The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... removed from what was the case when the term horticulture was first applied . 5. Number of Cultivated Species . - De Candolle has recog nized 198 species of cultivated plants native to the old world and forty - seven species of American ...
... removed from what was the case when the term horticulture was first applied . 5. Number of Cultivated Species . - De Candolle has recog nized 198 species of cultivated plants native to the old world and forty - seven species of American ...
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... removed from their original environment . Usually , however , it is unwise to attempt the growth of any crop which experience has shown to be illy adapted to the climate and soil of a given region : at least as a leading crop . 23 . The ...
... removed from their original environment . Usually , however , it is unwise to attempt the growth of any crop which experience has shown to be illy adapted to the climate and soil of a given region : at least as a leading crop . 23 . The ...
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... . In many cases the land is quite heavily fertilized with commercial fertilizers at the time the potatoes are planted . Ohio Bul . 110 ( 1899 ) , p . 68 . The wheat is sown after the removal of the potatoes 74 THE CEREALS IN AMERICA.
... . In many cases the land is quite heavily fertilized with commercial fertilizers at the time the potatoes are planted . Ohio Bul . 110 ( 1899 ) , p . 68 . The wheat is sown after the removal of the potatoes 74 THE CEREALS IN AMERICA.
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Thomas Forsyth Hunt. The wheat is sown after the removal of the potatoes without plowing . The residual effect of the fertilizers combined with the influence of the tillage given the potatoes usually results in increased wheat production ...
Thomas Forsyth Hunt. The wheat is sown after the removal of the potatoes without plowing . The residual effect of the fertilizers combined with the influence of the tillage given the potatoes usually results in increased wheat production ...
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... removed . This allows the soil to become compact before the seed is sown , prevents weeds from going to seed , and conserves the soil moisture by preventing the growth of vegetation , by the pulverization of the surface soil and by ...
... removed . This allows the soil to become compact before the seed is sown , prevents weeds from going to seed , and conserves the soil moisture by preventing the growth of vegetation , by the pulverization of the surface soil and by ...
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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?