The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... covered with root hairs . The Minnesota Station found about eight branch roots to the inch on the main roots to a depth of eighteen to twenty inches , varying in length from one - half inch to twenty inches . Below this distance few or ...
... covered with root hairs . The Minnesota Station found about eight branch roots to the inch on the main roots to a depth of eighteen to twenty inches , varying in length from one - half inch to twenty inches . Below this distance few or ...
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... covering with earth , both roots and culms ( branches ) will form at any node upon the culm . Ordi- narily , however , branches form only at the lower nodes . The number of branches which can form from a single culm is necessarily lim ...
... covering with earth , both roots and culms ( branches ) will form at any node upon the culm . Ordi- narily , however , branches form only at the lower nodes . The number of branches which can form from a single culm is necessarily lim ...
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... covered by the sheath of a leaf , and extending about half way to the surface of the soil . In case the seed is planted two inches deep this rhizome is about one inch long . At the top of this internode a joint bears a leaf , and a few ...
... covered by the sheath of a leaf , and extending about half way to the surface of the soil . In case the seed is planted two inches deep this rhizome is about one inch long . At the top of this internode a joint bears a leaf , and a few ...
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... covering or bran · Per cent 6-7 3-4 82-86 · 5 Girard gives the per cent of embryo in four varieties of wheat as 1.50 , 1.41 , 1.35 and 1.16 respectively.3 Since the mill products of wheat average considerably less than nine per cent ...
... covering or bran · Per cent 6-7 3-4 82-86 · 5 Girard gives the per cent of embryo in four varieties of wheat as 1.50 , 1.41 , 1.35 and 1.16 respectively.3 Since the mill products of wheat average considerably less than nine per cent ...
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... covering a series of years and several conditions of fertilization , high weight per bushel was associated with large percentage of starch . Lawes and Gilbert conclude that " High percentage of nitrogen is by no means a characteristic ...
... covering a series of years and several conditions of fertilization , high weight per bushel was associated with large percentage of starch . Lawes and Gilbert conclude that " High percentage of nitrogen is by no means a characteristic ...
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aleurone aleurone layer barley bran breeding bushels bushels per acre cent cereals climate clover color common wheat corn crop crude fiber culm cultivated dent maize drill dry matter ears embryo endosperm farm feet field five flint flour flowering glume fodder four germination gliadin glumes gluten grade grain grass growing grown growth harrow harvested Hessian fly hull husk Illinois Station inches deep increase influence injury insects land less lime maize plant manure maturity method nitrogen North North Dakota oats obtained panicle percentage phosphoric acid plat plowing pollen pounds produced protein rachis rainfall rice ripening roots rows season seed bed selection silage smut soil sowing sown species spike spikelets spring wheat stalks starch Station found stover straw sweet maize tassel tion U. S. Dept usually variation vary weeds winter wheat yellow yield of grain yield of maize
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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?