Fruit Growing
Fruit-growing. Figs. 49s-505. No Branch Of American Agriculture Has Shown A Mere Complete Adaptation To Modern Demands And Conditions Than Fruit-growing; It Has Become A Large-area And Real Farm Enterprise ; The Field Prac Tices Have Been Completely Changed Within A Score Of Years ; The Products Have Come To ...
Glasshouses For Vegetable Crops
Glasshouses For Vegetable Crops For Many Years Gardeners Made Use Of Cold Frames And Hotbeds For The Starting Of Vegetable Plants In The Spring, And For The Forcing Of Lettuce And Radishes, To Get Them On The Market Before They Could Be Produced In The Open Air. A De Mand ...
Grain
Grain: Shipping, Grading And Storing. Figs. 511-514. Before The Middle Of The Last Century, Much The Larger Part Of The Grain Produced In The United States Was Hauled To The Mill By The Farmer, And Was Either Sold To The Miller Or Ground For A Toll Charge And The Product ...
Grape And Other Fruit
Grape And Other Fruit Juices Grape And Other Fruit Juices Have Become, Of Recent Years, Articles Of Commercial Importance; Their Manufacture Is Recognized As A Noteworthy Industry; And The Sale Of Fruit For This Purpose Is Of Sufficient Volume To Be An Influential Factor In Establishing The Market Price. Grape ...
Grasses
Grasses. Poaeem Or Graminem. Figs. 515-565. Annual Or Perennial Herbs With Characteristic Narrow Leaves And Round Or Flattened, Jointed, Usually Hollow Stems. In The Bamboos, The Stems Are Woody And May Reach The Height Of One Hun Dred Feet Or More. The Stems Or Culms Are Solid At The Nodes ...
Growing Seed Crops
Growing Seed Crops The Requisities For Growing Farm Seed Of The Best Quality Are, (1) A Field Free Of Weed Seeds Or Plants ; (2) The Use Of Pure Stock Seed Of Desira Ble Strain ; (3) So To Harvest The Crop As To Secure A Clean, Bright Sample Of ...
Haberlandts Figures Of Longevity
Haberlandt's Figures Of Longevity (quoted In Johnson's "how Crops Grow"). Percentage Of Seeds That Germinated In 1861 From The Years Experience And Experiment Have Determined Certain Seed Standards. The Following Standards Of Purity And Germination In Seeds Are Recommended By The Department Of Agriculture : " The Term Purity, The ...
Hemp
Hemp. Cannabis Satira, Linn. Urticacete. Figs. 566-571. [see Also Fiber Plants.] By J. N. Harper. An Annual Dimcious Plant, Reaching A Height Of Ten Feet And More, Grown For Its Long- Bast Fiber, And For Its Seeds. Staminate Flowers Drooping In Axil Lary Panicles, Hav Ing Five Sepals And Five ...
Home Preserving And Canning
Home Preserving And Canning Primitive Man Early Discovered That Dried Foods Are More Easily Transported From Place To Place And Have Better Keeping Qualities Than When Fresh; And That The Salt Of Sea-water And The Smoke Of The Camp-fire Have Further Preservative Influence. Generations Ago Housekeepers Found Out That Dense ...
Hops
Hops. Humulus Lupulus, Linn. Urlicarecc. Figs. 572-576. By Jared Van Wagenen, Jr. A Perennial Twining Herb Produ Cing Burs Or "hops" That Are Used In The Making Of Beer. It Has Long Shoots Often Reaching Twenty-five To Thirty Feet In A Season; Rough Hairy, The Stems Having Minute Prickles Pointing ...
In American Tropics
In American Tropics. Figs. 285, 286. The Rapidly Attained Popularity Of The Banana In The United States Offers A Striking Example Of A Recent Addition To Our Traditional List Of Foods. Thirty Years Ago The Banana Was Practi Cally Unknown Outside The Tropics, Yet To-day It Must Be Classed As ...
Industrial
Industrial Alcohol—denatured Alcohol The Term "denatured Alcohol" Is Applied To Alcohol Intended To Be Used For Industrial Purposes, Which Is So Treated As To Render It Unfit For Use As A Beverage. Pure Alcohol Is Used Extensively For Mixing With Other Beverages, Such As Whisky, Brandy And Rum. It Is ...
Insects And Diseases
Insects And Diseases The Ailments Of Plants Are Constantly Becoming More Numerous And The Knowledge Con Nected With Them More Complex, Owing To Dissemination Of The Parasites Into New Regions, The Increase Of Food Supply Due To New And More Extended Cultures, To Changes In Habits Of Parasites And Hosts ...
Kafir And Diirra
Kafir And Diirra. Andropogon Sorghum, Brot., Or Sorghum Vulgare, Pers. Graminete. Figs. 577-582. Strong- Growing Plants, Somewhat Resembling Corn, Used For Forage And For The Grain Which Is Borne In The Panicle Or Head. They Belong To The Same Species As Broom-corn And The Sweet Or Syrup Sorghums (not Sugar-cane), ...
Kale For
Kale For Brassica Olera Eta, Var. Acephala, Dc. Cruc(ferce. Figs. 583, 584. The Kales (or Borecoles) Are Leafy, Headless Forms Of The Cabbage Species. Some Of Them Are Grown In Vegetable Gardens For "greens." The Purple And Curled-leaved Kinds Are Very Handsome Plants. The Stock-feeding Or Forage Kinds Are Mostly ...
Kohlrabi For Stock Feeding
Kohlrabi For Stock-feeding. Brassica Oleracea. Var. Caulorapa. Crueiferce. Fig. 585. Kohlrabi Is Valuable For Stock-feeding, Not Only Because It Contains A Considerable Amount Of Nutri Ents, But Because These Nutrients Are In A Highly Palatable And Digestible Form. In The Latter Respect The Dry Matter Which It Contains Compares Favor ...
Legal Weights Of Agricultural
Legal Weights Of Agricultural Products "these Tables Show The Weights In Pounds Per Bushel Legally Established For Various Products By The Several States And (for Customs Purposes) By Congress. The Lack Of Agreement Between The Weights Thus Locally Established Is Greatly To Be Regretted; They Are Published Here Exactly As ...
Legumes
Legumes. (figs. 58g-592). The Leguminous Plants Have Lately Come Into Great Agricultural Prominence Because Of The Power That Some, Perhaps All, Of Them Have Of Fixing The Free Atmospheric Nitrogen Contained In The Soil, And Thereby Enriching The Land In This Valuable Element When They Decay, To The Great Advantage ...
Lespedeza
Lespedeza. Lespedeza Striata, Hook And Am. Leguminosce. (japan Clover, Japanese Clover, King-grass, Hoopcoop.) Pigs. 593, 594. An Annual Forage Plant With Stems Diffusely Branched, Decumbent, Or Erect When Crowded, Three Inches To Two Feet Or More In Height, Subpubescent; Leaves Three-foliolate, Leaflets Oblong-obovate, Peti Oles Very Short ; Peduncles Very ...
Life Pro Cesses And Environment
The Plant: Its Structure, Life-pro Cesses And Environment By Ir. J. V. Osterhout Plants Resemble Animals In Their Fundamental Life-processes And In Their Essential Requirements Of Food, Air, Water, Warmth And Light. But The Green Plants Possess An Important Advantage Over Animals Since They Are Able To Manufacture Food From ...
Lights
Lights Light Constitutes One Of The Most Important External Factors Affecting Vegetation, And Plays A Prmuinent Rile In Modifying The Configuration Of Plants. Photosynthesis, Or The Assimilation Of Car Bon, Is One Of The Most Fundamental Processes In The Vegetable Kingdom, And Is Dependent On Light. The Activity Of This ...
Loom
Loom. When Hauled From The Field Or Taken From The Sorting Benches The Potatoes Are Dumped Into The Bins. All Handling Should Be Done As Carefully As Possible. The Two Prime Requisites Of Success In Getting The Crop Into The House Are To Have The Potatoes Well Dried, Clean And ...
Lupine
Lupine (lupinus). Leguminosce. Fig. 595 A Large Group Of Leguminous Plants Mostly Con Fined To Western North America, A Few Species Occurring In Eastern United States, In The Southern States And In The Mediterranean Region, Some Of Them Valuable For Green-manuring And Forage. Upwards Of One Hundred Species Are Found ...
Meadows And Pastures
Meadows And Pastures. Figs. G59-675. [see, Also, Article On Grasses.] By S. Fraser. Meadow Is Land Devoted To Crops Which Are To Be Made Into Hay. The Word Is From The Anglo-saxon Rued =meadow. Frequently Land Which Is Too Low And Wet To Be Used For Other Purposes Is Re ...