Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1910 - 274 páginas |
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... increased pay , are selected to care for stock . Some farmers pay selected hands five cents per basket and one cent per crate additional for packing cucumbers and tomatoes ; while others use the gang of day laborers for the purpose ...
... increased pay , are selected to care for stock . Some farmers pay selected hands five cents per basket and one cent per crate additional for packing cucumbers and tomatoes ; while others use the gang of day laborers for the purpose ...
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... increasing capacity of gathering , retaining , and supplying plant food . The conditions of quality of soil and ... increases the fertility and pulverization of the soil by admitting air . It keeps the ground moister in a dry season . It ...
... increasing capacity of gathering , retaining , and supplying plant food . The conditions of quality of soil and ... increases the fertility and pulverization of the soil by admitting air . It keeps the ground moister in a dry season . It ...
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... increasing its fertility and pulverizing it . The rea- son why drained land gains heat , and the temperature of water - logged land decreases , is the lack of heat - conducting power in water , or the fact that air can not be ...
... increasing its fertility and pulverizing it . The rea- son why drained land gains heat , and the temperature of water - logged land decreases , is the lack of heat - conducting power in water , or the fact that air can not be ...
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... increased . One hundred grains of fine clay left for twelve hours in contact with a solution of caustic potash , the latter not filtered through it , absorbed one thousand and fifty grains of potash . Soils have the power of separating ...
... increased . One hundred grains of fine clay left for twelve hours in contact with a solution of caustic potash , the latter not filtered through it , absorbed one thousand and fifty grains of potash . Soils have the power of separating ...
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... increases the capillary attraction of the soil , by which its humidity is rendered more uni- form ; by presenting a larger number of points of radia tion , the deposit of dew , so beneficial in 14 TRUCK - FARMING AT THE SOUTH .
... increases the capillary attraction of the soil , by which its humidity is rendered more uni- form ; by presenting a larger number of points of radia tion , the deposit of dew , so beneficial in 14 TRUCK - FARMING AT THE SOUTH .
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Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for ... A. Oemler Vista completa - 1900 |
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Página 169 - Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.