On the varieties, properties and classification of wheatH. Wright, 1836 - 122 էջ |
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... ; but it may be reasonable to say , that it is believed they will be a first step towards it , since any improvement in culture , which may enable a man to better his condition , is in B fact a pace gained towards the end in view .
... ; but it may be reasonable to say , that it is believed they will be a first step towards it , since any improvement in culture , which may enable a man to better his condition , is in B fact a pace gained towards the end in view .
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... enabled him to farm with profit . It is to the consideration of this general proposi- tion , that I now invite your attention , not to view it as a specimen of literary labour , with the eye of criticism , but as the mere statement of ...
... enabled him to farm with profit . It is to the consideration of this general proposi- tion , that I now invite your attention , not to view it as a specimen of literary labour , with the eye of criticism , but as the mere statement of ...
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... enable the farmer to pay the rent of his land , by sowing one variety , where , he would be unable to do so , by attempting to grow another of a seemingly better sort . If this end can be obtained , the object I have had in view will be ...
... enable the farmer to pay the rent of his land , by sowing one variety , where , he would be unable to do so , by attempting to grow another of a seemingly better sort . If this end can be obtained , the object I have had in view will be ...
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... enable him , not only to keep his crops from intercrossing by the intermixture of their farina , but as they would ripen in succession , en- able him also to bring in his crops in rotation , as each variety ripens , without being ...
... enable him , not only to keep his crops from intercrossing by the intermixture of their farina , but as they would ripen in succession , en- able him also to bring in his crops in rotation , as each variety ripens , without being ...
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... enable 66 us to account for some of the phenomena observa- " ble in the growth of it . I have observed that wheat " has a double root . The first , or seminal root , is pushed out at the same time with the 66 66 germ , which , together ...
... enable 66 us to account for some of the phenomena observa- " ble in the growth of it . I have observed that wheat " has a double root . The first , or seminal root , is pushed out at the same time with the 66 66 germ , which , together ...
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Agricultural appears ascertain ashes attention bearded wheat bran CHAPTER coarse colour Columella Committee common wheat corn coronal roots Couteur cultivated culture Dantzic degenerate downy duce eighteen pounds enable experimental farm experiments farinaceous farmer fifty five flour forty four grass grow grown growth habits Hence hoary hoeing hundred husbandry inches increase inferior intel Kelp labour land Le Couteur liable lime manure Minnith mode moist moisture nature number of grains observed period of flowering pipe of communication plant plough plump practice Professor La Gasca pure crop pure sorts quantity of meal quarter red wheat ripe ripened round sample Sandomir season seed selection shew single ear single grain Sir John Sinclair Smooth Chaffed soil and climate sorts of wheat sowing spring wheat suited superior thin-skinned three pounds tion Trit Triticum Hybridum twenty United Kingdom varieties of wheat Volhynia weeds wheat sown white bread white wheat winter wheats
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Էջ 78 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 121 - Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place ? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Էջ 88 - ... four digits in size. The immense height to which millet and sesamum will grow, although I have witnessed it myself, I know not how to mention. I am well aware that they who have not visited this country will deem whatever I may say on the subject a Violation of probability.
Էջ 5 - Yet none that I have read have observed, that two severall graines, perfect in each respect, did grow at any time in one eare; the which I saw this yeare, 1632, in an eare of White Wheat, which was found by my very good Friend Master John Goodyer, a man second to none in his industrie and searching of plants, nor in his judgement or knowledge of them. This eare of wheat was as large and faire as most are, and about the middle thereof grew there of foure perfect Oats in all respects...
Էջ 32 - Hence, it is obvious, that wheat sown superfi" cially, must be exposed to the severity of the frost, " from the shortness of the pipe of communication. " The plant in that situation, has no benefit from " its double root. On the contrary, when the grain " has been properly covered, the seminal and coronal '- roots are kept at a reasonable distance. The crown, " being well nourished during the winter, sends up " numerous stalks in the spring. On the tillering 32 " of the corn, the goodness of the...
Էջ 106 - Britain is, on the average of years, unequal to the consumption ; that the increased supply from Ireland does not cover the deficiency ; and that, in the present state of agriculture, the United Kingdom is, in years of ordinary production, partially dependent on the supply of wheat from foreign countries.
Էջ 48 - It is also destructive to insects, and to their eggs, which lie in the soil or turf; it forces the earthworms and wireworms from their lurking places to come to the surface and die ; particularly when laid on in a larger quantity than I have named, some farmers being in the habit of putting on...
Էջ 17 - Couteur insists strongly on this same fact. In his persevering and successful attempts to raise new varieties, he found that there was only one " secure mode to " ensure the growth of pure sorts, namely, to grow them from single " grains or from single ears, and to follow up the plan by afterwards " sowing only the produce of the most productive so as to form a
Էջ 31 - In the spring, when the crown has become sufficiently large, it detaches a number of strong fibres, which push themselves obliquely downwards. These are the coronal roots. A small pipe preserves the communication between them and the seminal roots. It makes an essential part of the plant, and is observed to be longer or shorter, according to the depth that the seed has been buried. It is remarkable, however, that the crown is always formed just within the surface. Its place is the same, whether the...