Elements of Agriculture: With Industrial LessonsD.C. Heath & Company, 1902 - 141 էջ |
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... RICE . 1. Varieties . Rice Soils . Preparation 2. Irrigation of the Crop 3. Harvesting and Milling . · LESSON XXII . TOBACCO . 1. Tobacco Culture 2. Curing the Product 3. Notes . Varieties 1. Illustrations 2. Habits 3. Conclusion ...
... RICE . 1. Varieties . Rice Soils . Preparation 2. Irrigation of the Crop 3. Harvesting and Milling . · LESSON XXII . TOBACCO . 1. Tobacco Culture 2. Curing the Product 3. Notes . Varieties 1. Illustrations 2. Habits 3. Conclusion ...
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... rice , are co - extensive with civilization . The world is practically fed and clothed by these great staples . Competition in their production is sharp . All that men have learned , and all that remains to be discovered about these ...
... rice , are co - extensive with civilization . The world is practically fed and clothed by these great staples . Competition in their production is sharp . All that men have learned , and all that remains to be discovered about these ...
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... pounds per measured bushel . 5. Hayne's Bluestem.- Long berry ; hard ; chaff covered with minute hairs , which has led to the common term , " velvet chaff wheat . " LESSON XXI . RICE . I. Rice is probably the 126 Elements of Agriculture .
... pounds per measured bushel . 5. Hayne's Bluestem.- Long berry ; hard ; chaff covered with minute hairs , which has led to the common term , " velvet chaff wheat . " LESSON XXI . RICE . I. Rice is probably the 126 Elements of Agriculture .
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... rice is the variety now chiefly cultivated in this country . Most varieties grow best on lowland , yet a few kinds are grown on upland . The best rice land is a clay loam having a heavy or stiff subsoil or under clay soil . Average rice ...
... rice is the variety now chiefly cultivated in this country . Most varieties grow best on lowland , yet a few kinds are grown on upland . The best rice land is a clay loam having a heavy or stiff subsoil or under clay soil . Average rice ...
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... rice is always carefully selected with special effort to securing uniformity in the size of the grains . Great pains are also taken to select seed that is free from red rice , from grass , and other foreign seed . From one to three ...
... rice is always carefully selected with special effort to securing uniformity in the size of the grains . Great pains are also taken to select seed that is free from red rice , from grass , and other foreign seed . From one to three ...
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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.