The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... better 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 ...
... better 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 ...
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... better opportunity of making a good reputation and of getting some- what higher prices . He may be able to produce more cheaply by better use of machinery . Specialties which require most of intelligence and skill may give largest ...
... better opportunity of making a good reputation and of getting some- what higher prices . He may be able to produce more cheaply by better use of machinery . Specialties which require most of intelligence and skill may give largest ...
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... better fruits and fairer flowers . " Cultivation and care may help plants to do better work temporarily , but by breeding , plants may be brought into existence which will do better work always , in all places and for all time . Plants ...
... better fruits and fairer flowers . " Cultivation and care may help plants to do better work temporarily , but by breeding , plants may be brought into existence which will do better work always , in all places and for all time . Plants ...
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... better animals mated . In the case of plants there is not only usually no mating , but the mature individual from ... better than a large grain from a poor , indifferently - bred indi- vidual . Other things equal , a small tuber from a ...
... better animals mated . In the case of plants there is not only usually no mating , but the mature individual from ... better than a large grain from a poor , indifferently - bred indi- vidual . Other things equal , a small tuber from a ...
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... better adapted to maize than is much of the central Mississippi valley . There would seem to be no good reason for changing seed of maize in this region . Much of this same region is not equally well suited for the oat crop . The ...
... better adapted to maize than is much of the central Mississippi valley . There would seem to be no good reason for changing seed of maize in this region . Much of this same region is not equally well suited for the oat crop . The ...
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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?