentation, or decay of vegetable matter, is seen in the case of rotting farmyard manure. Manures and the principles of manuring These lakes are usually full of vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, and which produces large quantities of miasm. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West But although quite shallow the water was opaque for the most part being discolored by vegetable matter stirred up by the monster, and the transparent portions were too deep for them to see bottom. Omega, the Man Its principal constituent is carbon, in different degrees of development, which has remained after the decomposition of vegetable matter. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools Soils found in low, swampy places are sometimes formed almost wholly of decaying vegetable matter. Conservation Reader It may be asked, How is the decay, or fermentation, of vegetable matter, such as farmyard manure, caused? or rather, To what is it due? Manures and the principles of manuring Indeed, there is probably very little difference in the miasm thrown off from decomposed vegetable matter, and that produced from sluggish streams, standing waters and marshes. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West On analysis these powders were found to contain an impure form of sodium bicarbonate, together with a little aromatic vegetable matter. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say When employed in paring potatoes or apples, or in cutting cabbages, they throw the skins and waste leaves on the ground, so that they are frequently surrounded by a mass of half-decayed vegetable matter. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Some of my readers may not know that the bog is not the primitive soil, but masses of partly decomposed vegetable matter, which have accumulated during many, many ages. Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children We have just seen that one cause of the heat of soils is the oxidation which is constantly going on in all soils, but more rapidly in soils containing a large quantity of vegetable matter. Manures and the principles of manuring These, in the great Valley, abound with decayed vegetable matter. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Soils through which water easily permeates are likewise, as a rule, healthy, though this depends in a measure upon whether or not they contain a very considerable proportion of vegetable matter. Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene No; they subsist exclusively on fruits, seeds, and other vegetable matter. Minnie's Pet Monkey A good mulch of decomposed vegetable matter round the plants is an advantage, but they are usually so easily grown that little extra care is given to them. Fruits of Queensland Whenever vegetable matter decays, there is always a certain amount of heat generated. Manures and the principles of manuring The bricks made with a very high percentage of soil often have the appearance of dried soil, with a slight admixture of vegetable matter. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. Some vegetable soil was found, a few inches in thickness, the result of the decomposition of vegetable matter and birds' dung. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. By exposure to the air it appears gradually to acquire the properties of the humus of the soil, or of stable manure, which are vegetable matters, altered by the same exposure. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel In all these cases vegetable matter is mixed with the soil. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Soils, therefore, in which there is a large amount of decaying vegetable matter, are certain to receive more heat from this source than soils of more purely mineral nature. Manures and the principles of manuring They love, too, a shadowed pool which is tainted a little, but not too much, by decaying vegetable matter. A Poor Man's House The food seems to have been young shoots of a species of pine tree, with vegetable matter. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria Peat, no doubt, is a correct name for the substance which results from the decomposition of vegetable matters under or saturated with water, whatever its appearance or properties. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Try to find the proportion of vegetable matter in each of the following: loams from various sources, sand, clay, gravel. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study While this is so, they show a preference for soils rich in decayed vegetable matter. Manures and the principles of manuring An almost incalculably numerous order of plants growing on dead vegetable matter, and often produced on a ship's lining by long-continued damp. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The potato is most profitably grown in a warm, dry, sandy, or gravelly loam, well filled with decayed vegetable matters. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. These bodies cannot be obtained in the pure state from peat, since they are mixed with more or less partially decomposed vegetable matters from which they cannot be separated without suffering chemical change. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Both of these animals are quite harmless and feed on decaying vegetable matter. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The sources of the nitrogen of the ocean are the nitrates which it receives from the drainage of land, animal and vegetable matter, sewage, &c. Manures and the principles of manuring In each case the amount of force developed is, within certain limits, proportionate to the quantity of vegetable or altered vegetable matter consumed. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Metals are less heated than earthy or stony bodies, or than animal or vegetable matters. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Others again are light and porous, and remain so on drying; these contain intermixed vegetable matter that is but little advanced in the peaty decomposition. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Plants.—Our study of humus shows the value of vegetable matter in soil. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Similarly, it may be evolved in the case of vegetable matter decaying under water. Manures and the principles of manuring The substances described in this section constitute, however, at least 95 per cent. of the weight of the vegetable matters used as food by live stock. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Through myriad years the decaying vegetable matter of this rank swamp had been accumulating in these layers of muck. Blackbeard: Buccaneer After complete extraction with hydrate of soda, there remains more or less undecomposed vegetable matter, together with sand and soil, were these contained in the peat. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Humus is likely to be present in all fields, because vegetable matter grows, to some extent, everywhere; but freshly broken land, reclaimed swamps, and prairie lands are likely to be especially well supplied. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Nature tries constantly to cure the ills of her soil through the addition of vegetable matter. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement It is produced abundantly when vegetable matters are burnt, as also during respiration, fermentation, and many other processes. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Coal consists of accumulations of vegetable matter that were formed in prior geological ages. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges We have seen that ripe peat is 10 to 12 per cent. richer in carbon and equally poorer in oxygen, than the vegetable matters from which it originates. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel The soil is formed completely of vegetable matter, without any admixture of earthy particles. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America A cause of acid conditions that is widely known and accepted, and that may therefore stand out in our thinking with undue prominence, is connected with the decay of green vegetable matter in the soil. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Under the action of heat and moisture, and also the tremendous pressure of the rock layers that afterward covered them, the vegetable matter was converted to mineral coal. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges How much nitre could be manufactured from the refuse animal and vegetable matter of the City of Philadelphia in case of emergency? James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 Within the fortress exist a vast number of chambers, with galleries connecting them, composed sometimes of particles of earth, and at others of vegetable matter, cemented by the saliva of the insects. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The caustic lime in a soil hastens decay of vegetable matter in a degree impossible to the limestone or marl. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement This carbonic acid, which is obviously produced by the decomposition of the vegetable matters and manure, acting partly as gas and partly dissolved in the soil water, exerts a solvent action on its constituents. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry To dissipate this doubt, Schulze in 1836 half filled a flask with distilled water to which animal and vegetable matters were added. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Poduras feed ordinarily on vegetable matter, such as dead leaves and growing cryptogamic vegetation. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses Their business in the economy of nature is chiefly the consumption of decayed vegetable matter, which would otherwise contaminate the atmosphere. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The purpose of tillage is in no small degree to bring about disintegration and resulting exhaustion of vegetable matter. Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement In either case, the same quantity of vegetable matter will be produced, but the time within which it is obtained will be regulated by the supply of ammonia. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Mr. Shelley, too, is perhaps somewhat embarrassing to classify; as, though spirits are what he affected most, he made use of a large amount of vegetable matter also. Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book Baron Osten Sacken informs me that it is a Drosophila, "the species of which live in putrescent vegetable matter, especially fruits." Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The result of this process is that all the vegetable matter contained in the wool is “carbonized” or burned to a crisp, and on being slightly beaten or shaken readily turns to dust. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Perhaps no country in the world contains such an amount of vegetable matter on its surface as the valley of the Amazon. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure They don’t take any trouble to hatch their eggs, but leave that for the heat of the dry and decaying vegetable matter. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent The soil consisted of decomposed shell and vegetable matter, very soft and porous, underneath which were loose coral slabs, and I soon had a space cleared large enough for us both to lie down upon. Yorke The Adventurer A portion of the time within the rotation belongs to a crop that increases the supply of vegetable matter, unless manure is brought from an outside source. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement It is generally sound, but likely to contain vegetable matter. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades There was the typical, low-order vegetable matter, about what we always find. General Max Shorter Iron exists in all animal and vegetable matter, and in all soils, to some extent. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles I may mention also that having now opened the stomachs of several freshly killed gorillas, I have never found anything but vegetable matter in them. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Plants which are expected in another season to fill the ground with vegetable matter are starved in the beginning and die. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement It is generally burry and contains much vegetable matter. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Decaying vegetable matter seems most favorable for nourishing and preserving the virus. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Animal and vegetable matter do not decay, or decompose, so as to furnish food for plants, unless freely supplied with oxygen, which they must obtain from air. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Water taken from stagnant pools, charged with putrid vegetable matter and animalculæ, would be very likely to generate fevers and dysenteries if taken into the stomach without purification. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions The vegetable matter was used up, some of the more available mineral plant-food was changed into soluble forms, and in the course of years partial soil exhaustion resulted. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Hog wool is generally more full of dirt, moss, straw, and other vegetable matter. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Evidently this forest grew in one of those marshy lands constantly inundated, for between the stumps is accumulated the loose, felt-like peat characteristic of such grounds, and containing about as much mud as vegetable matter. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 They have large appetites and eat both animal and vegetable matter—birds, small animals and tender vegetation. Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot No physiologist doubts that a stomach adapted to digest vegetable matter alone, or flesh alone, draws most nutriment from these substances. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) As land becomes older, losing natural means of drainage and the excellent physical condition due to vegetable matter in it, the need of drainage grows greater. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement This always required a flint, a steel, and a tinder of some vegetable matter to catch the spark struck by the concussion of flint and steel. Home Life in Colonial Days There was no furniture; the floor was of mud, and so were the walls, while the roof was thatched with some dried vegetable matter. At the Point of the Sword Lime breaks down vegetable matter and makes its constituent plant foods quickly available, but prevents a build-up of humus in the soil. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 Mainly because of its location, there being a natural drainage, and the water was much better, containing very little animal and vegetable matter. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 On the other hand, these estimates do not embrace the great benefit to the physical condition of the soil that results from the incorporation of a large amount of vegetable matter. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement It was examined under a microscope, by Dr. Machattie, who found it to consist mainly of vegetable matter "far advanced in decomposition." The Book of the Damned They destroy every scrap of organic matter they can reach, and will even eat their way through brick to reach wood or any other vegetable matter. Impressions of South Africa There is no objection to adding artificial fertilizer, or a still greater amount of vegetable matter. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 It thus came warm, and sometimes offensive by reason of vegetable matter contained in it. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Successful farming involves such assistance of nature that the percentage of vegetable matter in the soil shall be made high and kept high. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Second act: It was said that, according to M. Ehrenberg, "the meteor-paper was found to consist partly of vegetable matter, chiefly of conifervæ." The Book of the Damned The water of the few sluggish streams, although transparent, was highly colored by the decaying vegetable matter and the roots of the juniper. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson It must not have other soil mixed with it, or any vegetable matter. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside We find the rabbit occupies a considerable amount of its time in taking in vegetable matter, consisting chiefly of more or less complex combustible and unstable organic compounds. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata The country around is a complete swamp, but the extreme shortness of the warm weather, and the consequent length of winter, fortunately prevent the rapid decomposition of vegetable matter. Hudson Bay Like the others of the same family, it feeds upon vegetable matter, generally on marine plants, with their adherent molluscan life. The Ocean and its Wonders Wood-ashes are useful in supplying potash and other inorganic substances required by the plant; and they may be advantageously applied where the soil contains a large amount of decayed vegetable matter. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Your bottom lands do not differ materially from the upland, except that the former have received considerable vegetable matter, which the latter have lost. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Some but only a small proportion, of the vegetable matter it eats, leaves its body comparatively unchanged, in little pellets, the faeces, in the process of defaecation. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata Each grain of sand, each particle of decayed vegetable matter, etc., is, to these microscopic animalcules, a gigantic boulder, a mighty muck heap. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals It is a vast quagmire, composed of vegetable matter and the decayed roots of trees and plants. Hurricane Hurry Oxalis requires a light, rich soil, mixed with decayed vegetable matter; and it prefers a southern aspect, provided the soil is not too dry. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Their chief use in the economy of Nature seems to be the consumption of decayed vegetable matter, as they are exclusively vegetarians. On the Banks of the Amazon The larvæ of these beetles inhabit and feed upon decaying trees and other rotting vegetable matter, and correspond in size with the mature insects. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Is there any evidence of vegetable matter in the soil? Lessons on Soil "Free ammonia" is that formed as a result of the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter containing nitrogen. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Coals of various kinds were probably formed from vast accumulations of vegetable matter in former ages, which became covered over with earthy material and were thus protected from rapid decay. An Elementary Study of Chemistry When the vegetable matter is ignited, and a current of air is made to pass through the burning mass, a small or great degree of heat can be produced at pleasure. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 He can do this by deep plowing, by subsoiling, by adding any kind of decaying vegetable matter to the soil, and by growing crops that can be tilled frequently. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition In windy weather and in dangerous places camp-fires should be confined in trenches, or an open spot be chosen and the ground first cleared of all vegetable matter. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies Soil.—The soil about dwellings and places where foods are stored frequently becomes polluted with decaying animal and vegetable matter, and in such soils disease-producing organisms readily find lodgment. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Peat is said by geologists to be only "coal in the making," carbon that is in the state of changing from vegetable matter to coal. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation It cannot leave the water; but it can live comfortably in pools which are foul with decomposing animal and vegetable matter. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told But we must add humus, or vegetable matter, to the soil. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition These are met with on decaying logs in damp woods, on rotting leaves, and other decaying vegetable matter. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Poorly drained soils containing an excess of vegetable matter furnish a medium in which the tapeworm and the germs of typhoid fever, lockjaw, and various diseases affecting the digestive tract, may propagate. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value The soil is the natural disintegrated rock, rich in the mineral elements, but lacking in decayed vegetable matter. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Those streams, freighted with the rich loam and vegetable matter of the prairies of the east and west, soon change entirely the appearance of the Mississippi. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy This crop, in addition to keeping the land from being injuriously washed, would greatly help the coming cotton crop by leaving the soil full of vegetable matter. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition The larger Basidiomycetes are for the most part saprophytes, living in decaying vegetable matter, but a few are true parasites upon trees and others of the flowering plants. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses This is why soil can be made richer by scattering over it and plowing into it manure, waste from slaughter houses, or any other kind of decaying animal or vegetable matter. A Handbook of Health Here it thrives on the humus and decayed vegetable matter and sends long, winding tendrils down to the ground. Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box The most effective means I have ever used to disinfect decaying vegetable matter is chloride of lime in solution. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference A soil rich in either decaying animal or vegetable matter, loose, warm, and moist but not wet, will produce a better crop of corn than any other. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition It always acts more powerfully on clean land; indeed if there is much crude vegetable matter in the soil, there is frequently little or no advantage derived from its application. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers It was a mixture of fish and vegetable matter, but not an atom of meat. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean The roots of clovers are usually so numerous that they literally fill the soil with vegetable matter. Clovers and How to Grow Them He found, too, that his first shrewd guess was correct—their bodies were of vegetable matter, rather than proto-plasmic. Man of Many Minds Whenever a large amount of vegetable matter decays in land, acids are formed, and at times sourness of the soil results. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition The surface soil is of a lighter or more open character, in consequence of the cultivation which it has received, or of the decayed vegetable matter and the roots which it contains. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health In country districts raw Carrots are sometimes given to children for expelling worms, probably because the vegetable matter passes mechanically through the body unchanged, and scours it. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The better that these are supplied with vegetable matter, and the more moist the season, the better is the stand of the clover likely to be. Clovers and How to Grow Them No spot on the globe contains so much vegetable matter as the Valley of the Amazon. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Membrane: a thin layer or fold of animal or vegetable matter. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Four launches sent out in different directions to the south and east reported no sign of land, but immense quantities of floating vegetable matter, yellow dust, and the bodies of jackals, camels, zebras, and lions. The Man Who Rocked the Earth Good and pure water softens the fibres of animal and vegetable matters more readily than such as is called hard. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Its powerful bill enabled it to break, and its capacious, stone-supplied gizzard to digest, the hardest shells and kernels; and thus a kind of frugivorous vulture, it cleared away the decaying vegetable matter. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 When seen in a tumbler, the water of the Negro is clear, but of a light-red color; due, undoubtedly, to vegetable matter. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Humus: the portion of the soil caused by the decay of animal or vegetable matter. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition It is made up of roof dust, sand, and silt washed from the interior, outside dust and vegetable matter blown in by the wind, with minute amounts of clay or soil carried in by animals. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 We want cheerful-looking plants for the bare parts under trees, and this is a suitable one, provided the surface soil has a good proportion of vegetable matter amongst it, and is rather moist. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. For the space, packed with dead and dying vegetable matter until one sank calf deep, was a triangle with a narrow point running east into the swamp. Voodoo Planet It is also formed by the decay of animal and vegetable matter. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools The dirty neglected portions of our city where refuse and rubbish, animal and vegetable matters are deposited and allowed to rest and send up their poisonous odors from house to house, must be looked after. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro And, what is more injurious, the humus—i. e., the decomposed vegetable matter in the top soil—is destroyed. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods As the alluvial deposit is laid down, a good deal of vegetable matter was built into it. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Casts of huge boles of trees are found among our fossils, inducing the belief that in some bygone age quantities of vegetable matter, absolutely enormous, were produced on the earth's surface. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Conditions Favorable and Unfavorable for Germs.—Conditions favorable for germ life are supplied by animal and vegetable matter, moisture, and a moderate degree of warmth. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Here, seven and a quarter miles from the mouth, the stream measures about twenty yards broad, the thalweg is deep and navigable, and the water, bitumen-coloured with vegetable matter, tastes brackish. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Food substance varied, usually vegetable matter, see, however, below. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 Gradually the accumulations of vegetable matter and the silt brought in by floods efface this moat or oxbow cut-off, as it is so commonly termed. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Those three are potash, which is abundant and will be abundant 100 years from now, phosphoric acid, or phosphorus, with which our soils are fairly well supplied, and nitrogen, which comes from the vegetable matter. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 A foot or more of a mass of decayed leaves and other vegetable matter encases the mound. The Mound Builders The soil is so rich in decayed vegetable matter as to be almost black, and now grows excellent crops of tobacco and Indian corn. Round About the Carpathians And, whilst water, uniting its effects with those of carbonic acid, tends to disintegrate the parts of stones, the oxygen acts upon vegetable matter. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher Moreover, they are somewhat coloured with decayed vegetable matter. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography They will act like so much rye, but when they die and decay nitrogen will be gathered from the air and added to the soil by bacteria that live upon the decaying vegetable matter. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The decomposition of animal or vegetable matters effected largely by the agency of nucro-production of various solid, liquid and gaseous matters. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada This may be owing to bad water, of which there is no scarcity, but it is so impregnated with dead vegetable matter as to have the colour of tea. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi A superabundance of nitrates seem also to impair or destroy fertility in the soil, and they may arise from the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter, in a soil containing a superabundance of porous lime. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II In the body of such a wood we find next the surface a coating of decayed vegetable matter, made up of the falling leaves, bark, branches, and trunks which are constantly descending to the earth. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography These contents are an enormous quantity of thick brown liquid, in the midst of which swim numerous islands of vegetable matter and a few pieces of meat. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business Experiment.—Place in separate pans, dishes, plates, boxes, or on boards, one or two pints each of sand, clay, decayed vegetable matter or leaf mould or woods soil, and garden soil. The First Book of Farming It is on all hands agreed, that the climate of the isthmus would be greatly improved by drainage, and clearing the country of the immense quantities of vegetable matter left rotting on the ground. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Ages ago trees and bushes grew "thick and fast," and the ground was always covered with a deep layer of decaying vegetable matter. General Science On this marine plant life, and in a small measure on the vegetable matter derived from the land, the marine animals primarily depend for their provender. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography But one day, some of this old, buried vegetable matter was found and brought to the surface of the earth. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks Peat is also largely vegetable matter, consisting of tough roots, partially decayed leaves, moss, etc. The First Book of Farming What is wanted is a light compost, consisting almost wholly of vegetable matter in a more or less advanced state of decomposition. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Wood and coal, and in fact all animal and vegetable matter, contain carbon, and when these substances burn or decay, the carbon in them unites with oxygen and forms carbon dioxide. General Science In fact, in any deep-sea form we might find it necessary to trace back the food by thousands of steps before we found the creature which had access to the vegetable matter. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography If too much vegetable matter is present, the soil becomes “sour.” Studies of Trees Humus, partially decayed animal and vegetable matter in the soil. The First Book of Farming These are supplied almost entirely from the atmosphere itself, though, to a limited extent, the presence in the soil of humus or vegetable matter contributes also. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition When the mingled animal and vegetable matter sank into moist earth and came under the influence of pressure, it was slowly changed into oil and gas. General Science Where the pebbly glacial waste is provided with a mixture of vegetable matter, the process of decay commonly goes forward with considerable rapidity. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography The more vegetable matter in the humus, the darker the soil; and therefore a good soil such as one finds on the upper surface of a well-tilled farm has quite a dark color. Studies of Trees Besides, the conversion of vegetable matter into coal seems to be going on even now. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects The beds must be freely enriched with well-rotted manure and decayed vegetable matter; it can scarcely be overdone, for Begonias are gross feeders. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition It is the presence of animal and vegetable matter that causes real danger, and it is known that typhoid fever is due largely to such impurities present in the drinking water. General Science It is otherwise with the mass of the soil, that body of commingled decayed rock and vegetable matter which must possess a certain thickness in order to serve its needs. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Behind this grille was an exhaust, which sucked away the dust and countless atoms of vegetable matter scattered by Levi's activities, and the running band from above worked it. The Spinners But how could this vegetable matter ever accumulate in such masses as to make beds of coal of such vast extent, some not less than 30 feet thick? Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects They all thrive in peat, or rotten turf, or, indeed, in any soil containing an abundance of decomposing vegetable matter. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. General Science It was with a shout, one day, that we welcomed a good wind, and shot clear of this dead sea of vegetable matter. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The voluminous bowel or colon of man is a legacy from remote pre-human ancestors, whose food consisted of bulky, fibrous and slowly digested vegetable matters. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition It would take 10 or 12 feet of green vegetable matter to make 1 foot of solid coal. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects The soils of the county are largely sedimentary, having been washed down from the mountains for ages, assisted by the decomposition of vegetable matter accumulated through centuries. A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 We have none in our lakes; the water is too pure and free from vegetable matter for fish. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays Its larvæ, which are also very formidable insects or grubs, about three inches long, with large reddish heads, are found in decaying vegetable matter. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Mr. E. also says that the material of which the tope of Manikyalah is built, resembles petrified vegetable matter, an observation to be kept in view. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Beneath us lies an accumulation of vegetable matter more than 200 feet in thickness—the result of the growth and decay of plants in this swamp for centuries. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects The vegetable matter remaining in the cans soon decays and attracts flies. Camping For Boys Mark had reached the bottom of the slope and discovered a dark sluggish stream full of decayed vegetable matter which was slowly oozing on its course. The Altar Steps From the decomposition of these rocks, mixed with a small quantity of vegetable matter, the soil is formed. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. If the plants of coal fields are found to be converted into coal, then the only difference between coal shale, and coal will consist in the very small proportion of vegetable matter in the former. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries This accumulated mass of vegetable matter must be buried, however, before we can have a coal-bed. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects No physiologist doubts that a stomach adapted to digest vegetable matter alone, or flesh alone, draws more nutriment from these substances. Darwinism (1889) The decayed vegetable matter accumulated by centuries ferments under the summer sun. The Roman Question It contains a small portion of vegetable matter or humus. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. When examined in this way, all coals are found to consist more or less entirely of vegetable matter; but there is considerable difference in different coals as to the exact nature of this. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science They are generally found in putrefying liquids, especially infusions of vegetable matter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 And it is in such sheltered spots that we find rot worse, and quite independently of the presence or absence of shade or of vegetable matter lying on the land. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore If it has vegetable matter or humus in it, then its value as a corn-growing soil is increased. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Tea in order to be profitable requires a good sound soil,—a light loam, well mixed with sand and vegetable matter, moderately moist, and yet not stagnant or sour. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. They present the extraordinary feature that the crowns became worn down flat by mastication, showing that the Iguanodon employed its teeth in actually chewing and triturating the vegetable matter on which it fed. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science Pieces of vegetable matter were found to be capable of stimulation, fatigue, excitement, depression, poison. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga This is sure to be hardened and deficient in vegetable matter, and this condition of things can only be remedied by applying large quantities of cattle manure or jungle top soil, or both. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore Humus soil is made up largely of decayed animal and vegetable matter. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Soil and culture.—The soil consists of a mixture of loam, sand, and vegetable matter, is of a yellow colour, and is most suitable for the cultivation of the tea-plant. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The general source of solid carbon in the crust of the earth is, however, plant-life; and it seems impossible to account for the Laurentian graphite, except upon the supposition that it is metamorphosed vegetable matter. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science These consist of comminuted vegetable matter, derived, it may be, from a thatched roof, if one happens to be within reach, or from the decaying leaves of a coco-nut. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon It consists, then, of the excreta of animals, and the vegetable matter used as litter. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore You see the part desired in leaf mould is vegetable matter. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Soil and culture.—The soil is what is usually called a sandy loam; it is moderately rich, being well mixed with vegetable matter. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Exactly one-half his food supply consists of vegetable matter, chiefly wild berries, acorns, beechnuts, and the seeds of wild shrubs and weeds. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The flats at the entrance of small streams into Lake Tahoe are covered with deep soil, owing to deposition of vegetable matter brought from the slopes adjacent to their channels. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Lime might be advantageously used more often where the land is liable to be soured, or where much vegetable matter has accumulated. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore This surface is full of vegetable matter in the form of young roots. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Lime is one of the greatest known solvents of vegetable matter; it dissolves albumen, gluten, gum and lignin, or woody fibre, forming soapy compounds with wax, resin, and, chlorophyle. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. But the formation of mineral coal requires vegetable matter to have been deposited along with those earthy substances, at the bottom of the sea. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) First of all, when a mass of vegetable matter commences to decay, it soon loses its colour. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes The decayed vegetable matter that was lodged in the cavities produced a thick covering of long, but rather spindly grass, very fit for thatch from its length. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 All through the summer add any old green vegetable matter to this. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. It is well to have an excess of plants and a number of snails, as the snails will devour all the decaying vegetable matter which would otherwise poison the water and kill the fish. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do It will be seen that each group of fibres is surrounded by vegetable matter. The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth Small streams of water, flowing underground, complete the disorganisation of the vegetable matter, and consolidate the whole. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Rough, muddy, or both, these streets serve admirably as permanent receptacles for much decomposing animal and vegetable matter. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient If this be only weeds and other vegetable matter it may be very easily burned on the garden spot. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. L. E. D.-Poppy heads, boiled in water, impart to the menstruum their narcotic juice, together with the other juices which they have in common with vegetable matters in general. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Fermentative Agents.—Fermentation in vegetable matter is always accompanied by the growth of living organisms. Science in the Kitchen. They therefore greatly resemble some coals, and really only differ therefrom in degree, in the quantity of vegetable matter which they contain. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes The soil is chiefly a mixture of sand and decomposed vegetable matter; but it cannot boast of fertility. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea So the soils we speak of as sandy soils have mixed with the sand other matter, sometimes clay, sometimes vegetable matter or humus, and often animal waste. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. This slakes the lime and hastens the decomposition of the vegetable matter. Gardening for the Million Doubtless the earth and the vegetable matter had merely been taken incidentally, adhering to the viscid tongue when it was thrust into the ant masses. Through the Brazilian Wilderness In connection with the formation of this substance, the remarks of Sir Charles Lyell, the great geologist, may well be quoted, as showing the transformation of vegetable matter into petroleum, and afterwards into solid-looking asphalt. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes They were submitted to a number of tests which induced Mr. Macie to believe that they consisted principally of silica, but that before calcination some vegetable matter must have been present. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Such a pile of rotting vegetable matter is called a compost pile. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Mark found Betts's deposit of decayed vegetable matter even larger and more accessible than he had hoped for. The Crater Small streams of water, flowing underground, complete the disorganization of the vegetable matter, and consolidate the whole. The Voyage of the Beagle Are we to believe that all this vegetable matter was brought down by some mighty river and deposited in its delta, or that the coal-plants grew just where we now find the coal? The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes The cellular tissue of the vegetable matter is filled, or even replaced, by various siliceous minerals like chalcedony, jasper, crystalline quartz and semi-opal, the silica having probably been introduced by thermal waters. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Which impregnation with manganese has probably been received from the decomposition of superincumbent vegetable matters. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation While a soil very rich in organic matter is not desirable, good results cannot be secured unless it contains a fair amount of vegetable matter. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) In the very hot weather a good deal of vegetable matter is mixed with the food. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others It is disengaged wherever vegetable matter has fallen and has become decayed. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes That coal is little else but mineralized vegetable matter is a point on which there has for a long time been but small doubt. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 It is not a miasm, in the common signification of the term; it does not carry with it any poison; it is not vegetable matter in decomposition, but it flourishes by preference amid the last. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Marsh gas and carbonic acid are seen escaping from the surface of pools where recent vegetable matter is submerged, and they are also eliminated in the further decomposition of peat, lignite, coal, and carbonaceous shale. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 I dimly comprehended the process, how the silica replaced the vegetable matter, atom by atom, and the result was a duplicate of the object in stone. The King in Yellow The materials carried in mechanical suspension are clay, sand, and vegetable matter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 The only question is: How were these great masses of vegetable matter brought together? Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Under favorable conditions, that is, with moisture, heat, and the presence of vegetable matter in decomposition, the filaments of mycelium increase in length. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 We have drained many marshes, ditches, and unclean pools, rich in decomposing vegetable matter, and have thus notably checked the propagation of gnats and midges. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 The atmosphere was heavy and filled with the odor of decaying vegetable matter never before disturbed. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Ignis Fatuus.—Arising from ignition of phosphorus from rotten leaves and decayed vegetable matters. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire There was a land surface on which plants grew fast and multiplied rapidly, and as they died fell and accumulated in a great heap of dead vegetable matter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Ferns grew among decaying vegetable matter in masses difficult to push through. Tropic Days This was a natural incubator, certainly, but superior to those in common use in that the solar heat stored by the stone during the day rendered superfluous any large accumulation of vegetable matter. My Tropic Isle Often in the jungle, when slightly preparing the ground for erecting the tent, phosphorescent lights from decayed vegetable matter shone in innumerable spots, as if a powerful lamp were throwing its light through a grating. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 The garden in which Mr. Cunningham had planted seeds was covered with three or four feet of additional soil, formed of sand and decayed vegetable matter, and clothed with a thicket of plants in flower. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 With regard to the circumstances under which the masses of vegetable matter were transformed into successive coal strata, geologists are divided. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Decaying vegetable matter is his food, and with those jaws he will bark a dead stick as neatly as you will with a penknife. Prose Idylls, New and Old In other parts of South America, on the coast of Rio de la Hacha, the Guajiros swallow lime alone, without adding any vegetable matter to it. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Yet what is more accidental, and more simply the consequence of physical agencies, than the accumulation of vegetable matter in a peat-bog, and its transformation into coal? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 To grow this shrub to perfection, peaty soil or decayed vegetable matter will be found most suitable. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs There is generally a green, slime-covered, sluggish stream in all these forests, its channel choked with rotting leaves and decaying vegetable matter. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter Rarely, I believe, unless when mixed with vegetable matter. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health Countless myriads of bacteria are silently at work changing dead animal and vegetable matter into useful substances. A Practical Physiology The cause of this heat is the slow combustion of the leaves and other vegetable matter of the boundless and interminable forests. Domestic Manners of the Americans Their requirements are by no means hard to meet, light, peaty soil, or even good sandy loam, with a small admixture of decayed vegetable matter, suiting them well. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs These are all but varieties of the same kind of thing—namely, vegetable matter? Town Geology But no gases necessary to health are evolved during the decomposition of vegetable matter; on the contrary, it is well known that many of them tend to induce disease. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health It was weak and feeble at first, but a step removed from vegetable matter. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod All soil which has become foul by the soakage of decaying or vegetable matter should be similarly treated. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics This is what makes him so particularly fond of garden soil, because it is richer in animal and vegetable matter than common earth, and proves therefore more nourishing food. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals When it was first seen that coal had been once vegetable, the question arose—How did all these huge masses of vegetable matter get there? Town Geology Traces of this new decomposed vegetable covering can be seen on every side of the trench, and it is quite evident this vegetable matter originally extended across and above the statue. The American Goliah Swine.—The filthy state of hog-pens is allowed on account of the amount of manure they will make by working over all sorts of vegetable matter, spoiled hay, weeds, etc., etc. American Woman's Home Nearly all of his uplands have been depleted of organic or vegetable matter. Nature's Serial Story The soil seemed as if made up of decayed and pulverized rock, and doubtless contained very little vegetable matter. Locusts and Wild Honey You say that coal is transformed vegetable matter; but can you show us how the transformation takes place? Town Geology On the surface of Franconia, where the limestone abounds in caverns, is a fertile soil in which vegetable matter is continually decaying. The Antiquity of Man The next is our pine land; soil light, and of grayish color, nearly devoid of vegetable matter, but largely supplied with lime and potash. Success with Small Fruits Sandy soils predominate somewhat in this section, though there are tracts in which clay is in great excess, and other tracts in which vegetable matter is in great excess. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time There are, even on the hillsides, small ridges depressions, partly belonging to the original distribution of the soil, and partly occasioned by irregularities in the growth and deposit of vegetable matter. The Earth as Modified by Human Action Mud does not become rock in man's time, nor vegetable matter become coal. Time and Change Allowing about fourteen centuries for the growth of the superincumbent vegetable matter, he calculated that the thickness gained in a hundred years would be no more than three centimetres.* The Antiquity of Man Bottom lands have the usual deposits of muck and partially decomposed vegetable matter. Success with Small Fruits A knowledge of the geology of a State affords the key to its soils; since the soils are formed by the disintegration of the underlying rocks, more or less mixed with animal or vegetable matter. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time The carnivorous and often herbivorous insects render another important service to man by consuming dead and decaying animal and vegetable matter, the decomposition of which would otherwise fill the air with effluvia noxious to health. The Earth as Modified by Human Action For instance, while it seems to operate uniformly upon vegetable matter, there are curious modifications when one applies it to animal and mineral substances. Tales of Chinatown Thus I was shown a mammoth's tooth in the museum at Torquay in Devonshire which is believed to have been dredged up from a deposit of vegetable matter now partially submerged beneath the sea. The Antiquity of Man Such light land is generally very deficient in vegetable matter; and therefore, whenever it is possible, I would turn under green crops. Success with Small Fruits |
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