Dyes And Dyeing
Dyes And Dyeing. Figs. Dyestuff Materials Are Derived From The Animal And Vegetable Kingdoms, And, In The Last Fifty Years, Those Made Synthetically From Products Obtained From Coal-tar. In 1856, W. H. Perkin, An English Chemist, Discovered The Production Of A Violet Dye When Experimenting With Aniline, A Body Found ...
Effect Of Electricity On
Effect Of Electricity On Plants The Relation That Exists Between Electrical Stimulation And Plant Growth Has Been A Subject Of Much Study. Covering Is Great Range Of Methods And Conditions, And Producing Varied And Conflicting Results ; But The Question Has Not Yet Had The Care Ful And Systematic Study ...
Evaporating As A Home
Evaporating As A Home Industry In Easreitx United States In The Past Twenty-five Years Great Progress Has I N Made In Each Of The Three Methods Of Preserving Fruit: Drying Or Evaporating, Canning Or Preserving, And Extracting The Juice. Canning For Market Has Largely Passed Into The Hands Of Firms ...
Farm Garden
Farm Garden. Figs. 379-391. The Farmer's Garden Should Be Simple, Ample And Abounding. There Is No Need That It Be Stinted Or Cramped. The Hand Labor Is Increased When The Garden Is Small And Enclosed, For The Spaces Are Narrow And The Rows Short, Preventing The Use Of A Horse. ...
Farm Management
Farm Management Farm Management Is The Application To Personal Farming Of All The Facts, Principles And Sciences Related To Agriculture. It Includes The Conducting Or Organizing Of The Farm, Not Only As Regards Present Success And Profits, But Also With Refer Ence To The Future Fertility Of The Land. It ...
Fiber Plants
Fiber Plants. Figs. 392-404. Fiber-producing Plants Are Second Only To Food Plants In Agricultural Importance. In Continental United States, However, Cotton, Hemp And Flax Are The Only Fiber Plants Cultivated Commercially, And, Aside From Cotton And Hemp, Most Of The Raw Fibers Used In Our Industries Are Imported. In An ...
Field Bean
Bean, Field. Phaseolus Rulgaris, Linn. Legu Minosx. Figs. 295-302. Annual Plants Of Bush Or Twining Habit, Of Un Known Habitat But Probably Native To The New World, Grown For The Edible Seeds. Leaves 3-foliolate, The Leaflets Stalked And Stipellate, Entire ; Flowers Papilion Aceous, Greenish, Whitish Or Tinted With Blue ...
Flax
Flax. Limn Usitatissimum, Linn. Linacem Linum (latin), Linon (greek), Lein (german), Lin (french); Llin (celtic). It Is From These Names That We Get Our Common Words, Linen, Lint, Linseed And Line. The Specific Latin Name Means "most Useful." [see Also Fiber Plants.] Figs. 405-410. By C. P. Bull. Flax Is ...
Forage Crops
Forage Crops. Forage Is Herbage Food, Whether Green Or Cured. The Forage Crops Are Grasses (whether Utilized In Meadows, Pastures Or Otherwise), All Coarse Natural Grazing Crops Such As Animals Are Likely To Find Provided In Nature, And Miscellaneous Roots And Vegetative Parts Grown Specifically For Feeding Purposes. They Are ...
Forests
Forests. Figs..12-i-4s7. If Agriculture Is The Raising Of Products From The Land, Then Forestry Is A Part Of Agriculture. In The Past We Have Considered The Forest To Be The Free And Uncontrollable Gift Of Nature, As Are The Mines, The Sea And The Air. We Have Also Been Obliged. ...