Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1883 - 270 páginas |
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... leaves of plants growing upon it , and growth is retarded . PREPARING THE SOIL . Efficient drainage being provided , the land should be broken up and pulverized as deeply as possible . A mass of sticky clay will absorb a slight amount ...
... leaves of plants growing upon it , and growth is retarded . PREPARING THE SOIL . Efficient drainage being provided , the land should be broken up and pulverized as deeply as possible . A mass of sticky clay will absorb a slight amount ...
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... leaves , at the expense of the roots and of a general healthy con- dition . The operations of thinning and hand - weeding are performed in connection with hoeing , to admit a free circulation of air around the remaining plants , and the ...
... leaves , at the expense of the roots and of a general healthy con- dition . The operations of thinning and hand - weeding are performed in connection with hoeing , to admit a free circulation of air around the remaining plants , and the ...
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... leaves from the woods , slops from the kitchen and wash - house , with the dung of those domestic animals which does not readily heat , as that of neat cattle and swine , in short , everything available that will supply plant food may ...
... leaves from the woods , slops from the kitchen and wash - house , with the dung of those domestic animals which does not readily heat , as that of neat cattle and swine , in short , everything available that will supply plant food may ...
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... leaves from surrounding forest trees , have decayed on the same low , swampy soil , the vegetable mat- ter increases so rapidly that , with the exception of that supplied by the decaying mass , very little mineral mat- ter is mixed with ...
... leaves from surrounding forest trees , have decayed on the same low , swampy soil , the vegetable mat- ter increases so rapidly that , with the exception of that supplied by the decaying mass , very little mineral mat- ter is mixed with ...
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... leaves ; and the experiments of Lawes and Gilbert have pointed out that it aids leguminous plants , like clover , in assimilat- ing nitrogen , which they contain so largely . It results in soils from the disintegration of minerals , and ...
... leaves ; and the experiments of Lawes and Gilbert have pointed out that it aids leguminous plants , like clover , in assimilat- ing nitrogen , which they contain so largely . It results in soils from the disintegration of minerals , and ...
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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