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... requirements:
1. Legumes for gathering nitrogen. 2. Money crops for cash income. 3. Cultivated crops for tillage and
weed-destruction. 4. Food crops for feeding live stock.
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CHAPTER II
THE ... From the root-hairs, foods are carried
to the inside of the root.
From this you can see how important it is for a plant to have fine, loose soil for its root-hairs; also ho...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 4 pps
... lines shown in Fig. 72, the buds below this point will
be forced to grow and make a tree like that shown in Fig. 73. The proper height of heading for different fruits
varies. For the apple tree ... bud, and the bud-shoot grows three or four feet. One year later the
shoot branches and the top begins to form; and in the fall of the following year the tree may be sold as a
two-year-old, alth...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 6 pps
... scab at the next harvest. Therefore before they are planted, seed
potatoes should be soaked in a weak solution of formalin for about two hours. One-half pint of formalin to
fifteen gallons of ... for future planting.
Try it if you have any smut.
[Illustration: FIG. 122 . A CROP FROM OATS TREATED WITH FORMALIN]
Fig. 122 illustrates what may be gained by using seeds treated to prevent smut....
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... 1. 62 | 5.79 | .16
Corn stover = 10 pounds | 5.95| .17 | 3 .24 | .07 Corn ensilage = 30 pounds | 6 .27 | .27 | 3.39 | .21 Cotton-seed
meal = 2 pounds | 1.83| .74 | .33 | .24 Total = 57 pounds |
27 .55| ... Which cow yielded the more butter-fat? What was the
money value of the butter produced by each if butter-fat is worth twenty-five cents a pound?
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CHAPTER XI
FARM DAIRY...
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... 10
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER ... PEANUTS 20 2
XL. SWEET POTATOES 20 4
XLI. WHITE, OR IRISH, POTATOES 20 6
XLII. OATS 20 9
XLIII. RYE 21 3
XLIV. BARLEY 21 5
XLV. SUGAR PLANTS 21 7
XLV...
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... some other plant, for example, cowpeas or buckwheat.
Cowpeas are to be preferred, since they also enrich the soil by the nitrogen that the root-tubercles gather.
CHAPTER III 42
CHAPTER III
THE ... cross-pollination. As a
rule cross-pollination makes seed that will produce a better plant than simple pollination would.
Cross-pollination by hand is often used by plant-breeders when, for...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 5 pptx
... be put.
The best manure for watermelons is a compost of stable manure and wood-mold from the forest. Pile the
manure and wood-mold in alternate layers for some time before the planting season. ... have cold-frames in
addition to the hotbed; these need not be more than two or three sashes.
=Cold-Frames.= A cold-frame is like the frame used for a hotbed, but it is placed on well-manured ....
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... rapidly;
therefore the food supply must be great to meet the needs of the insect.
[Illustration: FIG. 1 42. MOTH AND COCOON]
Some insects, the grasshopper for example, do not completely change their form. ... shown by the map on page 177.
[Illustration: FIG. 1 72. ADULT COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL Enlarged]
This weevil is a small gray or reddish-brown snout-beetle hardly over a quarter of an inch in...
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... the cane is usually crushed for sugar or for molasses.
[Illustration: FIG. 21 3. STALK OF SUGAR-CANE A-B, joints of cane showing roots; B-C, stem; C-D,
leaves]
The sugar-cane is a huge grass. The ... insure a never-ending fuel supply.
[Illustration: FIG. 22 2. WOOD LOT Before proper treatment]
The most common enemies of the forest crop are:
First, forest fires. The waste from forest fir...
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... root-knot are dangerous foes. A warm, moist, well-pulverized seed-bed should always be
provided. Few plants equal the cowpea in repaying careful preparation.
[Illustration: FIG. 23 4. COWPEAS]
CHAPTER ... neighbors,
the true grasses. For this reason some light perennial legume should always be added to grass seed.
[Illustration: FIG. 22 6. SINGLE PLANT OF GIANT MILLET]
It is not possibl...
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