Lessons on Soil | Page 2

E.J. Russell
IN THE
SOIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 VIII. THE SOIL AND THE
PLANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 IX. CULTIVATION AND
TILLAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 X. THE SOIL AND THE
COUNTRYSIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 XI. HOW SOIL HAS BEEN
MADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
128 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

[Transcriber's note: The page numbers below are those in the original
book. However, in this e-book, to avoid the splitting of paragraphs, the
illustrations may have been moved to the page preceding or following.]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE PAGE
1. Soil and subsoil in St George's School garden . . . . 2
2. Columns showing what 100 parts of soil and subsoil were made

of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Columns showing what 100 parts of dried soil and subsoil were
made of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Clay shrinks when it dries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5. Clay swells up when it is placed in water . . . . . . 12
6. Landslip in the Isle of Wight. Phot. Valentine &
Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. Clay does not let water run through . . . . . . . . . 14
8. Sand allows air to pass through but clay does not . . 15
9. A brick allows both air and water to pass through it 17
10. Lime added to turbid clay water soon makes the clay
settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11. Sand dunes, Penhale, Cornwall. Phot. Geological
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
12. Blowing sand covering up meadows and ruining them. Phot.
Geological Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
13. Model of a spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
14. Foot of chalk hill at Harpenden where a spring breaks out. Phot.
Lionel Armstrong . . . . . . . . . . . 27
15. The little pool and the spring. Phot. Lionel
Armstrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
16. Water spouting up from a bore hole, Old Cateriag Quarry, Dunbar.
Phot. Geological Survey . . . . . 29
17. Sandy soils in wet and in dry positions . . . . . . . 31

18. Map of the roads round Wye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
19. Peat bog in Hoy, Orkney: peat is being cut for fuel. Phot. Valentine
& Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
20. Rye growing in surface soil, subsoil, and sand . . . . 42
21. Mustard growing in surface soil, subsoil, and sand . . 43
22. Mustard growing in soil previously cropped with rye, and in soil
previously uncropped . . . . . . . . . . 45
23. Pieces of grass, leaves, etc. change to plant food in the surface soil
lint not in the subsoil . . . . . 50
24. Soil in which earthworms have been living and making
burrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
25. Fresh soil turns milk bad, but baked soil does not . . 57
26. Soil contains tiny living things that grow on gelatine 58
27. Our breath makes lime water turn milky . . . . . . . . 59
28. Something in the soil uses up air and makes lime water turn
milky . . . . . . . .
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