Elements of Agriculture: With Industrial LessonsD.C. Heath & Company, 1902 - 141 էջ |
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... Uncle Ben's to- morrow . I am glad , for if there is anywhere I like to go , it is to Uncle Ben's . You see , he lives on a fine farm ; he has cattle and horses and other stock , and I like to watch him feed them . " Then Aunt Ruth has ...
... Uncle Ben's to- morrow . I am glad , for if there is anywhere I like to go , it is to Uncle Ben's . You see , he lives on a fine farm ; he has cattle and horses and other stock , and I like to watch him feed them . " Then Aunt Ruth has ...
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... Uncle Ben is just as careful as Aunt Ruth . When he has harvested his hay , he always puts his mower in the shed , and oils the sickle well , so that it will not rust . He sets his plows near the door as he oils them and puts them in ...
... Uncle Ben is just as careful as Aunt Ruth . When he has harvested his hay , he always puts his mower in the shed , and oils the sickle well , so that it will not rust . He sets his plows near the door as he oils them and puts them in ...
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... Uncle Ben has bins for the grain , too , and sheds for the hay . Grain and hay are injured when exposed to the weather ; and by housing and shed- ding , enough is saved in a few years to more than pay for the bins and sheds . " When he ...
... Uncle Ben has bins for the grain , too , and sheds for the hay . Grain and hay are injured when exposed to the weather ; and by housing and shed- ding , enough is saved in a few years to more than pay for the bins and sheds . " When he ...
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... stream , where we often go to play . If the weather is fine , we sometimes take our lunch and eat it in a grove . It is always a treat to go to Uncle Ben's . " LESSON XII . FARM DAIRYING . I. " Uncle Ben 56 Elements of Agriculture .
... stream , where we often go to play . If the weather is fine , we sometimes take our lunch and eat it in a grove . It is always a treat to go to Uncle Ben's . " LESSON XII . FARM DAIRYING . I. " Uncle Ben 56 Elements of Agriculture .
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... Uncle Ben takes great interest in caring for his COWS . He says it pays better to keep a few cows and keep them well , than to poorly keep a large number . He has a warm shed for them and gives them plenty of nourishing food , and is ...
... Uncle Ben takes great interest in caring for his COWS . He says it pays better to keep a few cows and keep them well , than to poorly keep a large number . He has a warm shed for them and gives them plenty of nourishing food , and is ...
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Էջ 59 - These substances are sometimes present in the soil, but not in a form in which the plant can use them ; when thus present and unavailable, they may often be rendered available by proper cultivation or management of the soil. If they are not present in the soil, they must be supplied through fertilizers before the crop will grow well." LESSON XVI. STORY OF THE SOIL (Continued). I. "Soils must be in good 'physical' or 'mechanical ' condition, too,
Էջ 62 - Rains fall, and much of the water sinks into the earth — is absorbed by it ; then, in summer, as the water at the surface is changed to vapor (evaporated) by the sun, and carried away by the air and by the winds, the water that was absorbed, and that is held deeper down in the earth, rises toward the surface, and supplies the fields and the forests with moisture.
Էջ 61 - ... soil and far better supplied with food and moisture than could prevail in a cloddy soil. A cloddy or compact soil may have within it the elements necessary to plant growth, and may be rendered productive simply by being fined or mellowed. Such a soil may be mellowed by the use of machines; by under-drainage, by fall plowing, or by applying lime, ashes, sand, or other materials that tend to break up the lumps.
Էջ 67 - feed" in the moist soil in which they live, while the leaves gather nourishment from the refreshing breezes in which they wave. But the sunshine must warm the bosom of the earth, and must kiss the leaf and the flower before the lifeforce within them can do its work.