The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat IndustryO. Judd, 1908 - 369 páginas |
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... seems to point to Mesopo- tamia , but this is largely a matter of opinion . While wheat has been found growing apparently wild , the doubt always seems to remain that it may have simply escaped from culti- vation . However , the belief ...
... seems to point to Mesopo- tamia , but this is largely a matter of opinion . While wheat has been found growing apparently wild , the doubt always seems to remain that it may have simply escaped from culti- vation . However , the belief ...
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... seems to have been cultivated in China 3,000 years B. C. , and was a chief crop in ancient Egypt and Palestine . The Bible first mentions wheat in Genesis , Chap . 30 , v . 14 . Biological Origin . - The botanist calls wheat a grass ...
... seems to have been cultivated in China 3,000 years B. C. , and was a chief crop in ancient Egypt and Palestine . The Bible first mentions wheat in Genesis , Chap . 30 , v . 14 . Biological Origin . - The botanist calls wheat a grass ...
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... seems to be the ten- dency of the civilized world to raise its standard of living . As the standard of living rises , wheat becomes a relatively more important part of human food . Rye and oats furnished the bread of the great body of ...
... seems to be the ten- dency of the civilized world to raise its standard of living . As the standard of living rises , wheat becomes a relatively more important part of human food . Rye and oats furnished the bread of the great body of ...
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... seems always to have been in a more or less chaotic state . This is especially true of the nomenclature of varieties . Nor is the fault to be laid particu- larly at the door of science . We have seen that wheat has been continually ...
... seems always to have been in a more or less chaotic state . This is especially true of the nomenclature of varieties . Nor is the fault to be laid particu- larly at the door of science . We have seen that wheat has been continually ...
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... seems to be greatest in durum wheats . Early spring and summer rains cause shallow rooting . In the absence of these rains in the far west , a deeper root system , capable of resisting superficial droughts , is developed . Poor soil ...
... seems to be greatest in durum wheats . Early spring and summer rains cause shallow rooting . In the absence of these rains in the far west , a deeper root system , capable of resisting superficial droughts , is developed . Poor soil ...
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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