The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat IndustryO. Judd, 1908 - 369 páginas |
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... wheat plant and the germ whorl of roots do not live through the winter in some varieties . The Flower of Wheat is constituted collectively of the or- gans of reproduction , together with the two inclosing chaffy с Organs of reproduction in ...
... wheat plant and the germ whorl of roots do not live through the winter in some varieties . The Flower of Wheat is constituted collectively of the or- gans of reproduction , together with the two inclosing chaffy с Organs of reproduction in ...
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... wheat grain are composed chiefly of cellulose , a woody , fibrous substance . The endosperm , the food ... Winter wheat , grain4 . 14.4 2.0 13.0 3.0 67.6 1.5 Canada common wheats ... wheat flour is composed may be THE WHEAT GRAIN AND PLANT 25.
... wheat grain are composed chiefly of cellulose , a woody , fibrous substance . The endosperm , the food ... Winter wheat , grain4 . 14.4 2.0 13.0 3.0 67.6 1.5 Canada common wheats ... wheat flour is composed may be THE WHEAT GRAIN AND PLANT 25.
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... wheats . His efforts have been to raise the standard of eastern varieties as to gluten , and he has largely succeeded . Winter Fife and Early Red Clawson were the two most popular of his first varieties . Early Genesee Giant , another ...
... wheats . His efforts have been to raise the standard of eastern varieties as to gluten , and he has largely succeeded . Winter Fife and Early Red Clawson were the two most popular of his first varieties . Early Genesee Giant , another ...
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... Winter Fife could not be grown in the Palouse country on ac- count of its shattering , though it yielded 60 to 65 bushels per acre . The Garton Brothers of England and William Farrer of New South Wales have extensively practiced ...
... Winter Fife could not be grown in the Palouse country on ac- count of its shattering , though it yielded 60 to 65 bushels per acre . The Garton Brothers of England and William Farrer of New South Wales have extensively practiced ...
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... wheats earlier each season . Winter wheat may be sown in spring and spring wheat in the fall . Only a very few plants will ripen seed , but when this is continuously sown , in three years the spring variety will be changed to the winter ...
... wheats earlier each season . Winter wheat may be sown in spring and spring wheat in the fall . Only a very few plants will ripen seed , but when this is continuously sown , in three years the spring variety will be changed to the winter ...
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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