Description - The Lure of the Land; Farming After Fifty by Harvey Washington Wiley
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... XX THE GENESIS OF THE SOIL AND ITS POSSIBILITIES THE ordinary, intelligent farmer may be very successful, understand thoroughly the principles of agriculture and the methods of applying them, without being a specialist in geology or chemistry. At the same time he is interested in a general way in the genesis of the soil, how it has arisen, what is its constitution, and other scientific facts connected with it. An attempt to present some of the principal facts and theories in connection with soil evolution, without going into the refinement of the sciences or details and illustrations, may be pardoned. Such an attempt I made in an address before the National Geographic Society, in the winter of 1911 and 1912. With the permission of the editors of the National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D. C, the address is given below: THE GENESIS OF THE EARTH. "One of the oft-repeated theories concerning the origin of our earth is that at a remote period all the matter of which the earth consists at present was a part of the incandescent gas which filled the space now assigned to our solar system. As the cooling of this mass of gas progressed vortex rings were formed of gaseous matter. These on further cooling broke and rolled together, forming the sun, the planets, and the satellites of our present system. The next condition of the incandescent gas was incandescent liquid, -which came in due season as time rolled by. Finally, by the further process of cooling, a crust was formed upon the surface of these liquids which was the beginning of the solid surface of the earth. This crust would naturally be of the same composition as the liquid matter from which it was formed--practically homogeneous in character and consisting of the mineral matters only...
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