The Cereal in America ...O. Judd Company, 1904 - 421 páginas |
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... tested , and fur- nishes a very important reason why little progress has been made in the improvement of field crops . Take timothy , for example . A casual inspection of a field of timothy will show that there is a great variation in ...
... tested , and fur- nishes a very important reason why little progress has been made in the improvement of field crops . Take timothy , for example . A casual inspection of a field of timothy will show that there is a great variation in ...
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... tested at the stations have 1 Manufacture of Semolina and Macaroni . U. S. Dept. of Agr . , Bu . of Pl . Ind Bul . 20 . 2 Neb . Bul . 78 , p . 4 . come principally from Russia and Algeria . The former seem BOTANICAL RELATIONS OF WHEAT 53.
... tested at the stations have 1 Manufacture of Semolina and Macaroni . U. S. Dept. of Agr . , Bu . of Pl . Ind Bul . 20 . 2 Neb . Bul . 78 , p . 4 . come principally from Russia and Algeria . The former seem BOTANICAL RELATIONS OF WHEAT 53.
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... tests covering a decade or more by several experiment stations show that certain varieties are on an average of years decidedly superior to other varieties in the given locality and for the particular soil and methods of culture . Hays ...
... tests covering a decade or more by several experiment stations show that certain varieties are on an average of years decidedly superior to other varieties in the given locality and for the particular soil and methods of culture . Hays ...
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... tests is given elsewhere . ( 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 ) 89. Variety Names . - One reason which makes the compara- tive merits of varieties so confusing is that many names are given to the same variety . It is not unusual for old and well ...
... tests is given elsewhere . ( 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 ) 89. Variety Names . - One reason which makes the compara- tive merits of varieties so confusing is that many names are given to the same variety . It is not unusual for old and well ...
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... tested , although a difference of sixteen days has been noted . This station is confirmed in the belief that seasons which produce early maturity give crops of better quality.1 Hays found anong 400 plants of a single spring variety that ...
... tested , although a difference of sixteen days has been noted . This station is confirmed in the belief that seasons which produce early maturity give crops of better quality.1 Hays found anong 400 plants of a single spring variety that ...
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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?