The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... five million bushels of maize , not next year alone but for years to come . This is the significance of improved seed . " The vast possibilities of plant breeding can hardly be estimated . It would not be difficult for one man to breed ...
... five million bushels of maize , not next year alone but for years to come . This is the significance of improved seed . " The vast possibilities of plant breeding can hardly be estimated . It would not be difficult for one man to breed ...
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... five inches square , with twenty sections to the inch , or five by ten inches , ten sections to the inch , and have each plot the curve indicated by the weight of the hundred ears . If necessary to save time , the instructor may have ...
... five inches square , with twenty sections to the inch , or five by ten inches , ten sections to the inch , and have each plot the curve indicated by the weight of the hundred ears . If necessary to save time , the instructor may have ...
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... five feet ; probably the average height is four feet . The length of the culm has an important influence upon the liability to lodge , and also influences the ease of harvesting . It seems probable that the yield of straw may affect the ...
... five feet ; probably the average height is four feet . The length of the culm has an important influence upon the liability to lodge , and also influences the ease of harvesting . It seems probable that the yield of straw may affect the ...
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... five to sixty - five pounds per bushel , and greater extremes have been noted . The color of the grain varies from a very light yellow through varying grades of amber to dark red . Hardness of grain and high nitrogen content are usually ...
... five to sixty - five pounds per bushel , and greater extremes have been noted . The color of the grain varies from a very light yellow through varying grades of amber to dark red . Hardness of grain and high nitrogen content are usually ...
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... five per cent in weight by the absorption of water when transported to a temperate climate , while a gain of five to fifteen per cent might be looked for with absolute certainty . A difference of nine per cent was observed in twenty ...
... five per cent in weight by the absorption of water when transported to a temperate climate , while a gain of five to fifteen per cent might be looked for with absolute certainty . A difference of nine per cent was observed in twenty ...
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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?