The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat IndustryO. Judd, 1908 - 369 páginas |
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... bread . The historical or evolutionary aspect is of universal significance . Those directly interested in the wheat industry , whether as growers , dealers , or millers , not only should be familiar with the technicalities of the phase ...
... bread . The historical or evolutionary aspect is of universal significance . Those directly interested in the wheat industry , whether as growers , dealers , or millers , not only should be familiar with the technicalities of the phase ...
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... bread was hardly known in Cuzco , Peru . The first wheat sown in the United States was by Gosnold in 1602 on the Elizabeth Islands off the southern coast of Massachusetts . It was first cultivated in Virginia in 1611 , and in New Nether ...
... bread was hardly known in Cuzco , Peru . The first wheat sown in the United States was by Gosnold in 1602 on the Elizabeth Islands off the southern coast of Massachusetts . It was first cultivated in Virginia in 1611 , and in New Nether ...
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... bread cereal . Bananas , rice , potatoes , and other soil products will sustain a greater population on a given unit of land than wheat will , but they are not so well adapted to a high standard of living . Herein lies the present and ...
... bread cereal . Bananas , rice , potatoes , and other soil products will sustain a greater population on a given unit of land than wheat will , but they are not so well adapted to a high standard of living . Herein lies the present and ...
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... bread and macaroni wheats ; and on the color of the seed , as red and white . As will later be shown , wheat adapts itself to new environments so that any one of these classes may be trans- formed into any other , and as wheat is raised ...
... bread and macaroni wheats ; and on the color of the seed , as red and white . As will later be shown , wheat adapts itself to new environments so that any one of these classes may be trans- formed into any other , and as wheat is raised ...
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... bread : Northern and central states of the plains , Canada , eastern and southern Russia , Hungary , Roumania and southern Argentina . 4. Wheats resistant to orange leaf rust : Southern Russia , Mediterranean and Black Sea regions , and ...
... bread : Northern and central states of the plains , Canada , eastern and southern Russia , Hungary , Roumania and southern Argentina . 4. Wheats resistant to orange leaf rust : Southern Russia , Mediterranean and Black Sea regions , and ...
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acre agriculture Amer American amount annual Argentina average baked bran bread bucket shop bushels bushels of wheat Canada cars cents per bushel century cereals Chicago chinch bug climate combined harvester commercial corn cost crop rotation cultivation durum wheat early elevators England Europe experiment station export factor farm farmers fertilizers flour germination gluten grower grown harvest header Hessian fly Hybrid important increased industry insects irrigation Kansas kernel land larvæ loss macaroni machine machinery manure methods miller milling Minnesota moisture nitrogen North Dakota operations Pacific coast phosphoric acid plow potash pounds practically price of wheat produced profitable railroads Red river valley Rept rotation Russia rust seed shipped smut soil sown speculative spores spring wheat storage straw supply threshing tion transportation United varieties weeds wheat crop wheat growing wheat plant winter wheat Yearbook U. S. Dept yield
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Página 77 - 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, Portugal, south of France. July — New England, New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Michigan, Illinois. Iowa, Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, Nebraska, upper Canada, Roumania, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary, south of Russia, Germany, Switzerland, south...
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 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 126 - The conclusion logically follows that on the average farm the great controlling factor in the yield of crops is not the amount of plant food in the soil, but is a physical factor the exact nature of which is yet to be determined.
Página 243 - ... made under the rules of some commercial body, by which the conditions as to the unit of amount, the quality, and the time of delivery are stereotyped, and only the determination of the total amount and the price is left open to the contracting parties."* Another important class of transactions are "cash...
Página 130 - It appears, further, that practically all soils contain sufficient plant food for good crop yield, that this supply will be indefinitely maintained, and that the actual yield of plants adapted to the soil depends mainly, under favorable climatic conditions, upon the cultural methods and suitable crop rotation.
Página 125 - ... diversified in appearance and quality ; yet, as it was stated in the Introductory Lecture, they consist of different proportions of the same elements ; which are in various states of chemical combination, or mechanical mixture. The substances which constitute soils have been already mentioned. They are certain compounds of the earths, silica, lime, alumina, magnesia...
Página 137 - Barnyard manure contains all the fertilizing elements required by plants in forms that insure plentiful crops and permanent fertility to the soil. It not only enriches the soil with the nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash, which it contains, but it also renders the stored-up materials of the soil more available, improves the mechanical condition of the soil, makes it warmer, and enables it to retain more moisture or to draw it up from below.
Página 74 - We have ploughed, we have sowed, We have reaped, we have mowed We have brought home every load, Hip, hip, hip, Harvest home ! and thus, sir, the whole assembly shout