Truck-farming at the South. A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern Markets. ... IllustratedOrange Judd Company, 1883 - 270 páginas |
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... less deficient in one or other constituent , and therefore be better adapted for one crop than another . Finding from experience or analysis , which of the principal con- stituents is absent in a soil , we may supply it by the ap ...
... less deficient in one or other constituent , and therefore be better adapted for one crop than another . Finding from experience or analysis , which of the principal con- stituents is absent in a soil , we may supply it by the ap ...
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... less ready - formed ammonia than was formerly held to be the case . Very light sandy soil from birch forest .. Rich lime soil from beech forest ... Sandy loam , forest soil .... Forest soil .. Meadow soil , red sandy loam . Average ...
... less ready - formed ammonia than was formerly held to be the case . Very light sandy soil from birch forest .. Rich lime soil from beech forest ... Sandy loam , forest soil .... Forest soil .. Meadow soil , red sandy loam . Average ...
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... less benefited by the mulch than those of a sandy character . Like the questions of deep and shallow plowing and deep and surface manuring , that of plowing under the green vines , or allowing them to dry and partly rot upon the surface ...
... less benefited by the mulch than those of a sandy character . Like the questions of deep and shallow plowing and deep and surface manuring , that of plowing under the green vines , or allowing them to dry and partly rot upon the surface ...
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... less of absorbents . It may be re- garded as a combination of the solid and fluid excrements of the different animals , and is of variable quality , owing to waste by leaching rains . If horses and mules alone are enclosed , its value ...
... less of absorbents . It may be re- garded as a combination of the solid and fluid excrements of the different animals , and is of variable quality , owing to waste by leaching rains . If horses and mules alone are enclosed , its value ...
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... less vegetable fibre than that of cattle , and may be classed with hog manure ; but the nitrogenous matter being more abundant , it is a heating manure when piled and moistened . If penned , one sheep can ma- nure ten and a half feet ...
... less vegetable fibre than that of cattle , and may be classed with hog manure ; but the nitrogenous matter being more abundant , it is a heating manure when piled and moistened . If penned , one sheep can ma- nure ten and a half feet ...
Términos y frases comunes
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