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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... 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 purposes ... 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...

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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 ... XII. CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTE...

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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. CHAPTER II 30 CHAPTER II THE ... plant-root. 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-hai...

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... size. CHAPTER IV 45 [Illustration: FIG. 65. A COMPLETED GRAFT Showing scion and stock from which it was made] After fitting the parts closely together, bind them with cotton yarn (see Fig. 65) that ... 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, a...

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... 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 ... will remember that formalin is the substance used to prevent grain smuts. Write to your state experiment station for a bulletin telling how to use formalin, as well as for information regarding...

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... COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL IN A SQUARE] The places best adapted for a winter home for the weevil are trash piles, rubbish, driftwood, rotten wood, weeds, moss on trees, etc. A further help, therefore, ... successful treatment for the curculio. For plums and peaches, spray first when the fruit is free from the calyx caps, or dried flower-buds. Repeat the spraying two weeks later. For late pe...

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... the cane is usually crushed for sugar or for molasses. [Illustration: FIG. 213. 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 ... $261; onions, $140; sugar cane, $55 ; small fruits, $110; hops, $1 75; vegetables, $78; tobacco, $80; sweet potatoes, $55 ; hemp, $53 ; potatoes, $78; sugar beets, $54 ; sorghum cane, $22; cot...

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... growth of mowing and pasture crops. Therefore to the grower of stock the management of grass crops is all-important. In planting either for a meadow or for a pasture, the farmer should mix different ... Many orchard-growers of the Northwest find vetch the best winter crop for the orchards as well as for the fields. =Soy, or Soja, Bean.= In China and Japan the soy bean is grown largely...

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