Elements of Agriculture: With Industrial LessonsD.C. Heath & Company, 1902 - 141 էջ |
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... root stock . The turnip , beet , radish , parsnip , etc. , are the enlarged roots of those plants . The celery plant has a fleshy leaf stock that is much relished by many people . 3. The potato supplies large quantities of starch , and ...
... root stock . The turnip , beet , radish , parsnip , etc. , are the enlarged roots of those plants . The celery plant has a fleshy leaf stock that is much relished by many people . 3. The potato supplies large quantities of starch , and ...
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... root or bulb . It is reported that I was once buried alive because I was found rooting in a lady's garden in my ... roots were cut by the worms I found and killed , the farmer often hunts me with his dog , and then I have to go deep ...
... root or bulb . It is reported that I was once buried alive because I was found rooting in a lady's garden in my ... roots were cut by the worms I found and killed , the farmer often hunts me with his dog , and then I have to go deep ...
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... roots , mellows the soil in the bottom of the hole , and carefully covers the roots with rich , loose earth . He sets the plants in straight rows , in such a way that they may be culti- vated in more than one direction . When setting ...
... roots , mellows the soil in the bottom of the hole , and carefully covers the roots with rich , loose earth . He sets the plants in straight rows , in such a way that they may be culti- vated in more than one direction . When setting ...
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... roots , and do much damage to orchards . Trees should be ex- amined two or three times a year and the borers removed . Birds destroy many worms and insects that infest orchards . Successful farmers and fruit growers do not depend ...
... roots , and do much damage to orchards . Trees should be ex- amined two or three times a year and the borers removed . Birds destroy many worms and insects that infest orchards . Successful farmers and fruit growers do not depend ...
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... root or grow well in soils too hard or compact . " Cloddy soils expose large areas of surface to the air and sun ... roots of plants than cloddy soils do . To illus- trate : A cubic foot of soil in the form of a cube has six faces ...
... root or grow well in soils too hard or compact . " Cloddy soils expose large areas of surface to the air and sun ... roots of plants than cloddy soils do . To illus- trate : A cubic foot of soil in the form of a cube has six faces ...
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animals Aunt Ruth bacteria beans better birds blades brown thrush called cell churn clean cloddy cloth coal oil collar color corn cotton cream crop cubes cultivation desirable variety dishes dust earth farmer father feet fertilizer flesh fowls fruit garden give grades grain Grandfather grass ground grow hardy harvested Heart of Oak henhouse Henry hoof horse hot water husk injure insect wings insects keep kind land leaf learned leaves LESSON limb lime mellow milk mother nest Oak Readers orchard Paris green Patterson phosphoric acid plants plowed polish poultry produce pulverized rice Robber flies roots sawflies says season seed silage slaked lime soil soon spray stalk stem stock food stove straw surface sweet tobacco trees tube or jar Uncle Uncle Ben vegetables warm wash weather wheat worms yellow-billed cuckoos
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Էջ 62 - ... one of the most important as well as one of the most legitimate sources of his power.
Էջ 120 - Book, 65 cts. The New Arithmetic. By 300 teachers. Little theory and much practice. An excellent review book. 65 cts. Walsh's Arithmetics. On the "spiral advancement
Էջ 120 - AtwOOd's Complete Graded Arithmetic. Presents a carefully graded course, to begin with the fourth year and continue through the eighth year. Part I, 30 cts.; Part II, 65 cts. Badlam'S Aids tO Number. Teacher's edition — First series, Nos. i to 10, 40 cts.; Second series, Nos. 10 to 20, 40 cts. Pupil's edition — First series, 25 cts.; Second series, 25 cts. Branson's Methods in Teaching Arithmetic. 15 cts. Hanus's Geometry in the Grammar Schools. An essay, with outline of work for the last three...
Էջ 120 - ... concepts are to be taught concretely, by much measuring, and by the making of models and diagrams by the pupils. 30 cts.
Էջ 47 - There should be a place for everything, and everything should be kept in its place when not in actual use.
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.