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Página 593 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Página 319 - Here then is a whole species, I may say genus, of birds, which Providence seems to have formed for the protection of our fruit and forest trees, from the ravages of vermin; which every day destroy millions of those noxious insects, that would otherwise blast the hopes of the husbandman; and...
Página 359 - ... removal of certain materials from the soil, materials which serve to feed the crop and become a part of it, and which, by continually taking off harvest after harvest, become diminished in quantity, so that after a certain time there is not enough left in the soil to produce a fair crop, or else it means that the materials which may still exist in the soil no longer occur in that condition in which the crop can make use of them. We may have a soil containing potash in large quantities, many hundred...
Página 384 - He separated them from the soil by the following expedient. An excavation was made in the field to the depth of six feet, and a stream of water was directed against the vertical wall of soil until it was washed away, so that the roots of the plants growing in it were laid bare. The roots thus exposed in a field of rye, in one of beans, and in a bed of garden peas, presented the appearance of a mat, or felt of white fibres, to a depth of about four feet from the surface of the ground.
Página 321 - ... have myself carefully examined, those trees which were marked by the woodpecker (for some trees they never touch, perhaps because not penetrated by insects,) were uniformly the most thriving, and seemingly the most productive; many of these were upwards of sixty years old, their trunks completely covered with holes, while the branches were broad, luxuriant, and loaded with fruit.
Página 191 - On that scrap of solid ground, rescued by human energy from the ocean, were the most fertile pastures in the world. On those pastures grazed the most famous cattle in the world. An ox often weighed more than two thousand pounds.
Página 386 - Indian-corn roots have been traced for twenty feet in a sand-bank, that it is the habit of the maize plant to send out roots twenty feet long. The length depends upon the soil rather more than upon the plant. It is greatly to be desired that our knowledge of the relative development of the roots of our various crops should be completed. The roots are in one sense the most important part of the plant. We cannot influence a field crop, except through the roots. We do not manure the tops, or operate...
Página 380 - ... rotation; which was: 1, Summer Fallow, manured. 2, Winter Coleseed. 3, Wheat and Kye. •4, Legumes, manured. 5, Rye. 6, Potatoes. 7, Clover and grass. 8, Clover hay. 9, Pasture till 1st July, then summer fallow. 10, Rye and Wheat, " half manured." It is a great advantage, in the conduct of a large estate of four or five hundred acres, to have the whole system of cropping made up beforehand, so that the men can tell just what is to be done from year to year. The management of farm labor is simplified...
Página 377 - They used the same land for several years, until its "condition" was gone, or until it was no longer remunerative, and then they left it and plowed up another piece. The old field would grow up to grass, and after a number of years they would come round to it again and sow it to grain. That was the earliest and simplest plan of conducting farming. In those days, there was but little skill or thought bestowed upon agriculture. The intelligence of the world was mainly given to government, war, and...
Página 384 - ... four feet." Schubart further collected and weighed the roots of wheat, rye, and peas, and ascertained their proportion of the entire plant Hellriegel has also published some observations on the extent of the roots of barley and oats. We have a few other observations of this sort, but not enough to enable us to determine the comparative quantity and depth of the roots of our cultivated plants with any accuracy. It will not do to draw conclusions as to the length of roots from such observations...