The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... percentage of area in cereals , hay and forage , and fiber crops to total farm area in each State . The data may be obtained from census reports or the reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture . 28. COLLATERral Reading . - Corn ...
... percentage of area in cereals , hay and forage , and fiber crops to total farm area in each State . The data may be obtained from census reports or the reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture . 28. COLLATERral Reading . - Corn ...
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... percentage of water wheat contains as it goes on the market cannot be stated , but it has been shown to vary largely from day to day with varying con- ditions of the atmosphere . In California , where the atmosphere inland is very dry ...
... percentage of water wheat contains as it goes on the market cannot be stated , but it has been shown to vary largely from day to day with varying con- ditions of the atmosphere . In California , where the atmosphere inland is very dry ...
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... percentage of starch . Lawes and Gilbert conclude that " High percentage of nitrogen is by no means a characteristic of the wheats held in highest estimation either by the miller or the baker ; and that so far as both the baker and ...
... percentage of starch . Lawes and Gilbert conclude that " High percentage of nitrogen is by no means a characteristic of the wheats held in highest estimation either by the miller or the baker ; and that so far as both the baker and ...
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... percentage of nitrogen is more probably due to the enhanced formation of starch under the influence of high ripening temperatures , and that , comparing the grain grown from the same description of seed but on different soils , or in ...
... percentage of nitrogen is more probably due to the enhanced formation of starch under the influence of high ripening temperatures , and that , comparing the grain grown from the same description of seed but on different soils , or in ...
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... percentage of protein and the lower the percentage of starch . Doubtless the shorter the season of growth , the smaller the grain . It does not follow that strains may not be selected which will contain high per cents of protein and at ...
... percentage of protein and the lower the percentage of starch . Doubtless the shorter the season of growth , the smaller the grain . It does not follow that strains may not be selected which will contain high per cents of protein and at ...
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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?