Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1869 |
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... Root crops and hay , fed upon the farm , tend to increase the producing capacity and market value of land , and may properly be regarded as restorative crops . Corn , when fed to hogs and cattle on the farm , may perhaps be placed in ...
... Root crops and hay , fed upon the farm , tend to increase the producing capacity and market value of land , and may properly be regarded as restorative crops . Corn , when fed to hogs and cattle on the farm , may perhaps be placed in ...
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... roots and tubers . The straw and chaff of cereals also contain it in variable proportion . Perhaps nowhere is the selecting power of plants for special mineral salts better shown than in the distribution of potassa . Dr. Anderson ...
... roots and tubers . The straw and chaff of cereals also contain it in variable proportion . Perhaps nowhere is the selecting power of plants for special mineral salts better shown than in the distribution of potassa . Dr. Anderson ...
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... roots and shoots of grain , while the perfect beetle itself consumes the grain or seed of barley , wheat , and rye in Germany . Westwood , 1 , p . 61 , also mentions a similar fact ; it would therefore be well for some of our ...
... roots and shoots of grain , while the perfect beetle itself consumes the grain or seed of barley , wheat , and rye in Germany . Westwood , 1 , p . 61 , also mentions a similar fact ; it would therefore be well for some of our ...
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... roots of trees , where it feeds upon the wood ; the pupa is formed in large pods or cocoons made of the loose dust and dirt of the tree , and the perfect 51 . beetle appears from June to August , and feeds upon FOOD AND HABITS OF ...
... roots of trees , where it feeds upon the wood ; the pupa is formed in large pods or cocoons made of the loose dust and dirt of the tree , and the perfect 51 . beetle appears from June to August , and feeds upon FOOD AND HABITS OF ...
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... roots , and attain their full growth in autumn ; they then descend to pass the winter in a semi - torpid state , below the reach of frost . The pupa is formed in May , in a cell of an oval shape , under ground . The perfect beetle ...
... roots , and attain their full growth in autumn ; they then descend to pass the winter in a semi - torpid state , below the reach of frost . The pupa is formed in May , in a cell of an oval shape , under ground . The perfect beetle ...
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Página 234 - ... to the crop. The advantage, therefore, of large sets remains practically unimpaired. Sixthly : Weight for weight, cut sets produce as nearly as possible the same weight per acre as whole potatoes ; but for the reasons given above, the weight of the sets should not be reduced by subdivision. Seventhly : Smaller sets give a larger produce, in proportion to their weight, than the larger sets, Eighthly : When the intervals between the sets in the rows are diminished to less than a foot, the...
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