The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat IndustryO. Judd, 1908 - 369 páginas |
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... car- bonate , sodium sulphate and sodium chlorid . Different varie- ties of wheat vary in their ability to resist the same toxic salt , as does also one variety in different salts . Effect on Yield and the Supply of Plant Food . - There ...
... car- bonate , sodium sulphate and sodium chlorid . Different varie- ties of wheat vary in their ability to resist the same toxic salt , as does also one variety in different salts . Effect on Yield and the Supply of Plant Food . - There ...
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... car weighs on an average about one - third of the gross weight of a loaded car . Twenty years ago 1,020 tons net weight was the best load of grain ... cars having a gross weight of 4,500 tons , have been hauled over the 194 THE BOOK OF WHEAT.
... car weighs on an average about one - third of the gross weight of a loaded car . Twenty years ago 1,020 tons net weight was the best load of grain ... cars having a gross weight of 4,500 tons , have been hauled over the 194 THE BOOK OF WHEAT.
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... cars can be hauled on the return trip . Even 70 cars in one train is too wearing on the engine to be profitable . The prime cost of moving a sixty - car grain train , that is , the cost at which a few extra trains could be run over the ...
... cars can be hauled on the return trip . Even 70 cars in one train is too wearing on the engine to be profitable . The prime cost of moving a sixty - car grain train , that is , the cost at which a few extra trains could be run over the ...
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... car , but in Oregon and Washington the wheat is more generally re - cleaned and then re - sacked , before it is loaded . Practically all export wheat from the Pacific coast is sacked . From the Atlantic and Gulf ports , wheat is gen ...
... car , but in Oregon and Washington the wheat is more generally re - cleaned and then re - sacked , before it is loaded . Practically all export wheat from the Pacific coast is sacked . From the Atlantic and Gulf ports , wheat is gen ...
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... cars , ships and warehouses . Storage of Wheat at the Farm . - The granary upon the farm should have an exposed location , and should be so constructed as to make the handling of grain as easy as possible . The principal things to be ...
... cars , ships and warehouses . Storage of Wheat at the Farm . - The granary upon the farm should have an exposed location , and should be so constructed as to make the handling of grain as easy as possible . The principal things to be ...
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Página 57 - Argentine Republic. February and March — Upper Egypt. India. April — Lower Egypt, India. Syria, Cyprus, Persia, Asia Minor, Mexico, Cuba. May — Texas. Algeria. Central Asia, China, Japan. Morocco. June — California, Oregon. Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas. Utah, Colorado, Missouri. Turkey, Greece. Italy. Spain, Portujral, south of France.
Página 352 - Agronomy, Cornell University. If you raise five acres of any kind of grain you cannot afford to be without this book. It is in every way the best book on the subject that has ever been written. It treats of the cultivation and improvement of every grain crop raised in America in a thoroughly practical and accurate manner.
Página 19 - This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.
Página 352 - The Cereals in America," by the same author, it treats of the cultivation and improvement of every one of the forage and fiber crops. With this book in hand, you have the latest and most up-to-date information available.
Página 352 - FD COBURN'S little book on Alfalfa a few years ago has been a profit revelation to thousands of farmers throughout the country, and the increasing demand for still more information on the subject has induced the author to prepare the present volume, which is by far the most authoritative, complete and valuable work on this forage crop published anywhere. It is printed on fine p;iper and illustrated with many full-page photographs that were taken with the especial view of their relation to the text....
Página 352 - By THOMAS F. HUNT, MS, D.Agri., Professor of Agronomy, Cornell University. If you raise five acres of any kind of grain you cannot afford to be without this book. It is in every way the best book on the subject that has ever been written. It treats of the cultivation and improvement of every grain crop raised in America in a thoroughly practical and accurate manner. The subject-matter includes a comprehensive and succinct treatise of wheat, maize, oats, barley, rye, rice, sorghum (kafir corn) and...
Página 57 - Columbia, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland, Central Russia. September and October — Scotland, Sweden, Norway, North of Russia. November — Peru, South Africa.
Página 123 - Chief of the Bureau of Soils in the United States Department of Agriculture...
Página 351 - A complete, practical work giving descriptions of the more important insects attacking vegetables of all kinds with simple and inexpensive remedies to check and destroy them, together with timely suggestions to prevent their recurrence. A ready reference book for truckers, marketgardeners, farmers as well as others who grow vegetables in...
Página 351 - As a rule, a book of this sort is dry and uninteresting, but in this case it reads like a novel. The author has put into it his individuality. The story of the properties of the soils, their improvement and management, as well as a discussion of the problems of crop growing and crop feeding, make this book equally valuable to the farmer, student and teacher. There are many illustrations of a practical character, each one suggesting some fundamental principle in soil management. 303 pages.