Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1883 - 270 páginas |
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... important items : nitrogen , potash , and phosphoric acid . These roots bring up from the subsoil plant food , and in decaying , tend to deepen the soil along their course . A crop of cow peas would probably have nearly as great a ...
... important items : nitrogen , potash , and phosphoric acid . These roots bring up from the subsoil plant food , and in decaying , tend to deepen the soil along their course . A crop of cow peas would probably have nearly as great a ...
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... important article of plant food , and most ex- pensive , when applied artificially , is most abundantly ab- sorbed by the soil in summer from the atmosphere , and being conveyed to it by rains and dews , and continually being taken up ...
... important article of plant food , and most ex- pensive , when applied artificially , is most abundantly ab- sorbed by the soil in summer from the atmosphere , and being conveyed to it by rains and dews , and continually being taken up ...
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... importance to our subject of green - manuring , that the drain water carried away more ammonia in the fall than in any other part of the year . It is therefore exactly at this season that the soil of the truck - farmer should be covered ...
... importance to our subject of green - manuring , that the drain water carried away more ammonia in the fall than in any other part of the year . It is therefore exactly at this season that the soil of the truck - farmer should be covered ...
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... importance . Guano from the Chincha Islands contained from fifteen to twenty per cent . of ammonia ; but ... important ingredients in fertilizers , by means of which any one may calculate the approximate agricultural value ...
... importance . Guano from the Chincha Islands contained from fifteen to twenty per cent . of ammonia ; but ... important ingredients in fertilizers , by means of which any one may calculate the approximate agricultural value ...
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... importance to Southern agricul- turists , that they should make no indiscriminate and wasteful use of commercial fertilizers , nor be swindled by the knavery of dishonest manipulators , I enumerate below the conclusions , as advice , of ...
... importance to Southern agricul- turists , that they should make no indiscriminate and wasteful use of commercial fertilizers , nor be swindled by the knavery of dishonest manipulators , I enumerate below the conclusions , as advice , of ...
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Acid Phosphate acre ammonia applied asparagus barrel beetles Bone Bruchus bushels cabbage carbonic acid cauliflower cents Charleston Chemical Chuck-will's-widow cold frames commence compost contain cotton seed covered cow pea crate crop cucumber cultivation cut-worms destroyed dollars drill dung early eggs farmer feet fermentation fertility Florida four frost fruit gardener germination green ground grow growers grown growth guano heat heavy hundred inches injury insects kainit land larva larvæ leaves lime mature melon moist moisture mulch nitrogen Northern markets onions packed Paris green pea vines Peruvian guano phosphoric acid plant food plow Plusia potash potato pounds produce quantity rain roots rows salts sandy Savannah season shipment soil soluble South sowing sown species sprouts squash stable manure stems strawberry sufficient sulphate superphosphate supply surface therm thousand tion tomato transplanting truck-farmer varieties vegetable matter warm weather weeds wind N. W. winter worm