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If the water supply is insufficient and the soil parsimonious, this prodigious
consumption cannot be supplied, and dessication of organs takes place. This
begins in the oldest leaves, and nearly always the little leaves at the base of the
stem ...
If the water supply is insufficient and the soil parsimonious, this prodigious
consumption cannot be supplied, and dessication of organs takes place. This
begins in the oldest leaves, and nearly always the little leaves at the base of the
stem ...
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... for the most scientific farmer of England, even if the latter paid nothing for the
use of his land.1 If most of the members of a community are engaged in
agriculture, the supply of agricultural products is not apt to fall below the home
demand.
... for the most scientific farmer of England, even if the latter paid nothing for the
use of his land.1 If most of the members of a community are engaged in
agriculture, the supply of agricultural products is not apt to fall below the home
demand.
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early date, and then it was only another step to supply artificially the needed
water. Irrigation was a condition that was indispensable to the settlement of large
portions of western America, Australia and South Africa, In meeting these
problems ...
early date, and then it was only another step to supply artificially the needed
water. Irrigation was a condition that was indispensable to the settlement of large
portions of western America, Australia and South Africa, In meeting these
problems ...
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Among these are existing water supply, quantity required to grow crops, losses
from seepage and evaporation in distribution, character of the control over
streams already vested, and measures of administration requisite for an
equitable and ...
Among these are existing water supply, quantity required to grow crops, losses
from seepage and evaporation in distribution, character of the control over
streams already vested, and measures of administration requisite for an
equitable and ...
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... Annual cost 1.07 0.38 First cost of water rights 8.15 7.80 A rise in values would
be expected, instead of a fall, as good lands with water supply were scarce in
1899, and those lands were first irrigated which required least labor and capital.
... Annual cost 1.07 0.38 First cost of water rights 8.15 7.80 A rise in values would
be expected, instead of a fall, as good lands with water supply were scarce in
1899, and those lands were first irrigated which required least labor and capital.
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Página 77 - 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 374 - 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 36 - 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 374 - 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 374 - 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 374 - 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 77 - Columbia, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland, Central Russia. September and October — Scotland, Sweden, Norway, North of Russia. November — Peru, South Africa.
Página 143 - Chief of the Bureau of Soils in the United States Department of Agriculture...
Página 373 - 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 373 - 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.
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| Título | The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat Industry |
| Autor | Peter Tracy Dondlinger |
| Editor | Orange Judd, 1908 |
| Largo | 369 páginas |
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