Investigations in Soil Management: Amount of Plant Food Readily Recoverable From Field Soils With Distilled Water; Relation of Crop Yields to the ... Relation of Differences of Climatological
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The three parts of this bulletin were originally prepared, in accord ance with the advice Of the Secretary Of Agriculture, to be printed as separate bulletins; they appear here, including the preface, as arranged by the editors, but with no essential alteration Of the subject matter.
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Principles And Conditions Of The Movements Of Ground Water
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Franklin Hiram King, Charles Sumner Slichter, Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Proceedings of the American Forestry Association, Vol. 11: At the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Annual Meetings, December, 1894, and January, 1896, at ... Y., And Springfield, Mass (Classic Reprint)
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These results show but a small difference in the rate of evap oration until 100 or 120 feet distance is reached, but at 120 feet the rate of evaporation was per cent. Greater than at 20 feet.
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We have not yet gathered up the experience of mankind in the tilling of the earth; yet the tilling of the earth is the bottom condition of civilization. If we are to assemble all the forces and agencies that make for the final conquest of the planet, we must assuredly know how it is that all the peoples in all the places have met the problem of producing their sustenance out of the soil.
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This was the point of view in which I read Professor King's manuscript. It is the writing of a well-trained observer who went forth not to find diversion or to depict scenery and common wonders, but to study the actual conditions of life of agricultural peoples.
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Believing fully in the soundness of these words, the writer, in preparing this treatise, has aimed to present the most practical and fundamental facts and principles concerning the soil as largely as possible from the stand point of the How? And the Why? And at the same time to pause now and then to View some of the wonderful adaptations of structure to physical environment which the long processes of evolution have finally produced. We can well afford to do this because the future develop ment of agriculture can be made most rapid and most sure, not more by giving to the farmer new facts than by making him able to Observe, interpret, and correlate the facts which each and every year's planting, hoeing.
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Franklin Hiram King was an American agricultural scientist. He served as a professor of agricultural physics at the University of Wisconsin from 1888 to 1902 and as a chief of the Division of Soil Management in the USDA Bureau of Soils in Washington, D. C. from 1901 to 1904.
Background
Franklin Hiram King was the son of Edmund King and Deborah (Loomer) King. His paternal ancestors were Green Mountain folk, and from them he inherited great physical energy and strength of mind. His mother, a Nova Scotian, gave him his love of the out-of-doors and an ability to express his thoughts in pure and simple English. Franklin was born on June 08, 1848 on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States, in the days when the state was frontier land. The boy grew up in an environment which developed his natural seriousness of purpose and a thoroughness in whatever he did.
Education
From the time Franklin was seven until he was nineteen, his education was obtained chiefly from experience on the farm. Then he attended Whitewater Normal School, at that time a newly opened institution, where he was instructed by Thomas C. Chamberlin, who later became president of the University of Wisconsin. Under his personal guidance, King's real interest in science began. Later he proceeded his studies at Cornell University, where he worked under the well-known entomologist, Comstock. At Cornell, he examined the stomachs of more than 2, 000 birds, determining what insects formed part of their diet. He also spent a great deal of time in the study of physics, chemistry, biology, and geology.
Career
The years 1873 to 1876 King spent in teaching science in high school at Berlin, Wisconsin. There he published A Scheme for Plant Analysis (1875), which was afterwards incorporated in Wood's botanies. Under Chamberlain, King had worked for a time on the state geological survey. During this period, he also made a study of the economics of bird life in the northern woods.
Later he taught science for ten years in the River Falls Normal School, his summers being used for further study. It was during this period that he prepared relief models and maps of the continents to be used for instruction in physiography and meteorology. In this work King was a pioneer. In 1888, he was called to the Wisconsin College of Agriculture to occupy the chair of agricultural physics, the first to be established in the United States. In this field, his contributions to agriculture were varied and valuable.
His books present the results of his researches in an interesting and a permanent way. The Soil was written in 1895, Irrigation and Drainage in 1899, A Textbook of the Physics of Agriculture in 1900, and Ventilation for Dwellings, Rural Schools and Stables, in 1908. His findings are also recorded in bulletins of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, in publications of the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Geological Survey, and in encyclopedia and periodical articles. The Soil has been translated into Chinese and is widely read in China.
His interest in birds led him to give considerable attention to popular nature study. He wrote many articles for educational journals under the headings, "Our Observations on Birds, " "By the Wayside, " and others. The results of his bird study were also published under the title, "Economic Relations of Wisconsin Birds, " in Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879. From 1901 to 1904, he was chief of the division of soil management of the United States Bureau of Soils. Then he retired from this office to write and to travel. As a result of his journeys in China, Korea, and Japan, he wrote Farmers of Forty Centuries (1911), which came from the press just after his death. This book is his outstanding work, for it was the most detailed and accurate account of soil management and methods of maintaining soil fertility in the Orient.
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Personality
King's most remarkable mental characteristics were his scientific honesty and accuracy, his open-minded search for truth, his keen powers of observation, and his ability to apply science to the practical problems of agriculture.
Connections
At Berlin King married in 1880 Carrie H. Baker. To her untiring devotion and interest in his work much of his later scientific success was due, and he never failed to acknowledge this debt.