Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 8 doc

... the cane is usually crushed for sugar or for molasses. [Illustration: FIG. 213. STALK OF SUGAR-CANE A-B, joints of cane showing roots; B-C, stem; C-D, leaves] The sugar-cane is a huge grass. The ... successful one is as follows: for the first year, corn heavily fertilized with stable manure; for the second year, sugar-beets; for the third year, oats or barley; for the fourth year,...

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... growth of mowing and pasture crops. Therefore to the grower of stock the management of grass crops is all-important. In planting either for a meadow or for a pasture, the farmer should mix different ... Many orchard-growers of the Northwest find vetch the best winter crop for the orchards as well as for the fields. =Soy, or Soja, Bean.= In China and Japan the soy bean is grown largely...

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... 133 Balanced ration, 29 4-2 95 Barley, 21 5-2 17 Beans, 95, 98 Bee, 28 6-2 90 Beehive, anti-robbing entrance of, 289 Beet, 95, 96 sugar-, 21 8- 2 21 Beet sugar, 2 18 Beetle, 146, 1 48 cucumber, 102 potato, ... roots of, 27, 28 selection of seed, 66, 67, 68 Cotton, 18 0-1 88 resistant variety of, 132 Sea Island, 132, 182 short-stapled, 182 Cotton wilt, 142 Cotton-boll weevil...

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... COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL 173 CHAPTER VII. 10 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER I CHAPTER ... XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER...

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... cross-pollination. As a rule cross-pollination makes seed that will produce a better plant than simple pollination would. Cross-pollination by hand is often used by plant-breeders when, for purposes ... some other plant, for example, cowpeas or buckwheat. Cowpeas are to be preferred, since they also enrich the soil by the nitrogen that the root-tubercles gather. CHAPTER III 42 CHAPTER...

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... CUSTOMARY WAY OF PRUNING A PEACH] [Illustration: FIG. 78. TWO-YEAR-OLD TREE Cut off heel, h] In pruning never leave a stump such as is shown in Fig. 78, h. Such a stump, having no source of nourishment, ... bud, and the bud-shoot grows three or four feet. One year later the shoot branches and the top begins to form; and in the fall of the following year the tree may be sold as a two-year-old,...

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... eggs. SECTION XXXIV. THE COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL So far as known, the cotton-boll weevil, an insect which is a native of the tropics, crossed the Rio Grande River into Texas in 189 1 and 189 2. It settled in the ... successful treatment for the curculio. For plums and peaches, spray first when the fruit is free from the calyx caps, or dried flower-buds. Repeat the spraying two weeks later. Fo...

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