The Fertility of the Soil
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Excerpt from The Fertility of the Soil: Being the Seventeenth Robert Boyle Lecture Delivered Before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club on the 3rd of June, 1910 When I first received the invitation to deliver the lecture I found it very difficult to select a subject. The ´Boyle´ lecturer is expected to talk about his own subject; but I live so far away from the broad highways of science that I could expect very few of my audience to possess any knowledge of the country around me. I do not admit that any branch of science can be dull if only it finds its competent expositor; yet I cannot hope to excite in others such interest as I have in the drama of the soil, a drama which tells of the strife between plants and their innumerable microscopic antagonists. Remembering, however, that Oxford is the home of many movements, I shall endeavour to secure your attention by tracing the history of a science, and telling you of the successive stages of our knowledge, instead of giving an account of some rather technical piece of work. I have therefore chosen as my subject The Fertility of the Soil - a title vague enough to allow a little liberty of digression. But when I say I shall talk of the fertility of the soil, I do mean, however, to discuss the reasons why one piece of land, say, should yield large crops, whilst another piece near by only small crops, the differences being so real that a farmer will pay three or even four pounds an acre rent for some land, whereas he will regard other as dear at ten shillings an acre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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