Truck-farming at the South: A Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern MarketsOrange Judd, 1883 - 270 páginas |
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... light , deep , sandy loam , with plenty of humus , or vegetable matter . Ex- perience has shown that , without this , crops will not yield as well in proportion to the quantity of manure applied . Locations in the immediate vicinity of ...
... light , deep , sandy loam , with plenty of humus , or vegetable matter . Ex- perience has shown that , without this , crops will not yield as well in proportion to the quantity of manure applied . Locations in the immediate vicinity of ...
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... light - colored sands is attribut- able to their conductive power . Half the crop depends sometimes upon the previous preparation of the land . Owing to the absence of a covering of snow and of suc- cessive freezings and thawings , fall ...
... light - colored sands is attribut- able to their conductive power . Half the crop depends sometimes upon the previous preparation of the land . Owing to the absence of a covering of snow and of suc- cessive freezings and thawings , fall ...
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... light , moisture , and even a part of the fertility of the soil . A war of extermination should be waged against weeds , although at times they become a necessary evil to the farmer who only cultivates the soil between the rows ...
... light , moisture , and even a part of the fertility of the soil . A war of extermination should be waged against weeds , although at times they become a necessary evil to the farmer who only cultivates the soil between the rows ...
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... light sandy soil from birch forest .. Rich lime soil from beech forest ... Sandy loam , forest soil .... Forest soil .. Meadow soil , red sandy loam . Average .. Ammonia in dry soil . 0.00077 per cent . 0.00087 " 6 66 0.00012 " 0.00080 ...
... light sandy soil from birch forest .. Rich lime soil from beech forest ... Sandy loam , forest soil .... Forest soil .. Meadow soil , red sandy loam . Average .. Ammonia in dry soil . 0.00077 per cent . 0.00087 " 6 66 0.00012 " 0.00080 ...
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... light soil , left bare after a late crop of sweet potatoes , shows a want of fertility the ensuing spring . Two crops of pea vines may be grown in a season ; but after an interval of three or four weeks . To turn under a heavy growth ...
... light soil , left bare after a late crop of sweet potatoes , shows a want of fertility the ensuing spring . Two crops of pea vines may be grown in a season ; but after an interval of three or four weeks . To turn under a heavy growth ...
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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