The Elements of Agriculture / A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools

by George E. Waring

FOOTNOTES:

[J] This pectic acid gelatinizes food in the stomach, and thus renders it more digestible.

[K] See Johnston's Elements, page 41.

[L] Sifted through a fine cloth called a bolting cloth.

CHAPTER VIII.

RECAPITULATION.

We have now learned as much about the plant as is required for our immediate uses, and we will carefully reconsider the various points with a view to fixing them permanently in the mind.

Plants are composed of organic and inorganic matter.

What is organic matter? Inorganic?

Of what does organic matter consist? Inorganic?