Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 11 pps
Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 11 pps
... 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 DAIRYING
SECTION ... animal for one day. If the
animal is to have a proper ration, we must bear in mind what the animal needs in order to be best nourished.
To get material for muscle, for blood, for milk, a...
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.
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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 4 pps
... 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, although ... to prune is either in the winter or before the buds start in the spring. Winter pruning tends to
favor wood-production, while summer pruning lessens wood-production and induces fruitage.
Each ....
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 1 ppt
... 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...
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.
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CHAPTER...
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 7 pot
... 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 peaches spray ... the larva emerges, it bores into the bark and remains there for months,
passing through the pupa stage before it comes out to lay eggs for another generation.
[Illustration: FIG. 16...
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...
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