The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat IndustryO. Judd, 1908 - 369 páginas |
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... grown is of the winter variety , which is largely grown over southern Europe and on the British Isles . Spring wheat was once more generally called summer wheat , and winter wheat is often also called fall wheat . Carleton , on a ...
... grown is of the winter variety , which is largely grown over southern Europe and on the British Isles . Spring wheat was once more generally called summer wheat , and winter wheat is often also called fall wheat . Carleton , on a ...
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... grown varieties of wheat in the United States are Fultz for soft winter , Turkey Red for hard winter , Fife and Blue Stem for hard spring , and Kubanka for durum wheat . DESCRIPTION AND GROWTH . Roots . The first root appearing is ...
... grown varieties of wheat in the United States are Fultz for soft winter , Turkey Red for hard winter , Fife and Blue Stem for hard spring , and Kubanka for durum wheat . DESCRIPTION AND GROWTH . Roots . The first root appearing is ...
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... grown in the N. W. Terrs . Church , Food Grains of India , p . 95 . An average from Dak . Stations , U. S. Dept. Agr . , Farm Bul . 139 , p . 11 . Rept . N. D. Exp . Sta . , 1904 , p . 33 The substances of which wheat flour is composed ...
... grown in the N. W. Terrs . Church , Food Grains of India , p . 95 . An average from Dak . Stations , U. S. Dept. Agr . , Farm Bul . 139 , p . 11 . Rept . N. D. Exp . Sta . , 1904 , p . 33 The substances of which wheat flour is composed ...
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... grown on unmanured ground during 20 years . The average results are given in the table below . " Grain Straw Ferric oxide 0.645 0.69 Lime 3.175 5.075 Magnesia 10.48 1.525 Potash 33.345 15.355 Soda 0.18 0.265 Phosphoric anhydride ( PO ) ...
... grown on unmanured ground during 20 years . The average results are given in the table below . " Grain Straw Ferric oxide 0.645 0.69 Lime 3.175 5.075 Magnesia 10.48 1.525 Potash 33.345 15.355 Soda 0.18 0.265 Phosphoric anhydride ( PO ) ...
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... grown from the heavy wheat and light from the light wheat , the difference in yield in 3 or 4 years was small . After the first year of the separation , the light seed gave much the greater amount of proteids per acre . Lyon points out ...
... grown from the heavy wheat and light from the light wheat , the difference in yield in 3 or 4 years was small . After the first year of the separation , the light seed gave much the greater amount of proteids per acre . Lyon points out ...
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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