Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 12 docx

... 112 Flower gardening, 10 8-1 21 Fly, 146, 150 Formalin, 135, 136, 138 Fowls, 28 2-2 86 Fruit mold, 126 , 142 Fruit rot, 122 Fruit tree, how to raise a, 7 6-8 7 Fultz, Abraham, 65 Fungi, 125 , 126 , 127 Garden, ... 107 Window box, 118 Window-garden, 11 9-1 21 Window-gardening, 119 Worn-out land, reclaiming of, 19, 244 Yeast, 127 , 128 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A...

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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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... 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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... 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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... 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 ....

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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 ... the potato. Of course it lessens the selling-price of the potatoes. If seed potatoes be treated to a bath of formalin just before they are planted, the formalin will kill the fungi on the potatoes...

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... 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...

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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 ... 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,...

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