bone-earth

(Containing phosphoric acid, 3.40 per cent.) (Equal to bone-earth, 7.36 per cent.)

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

The quantity of gypsum, bone-earth, and magnesia, available as food for plants, varies in an equal degree.

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. P. L. Simmonds

(Containing phosphoric acid, 3.18 per cent.) (Equal to bone-earth, 6.88 per cent.)

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

A young growing animal, whether a child or a colt, that is kept on food which lacks _bone-earth_, (phosphate of lime,) will have soft cartilaginous bones.

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. P. L. Simmonds

It is also called the basic phosphate of lime, and not unfrequently the ‘bone-earth phosphate.’

Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860

The rich grasses will dwindle for want of ammonia (that is smelling salts), and the rich clovers for want of phosphates (that is bone-earth): and in their places will come over the bank the old weeds and grass off the moor, which have not room to get in now, because the ground is coveted already.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

Because hops, like tobacco and vines, take more phosphorus out of the soil than any other plants which we grow in England; and it is the washings of this bone-earth bed which make the lower lands in Farnham so unusually rich, that in some of them -- the garden, for instance, under the

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

And what is stranger still, this same bone-earth bed crops out on the south side of the chalk at Farnham, and stretches along the foot of those downs, right into Kent, making the richest hop lands in

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

Copiolites is good; but the superphosphate from fresh bones is better still, and therefore dearer, because it has in it the fibrine of the bones, which is full of nitrogen, like gristle or meat; and all that has been washed out of the bone-earth bed ages and ages ago.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

The mammalia obtained from the bone-earth consisted of Elephas primigenius, or mammoth; Rhinoceros tichorhinus; Ursus spelaeus;

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836