The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... containing a large proportion of cellulose or crude fiber . In a more limited and technical sense a forage crop is an annual crop in which the whole plant is used for food . Thus maize is a cereal crop when the ears are husked and fed ...
... containing a large proportion of cellulose or crude fiber . In a more limited and technical sense a forage crop is an annual crop in which the whole plant is used for food . Thus maize is a cereal crop when the ears are husked and fed ...
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... contain a high per cent of butter fat it would not be considered remarkable , yet the definite breeding of farm crops is so unusual as to create great interest in this new enterprise . The fundamental principles in breeding are the same ...
... contain a high per cent of butter fat it would not be considered remarkable , yet the definite breeding of farm crops is so unusual as to create great interest in this new enterprise . The fundamental principles in breeding are the same ...
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... contains from 15 to 20 per cent of sugar and is otherwise improved . By similar methods , wheat , flax , timothy and other farm crops are being systematically bred for definite characters . The proper method to be employed will be ...
... contains from 15 to 20 per cent of sugar and is otherwise improved . By similar methods , wheat , flax , timothy and other farm crops are being systematically bred for definite characters . The proper method to be employed will be ...
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... containing several heads and many seeds which have been produced from a single seed . In the case of the potato it is the single hill and not the single potato . However , in plants , unlike higher animals , portions may be used for the ...
... containing several heads and many seeds which have been produced from a single seed . In the case of the potato it is the single hill and not the single potato . However , in plants , unlike higher animals , portions may be used for the ...
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... containing next to the smallest weight of maize , produced the heaviest yield of maize . This ear weighed 14 per cent less than the average weight of the fourteen ears and yielded 32 per cent more than the average yield of the same ...
... containing next to the smallest weight of maize , produced the heaviest yield of maize . This ear weighed 14 per cent less than the average weight of the fourteen ears and yielded 32 per cent more than the average yield of the same ...
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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?