The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available SourceDoubleday, Page & Company, 1912 - 545 páginas |
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The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available Source Eugene H. Grubb,William Sumner Guilford Visualização integral - 1912 |
The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available Source Eugene H. Grubb,William Sumner Guilford Visualização integral - 1912 |
The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available Source Eugene H. Grubb,William Sumner Guilford Visualização integral - 1912 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acid acre acreage Agriculture alcohol alfalfa Aroostook Aroostook County average baked Battle Creek Sanitarium better blight boiled Bordeaux mixture Bulletin Burbank bushels cellar cent Colorado cooked cost covered cream cultivation Dalmeny deep digger digging disk districts ditch early potatoes Experiment Station farmer favorable feeding feet fertility field fungus furrow grain grass green ground growers growing potatoes grown growth harrow harvesting Idaho important inches increased industry infected Irish Iron Age irrigation land larvæ manufacture manure mash ment methods mixture moisture nitrogen Paris green phosphoric acid plant food planter plowing potash potato crop pounds practice production profit quantities roots rows sacks salt scab season seed soil Sopris Farm spraying spring sprouts starch storage stored supply surface sweet potatoes tatoes tile tion tons tubers Twin Falls Valley varieties of potatoes wart disease yield
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Página 518 - ... the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth century.
Página 195 - The most extensive co-operation has been with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the US Department of Agriculture.
Página 288 - If all of the hydrogen in example 2 were to unite with oxygen (in the proportion of two atoms of hydrogen to one atom of oxygen) to form water, what weight of water would be produced ? Ans.
Página 257 - Act approved February 2, 1903, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes...
Página 259 - Agriculture shall have authority to make such regulations and take such measures as he may deem proper to prevent the introduction or dissemination of the contagion of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of animals from a foreign country into the United States...
Página 259 - SEC. 3. That any person, company, or corporation knowingly violating the provisions of this Act or the orders or regulations made in pursuance thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Página 538 - What would be the effect upon the farming interest to push the soil up to something near its full capacity? Unquestionably it will take more labor to produce fifty bushels from an acre than it will to produce ten bushels from the same acre; but will it take more labor to produce fifty bushels from one acre than from five? Unquestionably thorough cultivation will require more labor to the acre; but will it require more to the bushel?
Página 528 - For instance, potatoes as purchased consist of one-fifth and rice of seveneighths nutritive material. The first inference is that rice is more than four times as nutritious as potatoes. In one sense this is true — that is to say, a pound of uncooked rice contains more than four times as much nutritive material as a pound of raw potatoes. But if we take about...
Página 245 - drawing " the sets it is a good plan to have at hand a large pail or a tub containing water to which there has been added a quantity of clay and cow manure which has been stirred until it forms a thin slime. As the plants are pulled from the bed they are taken in small bunches and their roots dipped into this mixture. This 324 process, termed
Página 539 - And this, again, conforms to what must occur in a world less inclined to wars, and more devoted to the arts of peace, than heretofore. Population must increase rapidly, more rapidly than in former times — and ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community whose every member possesses this art, can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms. Such community will be alike independent of crowned kings,...