The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... adapted to extensive rather than intensive methods of culture . There are exceptions to this rule . Sugar beets are classed with field crops , although the methods of culture are somewhat intensive , while all varieties of fruit are ...
... adapted to extensive rather than intensive methods of culture . There are exceptions to this rule . Sugar beets are classed with field crops , although the methods of culture are somewhat intensive , while all varieties of fruit are ...
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... adapted to wet lands , while Kentucky blue grass in the northern and Bermuda grass in the southern portions of the United States are the principal ones used for pastures and lawns . 9. Legumes for Hay and Pasture . - There are in the ...
... adapted to wet lands , while Kentucky blue grass in the northern and Bermuda grass in the southern portions of the United States are the principal ones used for pastures and lawns . 9. Legumes for Hay and Pasture . - There are in the ...
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... adapted to wheat and grass than for maize and potatoes , while other soils are much better adapted to maize and potatoes . Tobacco is a crop that is readily affected by the character of the soil . Plants , like animals , have great ...
... adapted to wheat and grass than for maize and potatoes , while other soils are much better adapted to maize and potatoes . Tobacco is a crop that is readily affected by the character of the soil . Plants , like animals , have great ...
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... adapted to the climate and soil of a given region : at least as a leading crop . 23 . The Profitableness of a Given Crop . - Depends not only on the climate and soil , but very largely on the market facilities , and , so far as the ...
... adapted to the climate and soil of a given region : at least as a leading crop . 23 . The Profitableness of a Given Crop . - Depends not only on the climate and soil , but very largely on the market facilities , and , so far as the ...
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... adapted to the crop frequent new supplies of seed may be helpful and even essential . Probably no part of the world is better adapted to maize than is much of the central Mississippi valley . There would seem to be no good reason for ...
... adapted to the crop frequent new supplies of seed may be helpful and even essential . Probably no part of the world is better adapted to maize than is much of the central Mississippi valley . There would seem to be no good reason for ...
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Página 14 - What would be the result? In five staples only in the United States alone the inexhaustible forces of nature would produce annually without effort and without cost: « 5,200,000 extra bushels of corn : 15,000,000 extra bushels of wheat; 20,000,000 extra bushels of oats; 1,500,000 extra bushels of barley; 21,000,000 extra bushels of potatoes.
Página 343 - No. 3 barley shall Include slightly shrunken and otherwise slightly damaged barley not good enough for No. 2. No. 4 barley shall include all barley fit for malting purposes not good enough for No. 3. No. 5...
Página 275 - No. 3 Yellow Corn shall be three-fourths yellow, reasonably dry and reasonably clean, but not sufficiently sound for No. 2.
Página 14 - The vast possibilities of plant breedinig can hardly be estimated. It would not be difficult for one man to breed a new rye, wheat, barley, oats or rice which would produce one grain more to each head, or a corn which would produce an extra kernel to each ear, another potato to each plant, or an apple, plum, orange or nut to each tree. What would be the result?
Página 15 - But these vast possibilities are not alone for one year, or for our own time or race, but are beneficent legacies for every man, woman or child who shall ever inhabit the earth. And who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their graceful forms and bewitching shades and combinations of colors, and exquisitely varied perfumes?