In short, subsisting on irrigated commercially-grown potatoes, or on those grown on relatively infertilesoils receiving abundant rainfall will make you fat and sick.
Manioc might seem the answer to human starvation because it will grow abundantly on tropical soils so infertile and/or so droughty that no other food crop will succeed there.
Statistical tables of the nutrient content of foods were developed by averaging numerous samples of food from various soils and regions.
If soils were composed of nothing but pure silica sand, nothing would ever grow; but in Nature we find that soils contain all sorts of mineral matter, and chief among these is lime.
In every ounce of soil there are millions of these living germs, which have their allotted work to do, and they thrive best in soils containing lime.
The soils of Iowa have a value equal to all of the silver and gold mines of the world combined.
It covered the stiff intractable clays that would otherwise have been the only soils of the region.
Soils are everywhere the product of rock disintegration, and so the quality of the soils in a given locality must necessarily be determined in large measure by the kind of rock from which they were derived.
The soils of the state were produced by the action of the ice in what is known as the glacial period.
And for this rich heritage of soils we are indebted to great rivers of ice that overflowed Iowa from the north and northwest.
Soils of uniform excellence would have been impossible in a non-glacial Iowa.
The inductive history of Linn county, reasoned out from what we have learned of the lie of the land, the shapes of hills and valleys, the soils and subsoils, and the underlying rocks, is a wonderfully long one.
For long ages its rocks were covered with rich soils supporting a luxuriant vegetation, probably tropical in its aspect.
From this point of view, therefore, the history of Iowa's superb soils begins with first steps in rock making.
Climatic conditions and poor soils severely limit farm output, and Libya imports about 75% of its food requirements.
Poor soils and inadequate water supplies hamper the development of agriculture.
The underwoods here consist, almost entirely, of hazle, which is very fine, and much tougher and more durable than that which grows on soils with a moist bottom.
They say that "variety is charming," and this day I have had of scenes and of soils a variety indeed!
The turnips are pretty good all over the country, except upon the very thinsoils on the chalk.
A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
That whichsoils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
They prefer the gravelly or rocky soils at levels of three to five thousand feet, and grow over drab bajadas and somber foothill slopes near the high Santa Ritas, where they were discovered by Dr.
Field plants may be transplanted at almost any season in gravelly or clay loam soils and given enough water to moisten the soil during dry spells.
Plants grow readily in gravelly loam or limestonesoils and may be transplanted at any season.
This Cholla grows best in gravelly or rocky soils in the hot interior valleys of Southern California.
These plants grow in the sandy soils of the desert areas of southern New Mexico and southern Arizona and adjacent old Mexico.
Wislizeni grows well in the sandy loamy clay soils of the desert bajadas and along the foothills.
Plants transplant readily to rocky or gravelly clay soils at almost any season, if the thick fleshy roots are not injured in digging.
The plants grow in sandy or gravelly clay soils and should be watered monthly until well established.
It grows best in sandy or gravelly soils and sunny exposures.
Over the arid sandy or gravelly soils of the southwestern desert, this fierce Cholla has fought his way and proved his right to existence, asking nothing from the hand of man and having little to give.
Although such soils are difficult to plant in, stony soil or soil overlaid with limestone results in good growth.
Here is also a nugget or ingot, and here are some small pieces gathered out of certain alluvial soils in Brazil, Mexico, California, and the Uralian districts of Russia.
Roughly speaking, soils may be divided into heavy and light—those that hold wet and those that do not.
Climatic conditions and poor soils severely limit agricultural output, and Libya imports about 75% of its food.
Livestock raising is the most important agricultural activity; poor soils limit the islands' ability to meet domestic food requirements.
However, the proper restoration of bacterial life in soils to keep the soil fungi in check proved effective.
To control the organisms of soils and plants is probably the most difficult problem in microbiology.
From the two foregoing examples it is seen that in the case of banana blight, fungi had to be suppressed by bacteriae, but that for pine trees on poor English soils fungi had to be activated for proper tree nutrition.
There is where tree nutrition must begin; whatever is neglected in soils can at best only temporarily be adjusted afterwards.
Maps showed that the blight was worst where there was least lime, and that the chestnut trees died last in Tennessee, where soils are high in lime.
In regard to inorganic nutrients, more attention has probably been devoted to citrus trees than to any other tree species, largely because the soils of Florida and California require additions thereof.
Planted on poor, acid, eroded soils in the hill country, these have barely survived.
Physical Soil Characteristics That the primary requisites for tree growing are the physical characteristics of all soils favorable for that purpose requires no discussion.
Logan rocks are simply a freak of nature, in spite of the Druidic nonsense that has been talked about them; softer soils have been eroded beneath, and the rock has remained balanced.
The greater or less resistance of different rocks and soils has affected not only coast-configurations, but therewith also the very existence and well-being of the inhabitants.
It is much employed against cavalry, and on rocky soils serves as a substitute for palisades.
Experience is the best guide in estimating the amount of hay or grain that may be taken from a given field: the produce of an acre is, of course, very different for different soils and climates.
The form of the crater caused by an explosion in ordinary soils is assumed to be a truncated cone, the diameter, c d, (Fig.
Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants.
This is the wage of the wood gatherer in the mountains, of the builder of granaries, sementeras, irrigating ditches, and dikes, and of those who prepare soils and who plant and harvest crops.
Apparently the waters were slowly receding, since the earth about the margins was supporting the short, coarse grasses that tell of the gradual drying out of soils once covered with water.
This is attributed to the effects of alkaline waters or soils coming into contact with the structures, or to the constituent materials used.
Some have grown in the moist soils of the valleys for so many generations that they have become adapted to these conditions and will not thrive on the elevated plateaus and mountain slopes.
On poor soils it, like any other kind of plant, will respond to fertilizers.
Of all soils a sandy one is the poorest for the production of bloom, although, on the contrary, for the rapid production of roots the lighter soilsare ideal.
Mr. Moyer: What do those black soils in the western part of the state need?
The fine sifted ashes will render the tougher hardsoils more friable, their chief virtue being lightening it.
Such soils not only produce roots much more rapidly than the heavier soils, but produce a root that divides easier and to better advantage.
So out of the department of soils you expect to get the result of careful and scientific study of the nature of soils.
In somesoils they do not do well, but with us grow rampant.
Their roots run somewhat shallow, and hence sandy or friable soils are not desirable.
For strawberries it is slightly harmful on our ordinary soils that are originally well supplied with lime.
If it is not well supplied with lime there may be four, but the bulk of your soils are good enough so far as lime is concerned.
It was originated in eastern Canada, and it was introduced here some twenty-five years ago by the Princeton Nursery Company of Illinois and has proven to be very hardy on different soils and locations.
The professor of soils was having his brains picked, as he had a perfect right to have, by you.
In nitrogen our prairie soils are remarkably rich when first plowed up.
In the forests of Central New York, the plant is most abundant on hillsides sloping north and east, and in limestone soils where basswood or butternut predominate.
Soils and fertilizers have a marked influence on products where taste and flavor is important, as with tobacco, coffee, tea, certain fruits, etc.
Tho your soil be very rich it is a good plan to cover it with three or four inches of leaf mold and spade about ten inches deep so that the two soils will be well mixed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
