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 ... CUTTING] CHAPTER IX 99 If this crop is grown for hay, the method of seeding and cultivating will differ somewhat from the method used when a seed crop is desired. When cowpeas are pl...

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... 29 0-2 92 growing, on the farm, 30 9- 3 13 Feeding animals, 290 reasons for, 290 , 292 Fertilization, 45 Fertilizers, 2 2-2 4 Field insects, 14 4-1 77 Figs, 51, 59 Fire-blight, 130 Flax, 22 6-2 29 Flea-beetle, ... 127, 128, 1 29, 131, 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, 2 89 Beet, 95 ,...

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... COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL 173 CHAPTER VII. 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 ... XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER...

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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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... 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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... desire from a one-year-old twig of the same variety. Wrap them in a clean, moist cloth until you are ready to use them. Just before using cut the bud from the scion, as shown in Fig. 69. This bud ... entrance of decay-fungi through some such wound or through a tiny crevice at such a crotch is the beginning of the end of many a fruitful tree. [Illustration: FIG. 79. THREE-YEAR-OLD TREE CUT BAC...

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... 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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... 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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... 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 1 891 and 1 892 . 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. F...

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