Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 8 doc
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 8 doc
... 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 ... successful one is as follows: for the first year,
corn heavily fertilized with stable manure; for the second year, sugar-beets; for the third year, oats or barley;
for the fourth year,...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 9 docx
... 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...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 12 docx
... 133
Balanced ration, 29 4-2 95
Barley, 21 5-2 17
Beans, 95, 98
Bee, 28 6-2 90
Beehive, anti-robbing entrance of, 289
Beet, 95, 96 sugar-, 21 8- 2 21
Beet sugar, 2 18
Beetle, 146, 1 48 cucumber, 102 potato, ... roots of, 27, 28 selection of seed, 66, 67, 68
Cotton, 18 0-1 88 resistant variety of, 132 Sea Island, 132, 182 short-stapled, 182
Cotton wilt, 142
Cotton-boll weevil...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 1 ppt
... COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL 173
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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 ... XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 2 pps
... 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...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 3 pptx
... 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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... CUSTOMARY WAY OF PRUNING A PEACH]
[Illustration: FIG. 78. TWO-YEAR-OLD TREE Cut off heel, h]
In pruning never leave a stump such as is shown in Fig. 78, h. Such a stump, having no source of
nourishment, ... 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,...
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 ....
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 ... 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...
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 7 pot
... eggs.
SECTION XXXIV. THE COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL
So far as known, the cotton-boll weevil, an insect which is a native of the tropics, crossed the Rio Grande
River into Texas in 189 1 and 189 2. It settled in the ... 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. Fo...
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