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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 84 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 41677 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 good 23 New 21 illustration 20 year 17 Mr. 17 England 16 time 16 plant 15 soil 15 United 14 water 14 crop 14 States 12 man 11 seed 11 great 11 York 11 State 10 work 10 land 10 farm 10 day 8 manure 7 tree 7 american 7 Illinois 6 place 6 farmer 6 clover 6 acre 6 John 6 January 5 house 5 free 5 country 5 West 5 St. 5 PRAIRIE 5 London 5 FARMER 5 Chicago 5 Agriculture 4 root 4 pound 4 plow 4 little 4 life 4 figure 4 chapter 4 bee Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 8840 soil 6916 year 6309 land 6272 time 6198 water 5964 plant 5150 crop 4547 man 4351 farm 3926 farmer 3925 day 3896 tree 3680 work 3656 country 3603 manure 3552 acre 3503 part 3378 seed 2913 way 2778 place 2678 foot 2657 field 2638 use 2610 food 2458 people 2442 life 2432 ground 2431 condition 2370 house 2302 thing 2259 fruit 2230 root 2149 pound 2132 corn 2130 case 2108 inch 1995 matter 1986 cent 1966 price 1951 growth 1920 value 1916 power 1914 illustration 1891 one 1887 horse 1850 state 1825 home 1817 animal 1816 kind 1789 wheat Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 24157 _ 2664 | 1865 State 1708 States 1496 New 1215 United 1122 England 966 Mr. 760 Government 724 York 701 . 700 guano 630 Congress 623 Agriculture 619 Conservation 594 C. 538 Fig 514 Washington 510 Agricultural 507 c. 473 Virginia 473 FIG 462 President 455 West 436 J. 430 American 428 H. 421 John 417 W. 416 South 414 America 412 Department 404 National 392 Mr 389 Association 387 County 387 California 384 S. 371 March 371 June 370 Commission 361 Illinois 352 E. 348 Chicago 344 USNM 339 B. 330 Report 325 A. 324 D. 317 Society Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 34321 it 13345 i 12826 they 11180 we 9342 you 8667 he 7916 them 2605 she 2225 him 2029 us 2017 me 842 her 771 themselves 670 itself 616 himself 558 one 247 myself 227 ourselves 165 herself 102 yourself 58 mine 48 ours 45 yours 39 thee 25 vp 24 theirs 18 his 17 ''em 16 ''s 10 oneself 6 hers 5 em 4 ye 3 yourselves 3 guano 3 delf 2 vnto 2 thyself 2 outgo 2 hisself 2 ay 2 answer.--we 1 £1 1 ~they 1 winesap.--this 1 wigwam 1 why?--they 1 water-- 1 washington"--i 1 vermont_--6 Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 134273 be 30896 have 10923 do 10191 make 4941 use 4872 take 4871 give 4604 grow 3867 find 3847 say 3789 see 3379 come 3265 keep 3165 know 3091 get 2977 go 2163 put 2140 follow 2106 become 2075 show 2027 produce 1934 call 1929 leave 1899 cut 1764 contain 1746 work 1731 plant 1724 bring 1702 require 1657 need 1546 think 1529 apply 1526 carry 1525 seem 1498 hold 1482 increase 1443 let 1438 pay 1416 set 1392 begin 1315 sell 1312 feed 1284 raise 1280 cover 1271 provide 1229 live 1219 look 1200 turn 1189 add 1164 place Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3473 most 390 well 283 least 4 richest 3 near 3 highest 3 hard 3 easiest 2 soon 2 fast 1 worst 1 warmest 1 swiftest 1 surest 1 opprest 1 narrowest 1 lowest 1 lightest 1 lest 1 least,--either 1 heaviest 1 happiest 1 greatest 1 goest 1 finest 1 fairest 1 f----first 1 early 1 close 1 -the Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.archive.org 1 www.pgdpcanada.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.pgdpcanada.net 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39483/39483-h/39483-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39483/39483-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/3/2/27327/27327-h/27327-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/3/2/27327/27327-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/notesonagricultu00bevarich 1 http://www.archive.org/details/cottageeconomyco00cobb Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 pg@aldarondo.net 1 davidsch@earthlink.net Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 49 _ see _ 23 soil is not 22 water is not 21 land is not 21 people do not 19 plants do not 17 _ do _ 17 soil is dry 15 _ is _ 15 water does not 14 plants are not 14 work is not 13 farmers do not 13 manure is not 12 soil does not 11 _ do n''t 11 soil is too 11 soil is very 10 _ is generally 10 land is too 10 soil is best 9 trees are not 8 crops are not 8 plant is not 8 soil is heavy 8 time goes on 7 _ do not 7 _ have _ 7 crop is not 7 farmer does not 7 land does not 7 plants are well 7 seed does not 7 seed is usually 7 soil is sandy 7 soils are not 6 _ is not 6 country does not 6 farm is not 6 men are not 6 plant grows well 6 soil is deficient 6 soil is good 6 soil is suitable 6 tree does not 6 trees do not 6 water is available 5 _ did _ 5 _ is very 5 _ use _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 water is not available 3 water is not good 2 _ did not _ 2 acre are not uncommon 2 crop is not large 2 farmer is not likely 2 land is not thoroughly 2 manure is not available 2 manure is not so 2 manure is not suitable 2 plant is not too 2 plants are not equally 2 soil is not fertile 2 soil is not too 2 work is not only 1 _ are no longer 1 _ are not good 1 _ gave no exemption 1 _ had not _ 1 _ had not enough 1 _ having not time 1 _ is no part 1 _ is not good 1 _ is not now 1 _ is not properly 1 _ is not so 1 _ is not sufficient 1 acre are not sufficient 1 acre is not large 1 acres were not valuable 1 countries is not only 1 countries were not long 1 country are not easily 1 country are not obtainable 1 country does not yet 1 country is no bar 1 country is not enough 1 country is not only 1 country is not superior 1 country is not yet 1 country was not level 1 crop is not necessarily 1 crop is not very 1 crop needs no argument 1 crop was not actually 1 crops are not alike 1 crops are not always 1 crops are not dependent 1 crops are not desirable 1 crops is not infrequently A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 23682 author = Agee, Alva title = Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement date = keywords = chapter; clover; crop; fertilizer; good; illustration; land; lime; manure; plant; pound; seed; soil summary = crops, methods, and fertilizers that favor the soil. The manure and fertilizer were nearly inactive in the acid soil. the surface soil, can restore clover to the crop-rotation on much land. plant life, the seeding and the use of commercial fertilizers should young clover plants than do the oat crop which shades the soil densely of a good clover crop to the soil in terms of money. Good Soil Conditions.--When the grasses and clovers desired for a sod the soil as a good crop of red clover. plant-food as the roots and first crop of medium red clover that makes If the full fertilizing value is wanted for the soil, the crop should 1. Greater seed production in case of fertile soils. plant-food, returning to the soil four fifths of all the fertility soil is high, none of these crops may need nitrogen in the fertilizer. id = 27274 author = Aikman, Charles Morton title = Manures and the principles of manuring date = keywords = Agricultural; Appendix; CHAPTER; Gilbert; Island; Lawes; Liebig; NOTE; Nitrogen; Potash; Professor; Rothamsted; Sir; acid; crop; experiment; manure; peruvian; phosphate; plant; soil summary = free nitrogen by the plant, or within the soil, takes place, if at all, combined nitrogen present in soils and manures was an important source applying nitrogen to the soil as a manure. plants can absorb nitrogen in certain organic forms and as ammonia cent of the nitrogen absorbed by green-leaved plants from the soil is soils contain of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash. natural sources of the three important soil constituents, nitrogen, _Influence of Manures in increasing Soil-nitrogen._ _Influence of Manures in increasing Soil-nitrogen._ NITROGEN AS NITRATES IN WHEAT-SOILS VARIOUSLY MANURED, OCTOBER 1881, NITROGEN AS NITRATES IN BARLEY-SOILS VARIOUSLY MANURED, MARCH 1892, certain other manures, more valuable for nitrogen and phosphoric acid, asked, Are the nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash in farmyard manure Guano derives its value as a manure from the nitrogen, phosphates, and Guano must be regarded as a nitrogenous and phosphatic manure, as the id = 59381 author = Anonymous title = Simple Plumbing Repairs for the Home and Farmstead date = keywords = pipe; repair; water summary = REPAIRING WATER FAUCETS AND VALVES REPAIRING WATER FAUCETS AND VALVES REPAIRING WATER FAUCETS AND VALVES shut off the water at the shutoff valve nearest the particular faucet. valves are usually provided on the water closet supply line, on the (2) the valve is designed to drain the water from the hydrant when the down, closing the valve and stopping the flow of water. REPAIRING LEAKS IN PIPES AND TANKS REPAIRING LEAKS IN PIPES AND TANKS REPAIRING LEAKS IN PIPES AND TANKS Occasionally waters are encountered that corrode metal pipe and tubing. In cold weather, water may freeze in underground pipes laid above the When thawing pipe with a blowtorch, hot water, or similar methods, open [Illustration: _Figure 7._--Water closet (toilet) flush tank.] Disconnect the water pipes to the tank (see fig. Install the tank and connect the water pipes to it. _Burst pipe or tank._--Immediately cut off the flow of water by closing id = 59599 author = Ashby, Wallace title = Farmhouse Plans date = keywords = FLOOR; HOUSE; complete; illustration; plan summary = provide needed working area, storage space, and living and sleeping The cost per square foot of floor area of two-story frame houses was second addition will complete the house with a living room and front Floor areas: Superstructure, original house 660 square feet; completed The first-floor and cellar plans of house 6534 are almost the same as the A work-porch addition beside the kitchen and living room, between the Floor areas: Superstructure, original house, 380 square feet; with Floor areas: Superstructure, original house, 380 square feet; with Floor areas: Superstructure, original house, 380 square feet; with Floor areas: Superstructure, original house, 380 square feet; with Floor areas: Superstructure, original house, 380 square feet; with Floor areas: Superstructure, original house, 380 square feet; with Floor areas: Superstructure, original house, 380 square feet; with [Illustration: FLOOR PLAN AND COMPLETED HOUSE] [Illustration: FLOOR PLAN AND COMPLETED HOUSE] [Illustration: FLOOR PLAN AND COMPLETED HOUSE] id = 33178 author = Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde) title = The Holy Earth date = keywords = God; earth; farmer; forest; good; great; land; life; man; people; public; thing; time; way; work summary = meal of plain and wholesome food, the desire to do a good day''s work and that a very distinct form of society is developing in the great farming the man next the earth shall lead a fair and simple life; for in riotous place at the use of the people a kind of education that shall quicken The question then arises whether lands and other natural resources shall morals I mean the results that arise from a right use of the earth We need the great example of persons who live separately on their lands, political life possible; the setting off of a man''s farm into fields, reader who has formed a habit of observing men on day work and public A useful contact with the earth places man not as superior to nature but we shall need, in days to come, a group or a large class of persons, who id = 5992 author = Barker, Lady (Mary Anne) title = Station Amusements in New Zealand date = keywords = England; F----; Helen; Jack; Kitty; Mr.; New; Pepper; U----; Zealand; day; good; hill; horse; like; little; long; look; man; run; time; way summary = every-day life in New Zealand, published by the author three years Imagine, then, a beautiful day in our early New Zealand autumn. cold, dry and wet extremes, to make a true New Zealand day. served out at shearing time and so on; but in the old days all the hard Hot as the day had been, the night air felt chill, and a heavy dew from my house where I am sure of a good day''s skating any time between to this run and look round it, and if I find it anything like so good as every day, for at that time of year an hour''s change in the wind might poor little thing will only die all the same in a day or two;" and then _who_ could turn away from a little helpless thing like that, who than ten days, and had returned to our own pretty little home up the id = 6104 author = Barker, Lady (Mary Anne) title = Station Life in New Zealand date = keywords = England; F----; Helen; Melbourne; Mr.; New; Sunday; U----; Zealand; christchurch; day; english; good; great; hill; house; like; little; look; time summary = fresh-water ones came a long distance by rail from the river Murray, but As soon as we reached a pretty sheltered spot half-way up the hill among I must end my long letter by telling you a little story of my own our kind friends here wish, and long before the little house in the the house, carrying our little treasure by turns: but all our care was no such consequence follow a good wetting; the houses are so little real ride brought us to a charming little station, called by the pretty looked quite a large place from the great extent of ground it appeared For a week beforehand the house smelt all day long like a baker''s shop the act of killing a new-born lamb a little way from the house; the banks, about a mile from the house, the water came up to the horses'' id = 32392 author = Bevan, William title = Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products date = keywords = Agricultural; Athalassa; BULLETIN; Cyprus; Department; Egypt; England; Government; Greek; IMPERIAL; INSTITUTE; Island; Paphos; cypriot; seed; year summary = which large numbers of trees, plants and seeds are issued. trees and other plants and seeds are annually distributed at low rates, Good work has been done of late years in the improvement of Cyprus sheep Cyprus produces a considerable variety of fruits, the chief ones For several years choice kinds of fruit trees have been imported from grown in Cyprus; the most largely cultivated being the following: small, sweet, white variety, locally called "antelounika," is grown. that the fruit-producing carob tree of Cyprus is really hermaphrodite, Seed was first imported into Cyprus by the Agricultural Department in There is a small export of black cumin seed from Cyprus. The olive tree grows wild in Cyprus, but the wild fruit is small and The varieties locally grown include plants producing large, medium and ten years ago it was cultivated on a small scale and an annual export of id = 26975 author = Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) title = Chapters in Rural Progress date = keywords = Association; England; Grange; Hesperia; Michigan; New; State; agricultural; american; country; farmer; rural; school; social; work summary = development of agricultural education, the renewed study of the rural our farmers, better business management of the farm, and wiser study and the general school question; agricultural education is a branch of men and women for the business of farming and for life in the rural The country church should co-operate with other rural social agencies. organizations, agricultural educators, rural school-teachers and One powerful means of agricultural education is the farmers'' co-operation between the rural school and the farm community than we The programme needed to unite rural school and farm community is then, by the rural and agricultural schools, and by the development of new agricultural education who has not been trained in rural social science, school, and the farmers'' organization are the great rural social the farmer himself, shall see the social need of the farm community. to secure co-operation between school and farmers'' organization, by Association and the Agricultural College and farmers'' institutes. id = 28730 author = Carrier, Lyman title = Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 date = keywords = America; Dale; England; Indians; Jamestown; London; New; Virginia; english; tobacco summary = crops, the English colonists adopted the Indian method of seeding, Bay for the purpose of founding a colony in the land called Virginia. of their first attempts to plant corn, probably English grain, they Jamestown to allow for clearing land for spring-seeded grains. sheepe." Captain John Smith during his two years with the colony was the culture of a crop new to English farming completely changed their mild varieties since the tobacco grown by the Virginia Indians had a 1632, took 2,000 bushels of corn from Virginia to New England. Virginia General Assembly, in 1666, prohibited all culture of tobacco tobacco soils of Virginia have been cropped and then allowed to go West Indian colonies when the price for tobacco fell below the cost Some English grains were seeded in the cleared land tobacco, or was old Indian fields, is not stated. In the early years at Jamestown, much grain was shipped from England id = 32863 author = Cobbett, William title = Cottage Economy, to Which is Added The Poor Man''s Friend date = keywords = America; BLACKSTONE; England; English; God; HALE; June; King; London; Mr.; Society; day; good; great; law; man; straw; swedish; thing; time; work summary = propose to treat of brewing Beer, making Bread, keeping Cows and Pigs, teach them a great number of useful things, _add greatly to their value those things which, to the hard-working man, is almost a necessary of for _four pounds_ make a great _hole_ in a man''s wages for the year; and five pounds a year which the day-labourer now drizzles away in tea-messes, if the state of things be such that a labouring man can, with the usual Can any man, who knows any thing of the labourer''s life, deny this? Another thing is, can a man who has brewed beer at his own house in is the thing to give her food in; and she should be fed three times a day, things of that sort, all ought to be good in their nature, of a durable poor-laws are the things which men of property, above all others, _ought id = 62782 author = Coe, H. S. title = Sweet Clover: Utilization date = keywords = clover; crop; hay; sweet summary = SWEET CLOVER may be utilized for feeding purposes, as pasturage, hay, second year a cutting of hay and a seed crop usually are harvested. Sweet clover has proved to be a profitable soil-improving crop. Sweet clover has proved to be an excellent pasture crop on many of the The hay crop is likely to be cut so close to the ground that the plants When sweet-clover hay is cut at the right time and cured properly it [Illustration: Fig. 3.--Cutting sweet clover for hay in western Kansas.] TIME TO CUT SWEET CLOVER FOR HAY. the sweet-clover hay crop in the fall of the year of seeding. left when cutting sweet clover, Shoe soles such as are shown in figures mature, as the first crop of sweet clover will replace the corn silage, sweet-clover hay made an average daily gain of 2.45 pounds, at a cost id = 11555 author = Coulton, Miss title = Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money We Made by It date = keywords = CHAPTER; London; butter; cow; house; place; time summary = large garden, and three or four acres of land, for we must keep a cow. stabling, with houses for cows, pigs, and poultry, all in good order. We did not contemplate making butter with one cow, as we thought so more work with butter-making, which she said confidently, would only amount of butter she makes," and gives butt little idea how the said sure of our butter in half an hour, provided the cream was, when put heat the butter was sure to come, in as near as possible the time we directions, she will always be sure of good butter, with very little butter early in the morning, and placing cold water in the churn some Every week we kept an account of the milk and butter we consumed, and meat, bread, milk, butter, eggs, and poultry, in London." London reader, but in country places, where more butter is made in a id = 29057 author = Crapo, Henry Howland title = Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 date = keywords = Michigan; State; farmer; sheep; wool summary = farmers generally, not only as to the most desirable breed of sheep, but The subject of Sheep-Husbandry with us is certainly an important one--wool being a great, leading staple product of our State; and very class of sheep are seen, that a strong preference for fine-wooled present time among the farmers of this State, and money in the purchase such wool to sell, taken from sheep for which he paid very large prices, increased demand, but has enhanced the price of this kind of wool, which the more general breeding of long wool sheep. When the price of wool is high, the farmers are too reluctant to sell than because at that time the price of wool was very low and the market important matter in connection with sheep husbandry in this State. prejudice of the manufacturers against "Michigan wool" was so great that this great evil, and to place "Michigan wool" where it should most id = 32949 author = Crow, Martha Foote title = The American Country Girl date = keywords = America; CHAPTER; Camp; Christian; Club; Country; Department; Fire; Girl; God; New; School; State; Sunday; day; farm; good; great; home; life; little; thing; time; woman; work; year; young summary = The Country Girl is the life of the home. [Illustration: The Country Girl is the life of the home. Such glimpses of the real life of some Country Girls in their farm Institute, a school where they train boys and girls for farm life. The following description of a Country Girl''s working day is taken from the life of a fourteen-year-old girl, who lives on a farm of medium If the Country Girl of the future takes her life in her hands and asks is to be the life-work of the Country Girl must not be behind. The Country Girl of to-day may look forward to a life in which she shall All this the Country Girl of to-day may do for her present home; for the young woman in the farm home a life so interesting, so the girls in country life: namely, good times. id = 16594 author = Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) title = A Short History of English Agriculture date = keywords = Act; Ages; Agriculture; Britain; Commerce; Cunningham; Devon; Domesday; England; English; Hawsted; Hen; Ibid; Industry; John; Journal; London; Lord; Middle; Mr.; Norfolk; Prices; R.A.S.E.; Rogers; Royal; Sir; Society; Suffolk; Thorold; VIII; Young; acre; chapter; great; history; year summary = 113, says, ''At this time lay all lands in common fields, in one acre and till half an acre of the lord''s land, and give his work as rest of the year they were free labourers, tending cattle or sheep on than an acre of land, a good ox three times as much, a good cart-horse numerous proofs of the great value of meadow land at a time when hay sheep at 20s.[110] The wages paid to the labourers for day work were sheep instead of corn, owing to the high price of labour. first quarter of the sixteenth century, said an acre of land rented rents and raised the prices of corn, cattle, wool, and poultry almost years in 1688.[268] In 1729 the price of land was said to be Good meadow land fetched a great price: corn, unsaleable owing to the great crop in England.[429] The year id = 59502 author = Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.) title = The Preparation of Bees for Outdoor Wintering date = keywords = bee; case; colony; packing summary = packing cases for the wintering of bees the beekeeper study Department wintered in four-colony packing cases.] be wintered in the four-colony cases to be described later the hives the two entrances on each end of the four-colony winter cases; this of placing packing material below the bottom boards of the hives. temperature readings on hives packed for several winters, the authors [Illustration: Fig. 2.--The winter packing cases used in the Bureau [Illustration: Fig. 3.--An apiary packed for winter in four-colony the usual hive entrance in winter, and the passage between the boards [Illustration: Fig. 4.--An improvised winter case for one colony.] colonies of full strength be wintered in two hive-bodies of 10-frame to pack the bees for winter, and especially as to the right time to Such honey, however, usually is as good for winter stores as if it for bees from the time they are packed until they are unpacked in the id = 59630 author = Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.) title = Comb Honey date = keywords = brood; colony; comb; honey; super summary = A 10-frame hive with comb-honey super and perforated [Illustration: Fig. 1.--A 10-frame hive with comb-honey super For comb-honey production the brood chamber should be of such a size honey in the brood chamber some of the heaviest combs should be removed colonies, or another brood chamber filled with empty combs may be filled with combs of brood and adhering bees (without the queen) drawn =WHAT TO USE IN THE BROOD CHAMBER WHEN HIVING SWARMS.= =WHAT TO USE IN THE BROOD CHAMBER WHEN HIVING SWARMS.= (5) Combs of honey are sometimes used on which to hive swarms. Some beekeepers contract the brood chamber, when hiving swarms, to five (2) Use two hive bodies as a brood chamber before the honey flow, and emerging brood and few young bees, on colonies in which the queen storing colony at the beginning of the honey flow should delay swarming id = 33060 author = Duryee, William Budington title = A Living from the Land date = keywords = Jersey; New; available; cost; country; farm; good; home; house; illustration; milk; plant; soil; supply; type; water summary = Country homes backed by intensive types of agriculture serve modern human of industrial life, the mind turns to the country, to the soil, to growing tract of good, productive soil will usually be found a better investment a small home garden to supply the vegetable needs of the household to the locate on a productive type of soil may easily lead to loss of the Many types of services are available to the country home owner, including homes it is necessary to construct a water-supply system, which means Every type of real soil contains all the elements of plant growth. that the only way to determine which plants will grow best on a given soil to get a soil type that will meet the requirements of most plants. Nearly all country places have sufficient area for planting small fruits Produce at home all farm products offered for sale, if possible, and make id = 39869 author = E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company title = Farming with Dynamite: A Few Hints to Farmers date = keywords = Cross; Dynamite; Red summary = use of "Red Cross" Dynamite on the farm. tells just how to use "Red Cross" Dynamite safely and easily, and make Cross" Dynamite in their work, they are constantly reporting new uses If you want to remove a whole tree, "Red Cross" Dynamite will lift it hard-pan, or clay subsoils, without the use of "Red Cross" Dynamite. rendered fertile at once by blasting with "Red Cross" Dynamite. With "Red Cross" Dynamite you can break up the ground all over the field land blasted by exploding charges of about 3 ounces of dynamite in holes In the orchard "Red Cross" Dynamite not only saves much labor and time "Red Cross" Dynamite not only excavates the required hole, but also "Red Cross" Dynamite is especially useful in excavating wells and "Red Cross" Dynamite is a big saver of time and labor in making new This work can be done with "Red Cross" Dynamite in one-tenth the time id = 40888 author = Gilbert, Frank title = Jethro Wood, Inventor of the Modern Plow. A Brief Account of His Life, Services, and Trials; Together with Facts Subsequent to his Death, and Incident to His Great Invention date = keywords = Jethro; Mr.; Plough; Wood; american; board; mould; plow summary = JETHRO WOOD, INVENTOR OF THE MODERN PLOW. Jethro Wood took out two plow patents, and those who wish to belittle "The mould-board, which the said Jethro Wood claims as his own, and continued, would reach; if, the said Jethro Wood repeats, a right line "In the second place, the said Jethro Wood claims an exclusive right "In the fourth place, the said Jethro Wood claims the exclusive right "In the fifth place, the said Jethro Wood claims an exclusive right to "During the year, 1820, Jethro Wood sent one of his plows to Alexander originator of the plow in use, but now his right to the invention was plow which was said to have a cast-iron mould-board of exactly similar Everywhere in that State he found ''Wood''s plow'' Jethro Wood and his plow. had mould-board plows. "The American plow, during the colonial period, was of wood, the id = 16900 author = Goodrich, C. L. (Charles Landon) title = The First Book of Farming date = keywords = Acid; FIG; crop; food; illustration; leave; nitrogen; plant; plow; root; seed; soil; water summary = After the study of roots and soils the other parts of the plant are 4. To show that plant roots take water from the soil 10 function of plant roots then is to take food from the soil for the To show that plant roots take food from the soil. To show that plant roots take food from the soil. roots of farm plants develop in that part of the soil that has been absorbing moisture laden with plant food from the surface of the soil sixty bushel crop of corn the plants pump from the soil by means of moist soil and plant seeds of corn and beans and peas at depths of with soil and plant in it a kernel of corn, a bean, a cotton seed or plants, the amount of water which a soil holds and can give up to =Cutting=, a part of a plant placed in moist soil, water or other id = 35696 author = Greeley, Horace title = What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science date = keywords = Agriculture; Corn; England; Fall; Grain; Gypsum; Hay; Lime; Muck; New; Oats; Plains; Spring; States; West; Winter; York; acre; apple; farm; farmer; good; summer; tree; year summary = farmers that draining, irrigation, deep plowing, heavy fertilizing, &c., Many farmers far above want will this Winter feed out fields of Corn and farmers who have become poor while usually growing good crops. grow into a good farm more easily and far more surely than they can pay Good farming land, improved or unimproved, is this day cheaper in the especial suggestions to young farmers with regard to tree-planting. I. Land wisely planted with trees, and fenced so far as need be to keep New-England farms, whereof five to ten acres might be thus irrigated at The farmer who has a good team may profitably keep the plow wherewith he is breaking up and fitting his farm to grow a good crop farmers grow some crops at a profit, others at a loss; ought they not to The farmer who annually grows a thousand acres of good Grain, id = 4509 author = Hall, Bolton title = Three Acres and Liberty date = keywords = Agriculture; Department; England; Jersey; Mr.; New; Philadelphia; States; United; West; York; acre; chapter; crop; farm; garden; good; land; large; man; market; plant; small; work; year summary = To raise good crops costs time and attention and rent for good land, he pays out in cash $300, besides farm wages. wants to can have a home garden--it needs but a small plot of land. that vacant land near a large city at $100 per acre may be cheaper run to buy that good plot of land in a high state of cultivation "Millions of acres of farm land are being held out of use and other twenty acres) on average lands, on very good ground only ten to half an acre of land to garden early, especially as I started "If the land will produce over one hundred pounds per year per acre, To run a successful market garden for profit, land suitably such land, hoed garden or farm crops may be profitable while the large crops of small fruits and market garden vegetables. id = 20772 author = Hill, Daniel Harvey title = Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition date = keywords = America; EXERCISE=; FIG; South; States; United; animal; crop; farm; food; good; illustration; insect; land; milk; plant; root; section; seed; soil; tree; water summary = plant food, but by the continuous growing of crops like wheat, corn, and plant food itself, lime helps most soils by improving the structure of Root-tubercles do not form on all kinds of plants that farmers grow. crop soon uses up all of the available plant food that it likes. commercial fertilizers or manure; second, by planting on the land crops of the soil after a while, and a new wheat crop, if planted on the by buds (that is, by small pieces cut from parent plants), or by seeds. that a thousand apple or other fruit or flower seeds from plants usually Inasmuch as this crop takes so little plant food from the soil, other plant food in the soil to make a good crop of beets and avoid any The plant will grow on many different kinds of soil, but it needs a id = 63169 author = Hollowell, E. A. (Eugene Amos) title = Crimson Clover [1938] date = keywords = clover; seed summary = provided the seed is sown in fertile soil early in August. Furthermore, the crop plants in the row shade the clover seedlings and planted between the rows of other crops, the seed is usually broadcast on [Illustration: Figure 2.--Seeding crimson clover in corn.] Crimson clover is often seeded following a grain crop, and this is a When the crop is planted on extremely poor soils, good stands and this region crimson clover may be successfully grown without fertilizer, the domestic crimson clover seed offered on the market is produced in grazed or harvested for hay or for crimson clover seed, while the second row crops are planted, allowing the clover between the plowed strips Crimson clover is a prolific seed-producing plant and yields of 5 to Large yields and ease of harvesting crimson clover seed are the principal [Illustration: Figure 6.--Cutting a crimson clover seed crop with a mower id = 63170 author = Hollowell, E. A. (Eugene Amos) title = Crimson Clover [1947] date = keywords = clover; seed summary = When crimson clover is planted in fall the common crimson clover usually produces a good crop. Crimson clover is often seeded following a grain crop. is sufficient to produce two crops of crimson clover before it becomes Before World War II more than half the crimson clover seed used in the Dixie crimson clover is a new hard-seeded variety that has given promising Seeding crimson clover either immediately before or following heavy rains, Soil from a field where inoculated crimson clover has been grown may also and the crimson clover is seeded at half to two-thirds the normal rate. mixture may be grazed or harvested for hay or for crimson clover seed, Crimson clover is a heavy seed-producing plant, and yields of 5 to 10 crimson clover is such an ideal legume crop. [Illustration: Figure 4.--Crimson clover seed crop cut with a mower to combine the seed from standing plants. id = 4525 author = Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George) title = The Farm That Won''t Wear Out date = keywords = States; United; crop; land; pound; soil summary = The plant food required for one acre of wheat yielding 50 bushels, soil--either directly or in farm fertilizer--then the loss per acre years increased the yield of corn by 10.7 bushels where no organic truth is that by soil enrichment alone the average crop yields of a 100-bushel crop of corn removes 150 pounds of nitrogen from the (6) Average farm manure contains 16 pounds of nitrogen per ton. If the grain farmer grows 40 bushels of wheat to the acre, clover pounds of nitrogen an acre would leave the farm if the total grain and then the crop residues or farm manure is returned to the soil to value of the farm land in the United States increased by 118 per cent soil enrichment will increase the crop yield by two bushels of corn acre; while a six-year average yield of 90 bushels has been produced id = 59554 author = Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian) title = House Flies date = keywords = fly; house; illustration; manure summary = 1. The common house fly (_Musca domestica_); Puparium, 2. The biting house fly (_Stomoxys calcitrans_): Adult, 3. A stable fly (_Muscina stabulans_): Adult, larva, 6. The little house fly (_Homalomyia brevis_): Adults and larva 9 [Illustration: Fig. 1.--The common house fly (_Musca domestica_): [Illustration: Fig. 3.--A stable fly (_Muscina stabulans_): Adult, numbers in which house-fly larvæ occur in horse-manure piles, a quarter 1,200 house flies to the pound of manure. [Illustration: Fig. 6.--The little house fly (_Homalomyia brevis_): treatment of the breeding places of the house fly become most important will always result in a diminution of the numbers of the house fly, a manure pile in such a way as to stop the breeding of flies. early in April, 1898, to prevent the breeding of house flies about the kerosene and water, the breeding of house flies can be prevented. The house fly has a number of natural enemies. id = 26313 author = Hunt, Thomas Forsyth title = The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know date = keywords = New; Pennsylvania; States; United; York; acre; animal; average; crop; farm; farmer; labor; land; man; year summary = Assuming 160 acres of land, all tillable, devoted to dairy farming in made in one year a profit of over $19,000 from a 6,000-acre wheat farm is that a $500-a-year-income farm is a more important factor to the first instance the net profit per farm increases until 280 acres are for a tenant cotton farm is between 20 and 50 acres, both the product average size of all farms in the United States as 147 acres, with the Whenever I am asked a question involving the production of farm crops at the present prices of farm products and cost of fertilizers for the from the sale of farm crops or animal products. 1,000-tree orchard will increase the value of the farm $1,000 a year Animal Production { Dairy Farming--Milk, butter and cheese. returns obtained in producing the great staple farm products; yet one average farm values per acre for five staple crops for five years, id = 59503 author = Husmann, George C. (George Charles) title = Home Manufacture and Use of Unfermented Grape Juice date = keywords = Station; Work; grape; juice summary = and use of unfermented grape juice, by Mr. George C. HOME MANUFACTURE AND USE OF UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. HOME MANUFACTURE AND USE OF UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. Unfermented grape juice has no doubt been used ever since wine has that to keep grape juice sweet fermentation must be prevented, and to be it be desired to make a red juice, heat the crushed grapes to not above fruit can also preserve grape juice, for the principles involved are Unfermented grape juice properly made and bottled Another method of making unfermented grape juice, which is often resorted making unfermented grape juice, when, as a matter of fact, it can be made from any grape; not only this, but unfermented juice is made from other USES OF UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. USES OF UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. FOOD VALUE OF UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. FOOD VALUE OF UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. Grape juice contains the same kinds of nutrients as other foods. id = 30808 author = James, C. C. (Charles Canniff) title = History of Farming in Ontario date = keywords = Agriculture; Canada; Ontario; States; United; West; british summary = Most of them had lived on farms in New York State, that year, organized an agricultural society at the headquarters which The organization of agricultural societies in the various districts, 1846, there was organized the Provincial Agricultural Association and Towards the latter part of the period a new agricultural industry came established itself as a part of the agricultural life of Canada West. condition of agriculture in Ontario when the Dominion was born. known as the Ontario Agricultural College. agricultural resources of the Province of Ontario, the progress and third time, and for years it formed the Ontario farmer''s library. In 1888 a new period in Ontario''s agricultural history begins. for the developing of this new agriculture in Ontario, reference should The history of agricultural work in Ontario in recent years may be put of Ontario agriculture shows many changes in the past hundred years, but id = 34562 author = Kendall, Edward C. title = John Deere''s Steel Plow date = keywords = Andrus; Deere; John; plow summary = JOHN DEERE''S STEEL PLOW JOHN DEERE''S STEEL PLOW cutting edge, the share, on the first Deere plows was steel. plow identified as one made by John Deere at Grand Detour in 1838 and [Illustration: Figure 3.--RECONSTRUCTIONS OF JOHN DEERE''S 1837 PLOW. [Illustration: Figure 5.--MOLDBOARD OF 1847 JOHN DEERE PLOW, showing how Examination of the 1838 plow suggests that Deere cut the moldboard and for the moldboards of the Deere plows? [Illustration: Figure 7.--JOHN DEERE''S 1838 PLOW, RIGHT SIDE, showing John Deere''s plows during the 1840''s and 1850''s had wrought-iron [Illustration: Figure 9.--JOHN DEERE''S 1838 PLOW, LEFT SIDE, showing importance Deere attached to his plows having steel shares, as shown in Deere''s plows, probably distinctive by reason of their steel shares, may the supposition that the moldboards of the first John Deere plows were from the late 1850''s on Deere plows had steel moldboards.) However, mill 6. The Museum''s John Deere plow (Cat. No. id = 59555 author = Kephart, Leonard Wheeler title = Poison-ivy, Poison-oak and Poison Sumac: Identification, Precautions and Eradication date = keywords = Figure; ivy; plant; poison; sumac summary = shows the extensive range where some form of poison-ivy is likely to be _Figure 2._--Large poison-ivy vine growing on a tree for support. the usual form of the common poison-ivy in wooded areas. _Figure 3._--_A_, Common poison-ivy growing in a hedge and on a shade _Figure 5._--Common poison-ivy growing along fence row. _Figure 4._--Common poison-ivy growing on side of house with ornamental _Figure 4._--Common poison-ivy growing on side of house with ornamental _Figure 6._--Leaves of common poison-ivy, about half natural size. _Figure 7._--Common poison-ivy vine with clusters of flowers in the axis _Figure 8._--Common poison-ivy, about natural size: _A_, Flowers; _B_, fruit of common poison-ivy shown in figure 8, although the individual _Figure 11._--Eastern oakleaf poison-ivy: _A_, Leaves, showing upper deep _Figure 17._--Western poison-oak, showing common leaf types: _A_, Leaves Chemical sprays can be used at any time when poison-ivy is in full leaf, plants in a stand of poison-ivy with one application. id = 63166 author = Kephart, Leonard Wheeler title = Growing Crimson Clover date = keywords = clover; crimson; crop; seed summary = Crimson Clover is a handsome fall-planted annual, widely cultivated in of a field of crimson clover seeded in corn the previous summer is shown Seeding crimson clover in an intertilled crop is successful mostly on on sandy soils in many cases, is to seed the crimson clover on specially In the ordinary rotation, crimson clover follows a crop of small grain. however, crimson clover is a crop for maintaining soils which are already implement for preparing the seed bed for crimson clover.] Where crimson clover is seeded after a crop of small grain, the stubble The ordinary rate of seeding crimson clover is 15 pounds per acre, The most common method of seeding crimson clover in intertilled crops [Illustration: Fig. 6.--Seeding crimson clover in corn at the last a stand of crimson clover through drought if they sow the seed in the hull id = 5350 author = King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram) title = Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan date = keywords = Canton; China; Fig; Japan; Korea; Manchuria; Shanghai; Shantung; States; United; acre; chinese; crop; field; foot; japanese; land; large; pound; rice; soil; water summary = Japan 56 per cent of the cultivated fields, 11,000 square miles, is The average area of the rice field in Japan is less than five square grave lands had become nearly naked soil, as seen in Fig. 27 where a Fields which had matured two crops of rice during the long summer, applied to rice, Fig. 45 showing a field as seen in Japan. lands is largely used upon the rice fields, more than sixteen inches inches of water applied to the rice fields of the three main islands a closer view than Fig. 27 of the farmer watering his little field The basal food crop of the people of China, Korea and Japan is rice, of water rice on the plains land at 44 bushels per acre, and that of cultivated land produces a crop of water rice each year and 7.96 per id = 34437 author = Lantz, David E. (David Ernest) title = Methods of Destroying Rats date = keywords = destroy; rat summary = A compilation of all the methods of destroying rats practiced in traps; (3) ferrets; (4) fumigation, and (5) rat-proof construction of used in poisoning rats and mice, is harmless to larger animals. The prepared bait should be placed in rat runs, a small placed in the rat runs; or oatmeal may be wet with a strychnine sirup, ~Poison in the Poultry House.~--For poisoning rats in buildings and yards Wire cage traps (French) also are useful for catching rats, but in the Rats are very suspicious, and baits and traps should be trapping and poisoning if the rats are fed for a night or two with the A ferret is useful for the purpose of driving rats out of burrows and Rats may be destroyed in their burrows in the fields, and, still more Rat-proof granaries, corncribs, and poultry houses may be constructed by Rats destroy more poultry and game, id = 34446 author = Lantz, David E. (David Ernest) title = Cottontail Rabbits in Relation to Trees and Farm Crops date = keywords = November; October; rabbit summary = COTTONTAIL RABBITS IN RELATION TO TREES AND FARM CROPS. rabbits and methods of controlling their ravages on trees and cultivated Traps and other devices that are effective with cottontail rabbits do Rabbits are protected (1915) by close seasons in States and Provinces as TABLE I.--_Lengths of open season for rabbits or hares._ In about half the States that have a close season for rabbits the laws ferrets is forbidden by law in many States that protect the rabbit. poison rabbits, the baits may be placed inside these traps and domestic States that protect rabbits. States that protect rabbits. Cottontail rabbits may be poisoned in winter by baiting them with twigs Many devices for protecting trees from rabbits have been recommended, The most promising simple washes for protecting large trees from rabbits excellent results in protecting young orchards from jack rabbits, and Among the best mechanical contrivances for protecting trees from rabbits id = 35542 author = Lantz, David E. (David Ernest) title = House Rats and Mice date = keywords = Biological; States; Survey; United; mouse; rat summary = In the United States rats and mice each year destroy crops and other The common brown rat breeds 6 to 10 times a year and produces an average DESTRUCTIVE HABITS OF HOUSE RATS AND MICE. PROTECTION OF FOOD AND OTHER STORES FROM RATS AND MICE. rat-proof by a liberal use of cement in the foundations and floors; or If rat-proof buildings are not available, it is possible, by the use of =Rat-proofing by elevation.=--The United States Public Health Service and mice if placed in inexpensive rat-proof containers covered with wire A common mistake in trapping for rats and mice is to use only one or two Cage traps may be baited and left open for several nights until the rats The best bait usually is food of a kind that the rats and mice do not rats must aim at _building the animals out of shelter and food_. id = 33921 author = Lyon, William Scrugham title = Cacao Culture in the Philippines date = keywords = Forastero; cacao; plant; plantation; tree; year summary = general extension of cacao cultivation into all regions. the plantation of rapid growing trees; and, best of all, plantings also be remembered that, owing in part to the close planting of cacao and the planter should leave few shade trees to the hectare. shade plants between the rows of cacao, nothing is gained by laying off Cacao, relatively to the size of the tree, may be planted very the final planting) between each row of cacao a line of temporary All the varieties of cacao in general cultivation may be referred to the fact that the cacao bears its crop directly upon the main branches will be planted to cacao where all the conditions that help to operating expenses until the cacao trees begin to bear. Seed purchase, rearing and planting 12,000 cacao, S. Augustin, cacao plants were first brought here in the year 1670 id = 40670 author = Macdonald, William title = Makers of Modern Agriculture date = keywords = Agriculture; Coke; Holkham; John; Mr.; Sinclair; Tull; Young; year summary = JETHRO TULL : FOUNDER OF THE PRINCIPLES OF DRY-FARMING of three years Tull returned to "Prosperous Farm"--a place for ever Tull died in the month of March, in the year 1740, at the age of In the year 1817 Coke was called on to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, published in the year 1842. The last of "Coke''s Clippings" took place in the year 1821. It happened at this time that a certain farmer named Mr. Overman, who had been foremost in furthering the new agricultural young man, returning from a two years'' cruise paid a visit to his of practical farmers, was born at Whitehall, London, in the year 1741. If Tull was the founder of dry-farming, and Coke the father of the work on the roads for six days in every year. sheep-shearing contests which a few years later developed into Coke''s id = 22973 author = Markham, Gervase title = The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments date = keywords = Barley; CHAP; Corne; Hoppes; Husbandman; March; Orchard; Pease; Plough; Rye; Sand; Vine; Wheate; haue; illustration; manure; summer summary = euery good Husbandman neuer to goe forth with his Plough but to haue his Now, when you haue plowed all your Pease-ground, you shall let it so in this gray clay you shall begin with your Pease-earth euer: then this manner: First, you shall cause your séedes-man to sow the land with plough, and beginning at the furrow of the land, you shall plow euery binding, and doth bring forth great store of wéedes, then you shall lay choake vp the Plough, that hée which holds it shall haue enough to doe much earth: but if you haue foure fields, then you shall sow those mixt earths, you shall lay your Lands high, round, and little, set your shall then graft them vpon a Mulberry stocke: and if you will haue the You shall also vnderstand that all such fruit-trées as you doe plant id = 59546 author = Marsden, Stanley J. title = Turkey Raising date = keywords = Bronze; Wheat; bird; feed; figure; illustration; turkey summary = When incubators or chicken hens are used to hatch the eggs, the turkey Feeding young breeding turkeys is a matter of supplying a growing ration can be obtained with a simple laying ration, such as laying mixture No. 1, if the birds get an abundance of fresh green feed and have range. raised per hen is considered very good in well-managed turkey flocks, The poults may be brooded naturally by turkey hens or artificially by used either for setting a turkey hen or for raising a brood of poults.] turkey poults of various ages; _A_, Lath feeder for first week; _B_, The following starting mashes are recommended for feeding turkey poults mashes are fed without scratch grain; but water, green feed, and hard [Illustration: Figure 13.--Mash hopper for feeding young turkeys [Illustration: Figure 16.--Large range house for turkeys. [Illustration: Figure 18.--Floor plan of turkey range house with id = 39483 author = McKeever, William A. (William Arch) title = Farm Boys and Girls date = keywords = Company; Education; FIG; Kansas; New; PLATE; Rural; York; boy; child; country; farm; girl; good; home; illustration; life; school; work; young summary = to the farm home as being the best possible place for rearing children, implied meanings the three great child-developing agencies: play, work, the industrious men and women whose worthy life-long devotion to work is especially give definite helps for the boy-and-girl life of the farm may are not touching in a vital way the lives of country boys and girls. result, the country schools have been educating boys and girls away from constructive work among country boys and girls, the following detailed life and the home work serve her needs and purposes in a most beautiful Women''s work in the country home naturally calls for _SOCIAL TRAINING FOR FARM BOYS AND GIRLS_ _SOCIAL TRAINING FOR FARM BOYS AND GIRLS_ the very best boys remain on the farm and help develop rural life into This new method of preparing young people for their life work id = 45154 author = Miller, Mary Rogers title = The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work date = keywords = April; Bulletin; Christmas; New; States; United; York; animal; bee; boy; day; egg; find; good; illustration; like; little; place; plant; time; tree; water; way; wild; work; year; young summary = who are doing great things now started as boys and girls with work to rugs, drying herbs, corn and fruits, raising queen bees, collecting planting nuts from trees that produce fine ones abundantly every year, Boys and girls who like to harvest nature''s crops are missing a lot Every boy or girl that helps to harvest nature''s crops can do a little Boys and girls of a more enlightened generation know better ways and years of time, you will begin with good Angora does which cost from know about, or thirty dollars a year, like the twenty-five good cows, of good stories of boys who have begun chicken raising at twelve 1, Housing and Care; 2, Food and Feeding; 3, Raising Young Stock; 4, of clean water, clean houses and yards and good feed are needed to get a dozen, and raises a family, she does a pretty good year''s work, and id = 59485 author = Phillips, Everett Franklin title = Wintering Bees in Cellars date = keywords = bee; cellar; hive summary = RESULTS from wintering bees in a cellar are excellent when conditions wintering apply equally to the protection of the bees in the cellar. To carry colonies of bees a long distance from the apiary to the cellar bees gives the best possible results in wintering, yet few such cellars To provide good drainage and adequate ventilation for the bee cellar [Illustration: Fig. 2.--Interior of bee cellar with hives In piles of best time to put the bees into the cellar. in the bee cellar is inside the entrance of a good colony where it may hive it usually will be best to have the temperature of the cellar at bees are being wintered in a cellar which has the right temperature, a the bees have been wintered in the cellar in double-walled hives they It is also a good practice to winter the bees in the cellar in a hive id = 11238 author = Pinchot, Gifford title = The Fight for Conservation date = keywords = Forest; Service; States; United; american; conservation; man; nation; people summary = on the public lands, they must be conserved for the men who make homes. What we need is the use of the law for the public good, and the use of laws and institutions for the public good, and the conservation The principles which govern the conservation movement, like all great business advantage, and becomes a great question of national duty to control the use of the natural resources, which are the great Second, the men to whom the people grant the right to use water-power political control of public men, law-courts, and legislatures by great the public-land States west of the Mississippi the great question the American people toward conserving the natural resources, and toward in the power of public spirit to say whether men or money shall control. united together to deprive the Nation of the great natural resources question of the conservation of natural resources, or national id = 33243 author = Pryor, Elizabeth Brown title = Frying Pan Farm date = keywords = Beard; County; Derr; Fairfax; February; Floris; Harrison; Herndon; January; Joseph; March; Middleton; Netherton; Pan; Pryor; Report; Virginia; Washington; illustration summary = specialization in agriculture, the farmers of Fairfax County persisted Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, grew wheat on her family''s farm to fifty-acre farm shows the mix of old and new owned by the typical farmer In the end, Fairfax County farmers generally farm as a milk producing plant, with "little time or space for anything pure-bred bunch," the county agents helped Fairfax farmers develop so [131] "Fairfax Farmer States Facts," _Herndon News-Observer_, March 1, production per farm in Fairfax County to be 400% above the average in B. Derr, "Helping Farmers," _Herndon News-Observer_, April 14, Fairfax County farm organization. Dairy Marketing Company and Fairfax County Farmer''s Service Company work of the Floris Vocational High School and the Future Farmers of [180] _Ibid._, 14 and 26; "Farm Home Water Supply for Fairfax County," Fairfax County farmers marketed little of their grain production, the [Illustration: The farmer''s house at Frying Pan Farm. id = 48709 author = Redington, Paul G. (Paul Goodwin) title = Information for the Guidance of Field Men and Cooperators of the Bureau of Biological Survey Engaged in the Control of Injurious Rodents and Predatory Animals date = keywords = Biological; control summary = OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY ENGAGED IN THE CONTROL OF INJURIOUS RODENTS AND Bureau of Biological Survey_, in the Division of Predatory-Animal and toward the control of predatory animals and injurious rodents. The administration of wild life by the Bureau of Biological Survey cooperation for the control of wild animals injurious to agriculture, The control of such predatory wild animals as coyotes, wolves, mountain Though the chief control work directed by the Biological Survey is species of wild animals has been and will continue to be one of control Extreme care should be exercised in handling poisons in rodent-control rodents and relatively harmless to other forms of animal life. Poisoning operations for the control of predatory animals should be In dispensing poisons for the use of cooperators in predatory-animal control, Biological Survey field leaders are instructed to exercise the All predatory-animal hunters must visit their poison stations as id = 59625 author = Robinson, Brittain B. (Brittain Bragunier) title = Hemp date = keywords = Kentucky; fiber; hemp summary = a registered firm dealing in hemp, to plant and grow the crop, and to Hemp is an annual plant that grows from seed each year, and therefore it When hempseed is sown thickly for fiber production, the plants usually Most fiber-producing varieties of hemp require a frost-free growing of corn per acre, it should not be planted to hemp for fiber production. his hemp between the time he plants his small grains and the corn. A good practice in planting hemp for fiber production is to sow around Hemp is harvested for seed production when the plant on being shaken Hemp is harvested for fiber production when the male plants are in full fiber from hemp that has been harvested so late that many seeds have to keep the hemp stalks and fiber well butted. If hemp is planted for seed production, the average yields per acre are id = 20168 author = Robinson, Solon title = Guano: A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers date = keywords = England; Mr.; Newton; Peru; Virginia; acre; bushel; crop; guano; manure; peruvian; soil; wheat summary = and sowed alike, without manure, except 200 lbs of Peruvian guano upon guano to the acre, and after the first harrowing sows the clover seed. same kind of soil, well manured in the previous crop of corn, sowed 36 acre field; on two lands adjoining, was guano, at the rate of 200 pounds season, this being the fourth year in grass, the guanoed lands present with guano--make fine crops and improve the land, while they take African or Patagonian guano to an acre of growing wheat, the land being guano be applied to both crops of wheat, on corn land and fallow, or putrescent manures to the corn crop, to be followed by guano on wheat. On wheat, I apply three bushels of Peruvian guano _Great Crops from Guano._--In England, 48 bushels of wheat and 100 of 600 bushels of wheat of very fine quality; both pieces of guanoed land id = 21022 author = Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir title = Lessons on Soil date = keywords = Fig; Phot; Pot; clay; illustration; plant; sand; soil; water summary = Rye growing in surface soil, subsoil, and sand . Mustard growing in surface soil, subsoil, and sand . Something in the soil uses up air and makes lime water Water can pass from wet to dry places in the soil, it Plants growing in soils supplied from below with water. 1. Soil contains water, grit or sand, silt, clay, a part that burns dry up very quickly after rain and not to remain wet like a clay field. the rain water soaks through the sand or chalk until it comes to clay Now try the experiment with very dry garden soil: little or no change _Dry powdered soil, sand, clay, leaf mould, seeds. damp soils like loams and clays, while narrow-leaved plants can grow on On sandy soils (the water content being small) the wild plants and On clay soils (the water content being good) wild plants and trees id = 27327 author = Schlebecker, John T. title = Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 date = keywords = Company; Illinois; John; New; Ohio; Plow; USNM; Virginia; Washington; Wire; York; patent summary = people made a countless range of devices for farmers--from steel plows Model of Flail Threshing Machine, 19th Century. wooden box on wheels, 12 by 5 inches, has metal teeth set at the front were made in separate pieces did the iron plow come into wide use. Model Tractor with Plow, Harrow, and Roller, 1919. common and popular American plow of the 18th century. flat, wooden moldboard; wrought-iron share and colter; a two-wheel truck model of a hand-powered milking machine built by William M. model of a two-disk plow for a Ferguson tractor. plastic and metal model of a New Idea, tractor-drawn manure spreader. and metal model of a one-row, tractor-drawn corn picker. Wooden Hand Fork, late 19th century. One-Row, Hand "Corn Jobber," late 19th century. Side Hill Plow, late 19th century. Model of John Deere Plow, 1960. Gift of John Deere Company, Moline, Illinois. [Illustration: Figure 29.--John Deere Model D tractor, 1923. id = 39791 author = Shearer, Herbert A. title = Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. date = keywords = Cloth; Lea; end; farm; figure; file; foot; good; illustration; inch; iron; plow; power; pump; tool; water; work summary = THE FARM SHOP WITH TOOLS FOR WORKING WOOD AND IRON THE FARM SHOP WITH TOOLS FOR WORKING WOOD AND IRON [Illustration: Figure 4.--Floor Plan of Farm Implement Shed, showing the [Illustration: Figure 12.--Hand Saw. This pattern, both for cross cut [Illustration: Figure 18.--Heavy Hand Axe for Use on the Shop Chopping [Illustration: Figure 42.--Iron Work Bench. _Iron Working Tools._--Forge tools for a farm shop need not be numerous. work around plows, cultivators, harvesters, and other farm machines, a [Illustration: Figure 88.--(1) Wagon-Box Irons, showing how to attach [Illustration: Figure 97.--Tool Box for Field Use. The long open side is A great deal of farm work is done by engine power. working the pump and grinding feed, a two-horse power engine is more soils so that a plow to work well on one farm may need to be quite [Illustration: Figure 224.--Heavy Breaking Plow, used for road work and id = 62605 author = Simons, Joseph Winslow title = Sewage and Garbage Disposal on the Farm date = keywords = disposal; figure; illustration; tank summary = with septic tanks, and earth-pit privies accomplish this if the water tank through the effluent sewer to the disposal field. cast-iron soil pipe are the standard materials for house sewers on Cast-iron soil pipe with leaded joints should be used when the sewer is [Illustration: Figure 3.--Jointing sewer pipe. for a farm septic tank except for large installations (1,000 gallons Most septic tanks are built of concrete cast in place, since in this [Illustration: Figure 6.--Method of outlining a septic-tank excavation Figure 9 suggests methods of arranging the tiles in disposal fields [Illustration: Figure 9.--Arrangements for tile-disposal fields, method Disposal-tile lines to slope 2" to 4" per 100 feet, not over 6". trenches 4 to 6 feet and install a lower tile line, as shown in figure [Illustration: Slope of disposal tile 2 to 4 inches per 100 feet. a septic-tank system with tile disposal field. id = 59316 author = Smith, Deborah Takiff title = Computers on the Farm Farm Uses for Computers, How to Select Software and Hardware, and Online Information Sources in Agriculture date = keywords = ADDRESS; Extension; Service; State; USDA; computer; information summary = Information Available Online from USDA, State, and How do you select useful computer programs (software) and equipment Besides analyzing farm management problems and storing data, computers information networks linking farmers and other users to the State Service has published a directory of agricultural software programs Some agricultural programs use 48K or 64K of memory. =Information available Online From USDA, State, and Private Online computer services also include buying and selling farm products; in agriculture, can use some form of online information. of the major private online information services with agricultural agricultural production technology service offering data bases from 40 by Capital Publications in Arlington, Va. The service provides market information, such as prices and shipments, national information system for use by State Extension Services, CMN CompuServe Information Service offers access to more than 500 data this marketing information project involves several State farm agricultural commodities, and carries farm management programs as id = 62676 author = Smith, Theobald title = Sewage Disposal on the Farm, and Protection of Drinking Water date = keywords = earth; sewage; soil; water summary = SEWAGE DISPOSAL ON THE FARM AND THE PROTECTION OF DRINKING WATER. sewerage systems, water supplies, and the collection of house waste by get a purer water from the ground than the sewage-polluted fluid which night soil himself rather than have it disposed of by a water-carriage ground-water into the wells or springs near by. In place of the movable earth closets, a water-tight, concreted area The night soil should be received in water-tight receptacles. ground around the house, the liquid sewage from water-closets, the kitchen House slops may be disposed of by surface irrigation or by subsoil pipes, it will also appear plain why ground-water may flow as any surface stream surface of the ground-water. the surface of the deep supply, otherwise the water from the upper layers Or the ground-water stream supplying to prevent all pollution of the ground-water current supplying wells by Besides the protection of the ground-water near the well from pollution id = 62715 author = Stockberger, W. W. (Warner Webster) title = Drug Plants Under Cultivation date = keywords = June; States; United; dry; plant; pound; root; seed summary = The market demand for many cultivated plant drugs is not large enough High prices for plant drugs do not insure large profits in producing SOME DRUG PLANTS SUITABLE FOR CULTIVATION IN THE UNITED STATES. SOME DRUG PLANTS SUITABLE FOR CULTIVATION IN THE UNITED STATES. _Sowing the seed._--A relatively small number of medicinal plants can seed in rows or drills, in order that cultivation of the soil may be Leaves and herbs are usually harvested when the plants are in flower. The plants usually flower in the second year from seed, when the roots The plant may be propagated from seeds or by root division. field cultivation the seed is sown in rows 3 feet apart, but if the spring the plants or rooted cuttings are set in well-prepared soil, 12 plants grown from seed are harvested at the end of the first year, This plant grows well under cultivation in almost any soil, but a id = 16525 author = Streeter, John Williams title = The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm date = keywords = Anderson; August; Exeter; Jack; Jackson; Jane; Jarvis; Johnson; July; Nelson; Oaks; Polly; Sam; Sir; Thompson; Tom; chapter; farm; good; house; man; time; work; year summary = The best way to get good farm hands who would be happy and contented, I country, old men who thought they could do farm work, clerks and seemed a good deal of money to put on an old farm-house for farm-hands, "She doesn''t know a thing about our ways," said Polly, "but Mrs. Thompson can train her as she likes. farm-house; the apples from the trees reserved for home use had been On the last day of the year I went to the farm to pay up to date all "Fun comes high at this time of the year, doesn''t it, Polly?" good time, and we want everything ready for work as soon as the eggs year would be lost, and some good buildings, but I think it would pay in years of married life it will compensate any man to take a little time id = 36031 author = United States. National Conservation Congress title = Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 date = keywords = American; Association; California; Chairman; Commission; Committee; Congress; Conservation; Constitution; Executive; Federal; Forest; Gentlemen; Government; Governor; Ladies; Legislature; Minnesota; Mississippi; Montana; National; New; President; Report; Saint; Secretary; South; State; United; Washington; West; York; applause; great; nation summary = public lands of the United States with which to construct works for farm; the State the resources of its lands, its forests and its waters; Government the right to the water-powers of the State and forever users of forest products, State legislators, and the people generally invade the public land States and assert powers of government that it conserved by our State Government and our people. in the conservation and utilization of the water-power within the State The State has always conserved its water-power. conserve the water-powers of the State, and to report the necessary general development of the water-power resources of the State. conservation of the water resources of the State by means of storage State, showing the National Forests, ownership of public lands (whether problem of the conservative handling of State forest lands for among the people of the United States on National Conservation of our id = 17512 author = Various title = Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date = keywords = Barb; Chicago; Co.; Dr.; FARMER; Fence; Glidden; Illinois; Iowa; January; Lake; Michigan; Mr.; Mrs.; New; PRAIRIE; St.; State; Wimbush; Wire; York; free; good; illustration; price; time; year summary = The Barb-Wire Industry--Some Facts in its Early History not Generally years, through his barb-wire patents and business, gave him the means to bushel on wheat, sometimes paying the price of the paper twenty times A happy new year to all of the readers of THE PRAIRIE FARMER, and may The agricultural editor of the New York Times says that no doubt many OF OUR NEW STANDARD TIME COMMERCIAL MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES AND of_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER COUNTY MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, FREE! of_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER COUNTY MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, FREE! The beginning of the new year is a general time of settling accounts and and a copy of_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER COUNTY MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, and a copy of_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER COUNTY MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, THE PRAIRIE FARMER SENT 1 YEAR FREE! THE PRAIRIE FARMER SENT 1 YEAR FREE! id = 17683 author = Various title = The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date = keywords = Chicago; December; FARMER; Grange; Illinois; Iowa; Jack; January; Kee; Mary; New; PRAIRIE; St.; State; Wisconsin; Yik; day; free; good; horse; illustration; man; price; time; year summary = HORTICULTURE--The Hedge Question, Page 22; Young Men Wanted, 22; He must devote his time to special more than to general farm work. farmer began life the same year, the latter man will make the most him of his distant home but a lone farm-house, a barn, long lines of the work, I have set my own house in order; and the following names will send copy of THE PRAIRIE FARMER One Year and THIS MAP POSTPAID. The Iowa State Improved Stock Breeders'' Association had a good soil five feet wide, purchase of plants, setting, and occasional horse OF OUR NEW STANDARD TIME COMMERCIAL MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES AND another fact: One half the orders sent to nursery-men by farmers during time when such poultry is scarce, bring good prices--from 22 to 25 cents THE PRAIRIE FARMER SENT 1 YEAR FREE! THE PRAIRIE FARMER SENT 1 YEAR FREE! id = 22040 author = Various title = Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date = keywords = Cavendish; Chicago; Darwin; FARMER; Illinois; January; Mr.; New; PRAIRIE; St.; State; United; York; day; free; good; illustration; man; paper; time; year summary = LIVE STOCK--Iowa Wool-Men, Page 36; Polled Cattle-Breeders, 36; Merino EDITOR PRAIRIE FARMER--I write you in regard to the corn question. I have plowed my land for the next year''s crop of corn and put on twenty I thought last year that my seed corn was poor and run out, so I went to acre every good corn year. man who can not provide a good mow should sell his horses to some farmer their horses are at work, which is more than half the year. The year closes with Maryland packed obtainable from 75 to 85 cents; New OUR NEW STANDARD TIME COMMERCIAL MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES AND A boy sixteen years old can work the machine all day and not get any of_ THE PRAIRIE FARMER COUNTY MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, FREE! THE PRAIRIE FARMER SENT 1 YEAR FREE! THE PRAIRIE FARMER SENT 1 YEAR FREE! id = 29665 author = Various title = Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date = keywords = ARGOSY; Amos; Chicago; FARMER; Illinois; Iowa; January; Mr.; New; PRAIRIE; St.; State; Wisconsin; free; good; illustration; present; year summary = EDITORIAL--Items, Page 56; The Cost of Cold Winds, 56; Good Work at seed before risking your entire crop, as by the time you plant once and manure, now is the best time to apply it, working it on top of the soil Last year I sowed my onion seed on the 23d of March; the next ten days add new acres to their farms, and take from tiled land a sufficiently increased yield the first year to pay for tiling, and that their land is but a short time to tell by the work a man does whether he is a good If farmers expect a good crop of corn they should not get seed farm, and the mares can be profitably worked at least part of the year. YEAR, and FOUR numbered receipts, good for FOUR PRESENTS. YEAR, and FOUR numbered receipts, good for FOUR PRESENTS. id = 35816 author = Various title = The Philippine Agricultural Review. Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 date = keywords = Bohol; Bureau; Java; Lamao; Philippines; arabian; fruit summary = several of the citrus fruits that have free stamens in the form of a pomelo, citron, lemon, and lime in his "Citrus Fruits and Their most of the more distinctive Philippine citrus fruits, and several broad, and cuneiform; flowers not seen; fruit 5.7 centimeters long, 7 pulp orange colored, juicy, acid, with distinct aroma; juice cells budded plants growing at Lamao, propagated from material collected acid, lemon flavored; juice cells rather slender, long, and pointed; juicy, acid, scarcely edible; juice cells small, short, containing thin, flesh light colored; pulp acid; juice sacs long and pointed; skin comparatively thick; pulp acid; juice cells small, short and the citrus fruits cultivated in the Philippines, and now and then distinct, 5 millimeters long; stigma large; fruit 5 to 7.3 centimeters in the planting of robusta coffee on a very large scale in Java while the coffee trees are small, perhaps no plant can compete with id = 38955 author = Various title = Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date = keywords = Chicago; Dobb; FARMER; Illinois; Iowa; Mr.; Mrs.; New; PRAIRIE; Smith; St.; State; Stock; corn; disease; free; good; illustration; know; man; year summary = LIVE STOCK--Items, Page 180; Polled Aberdeen Cattle, 180; Grass for Hogs, if any Iowa farmer will come and look at my crib of corn of this year''s variety in the kernel upon the ear; a dent corn seed may furnish a sweet late New York Times: Every Northern farmer knows the common coarse grass Stock Show of Chicago he took first place among the best three-year-olds not know how to grow it, or the seed is not good, or the soil is too new. new heads, that made large growth and bore good crops the following ornamental nursery stock, etc., Centralia, Ill. Illustrated catalogue and price list of grape vines, small fruits, etc. THE MAGNETON APPLIANCE CO., 218 State Street, Chicago, Ill. NOTE.--Send one dollar in postage stamps or currency (in letter at our THE MAGNETON APPLIANCE CO., 218 State Street, Chicago, Ill. NOTE.--Send one dollar in postage stamps or currency (in letter at our id = 46995 author = Various title = The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 01 (1820) date = keywords = Congress; France; James; John; Mr.; New; States; Thomas; United; William; country; crop; great; indian; place summary = Whether that great country, now left rich by nature, persons as any of the states _now existing_ shall think proper to The plough, the great instrument of agricultural labour, was well crops as are most profitable for culture, and at the same time best average crops of wheat, barley, and Indian corn, at their greatest these root crops require any considerable expenditure in seed, and just before the proper time for planting Indian corn; for this crop, seed the product of the corn crop in particular will soon be found crop apply some of this latter manure after the plants are up. in August, is the proper time to transplant this crop, the plants few years, the United States will produce wine for their domestic The _general_ average value of the products of the United States country like the United States, where land is plenty and labour id = 48741 author = Various title = The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 02 (1820) date = keywords = France; Germany; New; Spain; States; United; Vevay; country; crop; good; great; land; manure; soil; year summary = tenent by lease, not to crop the soil more than _three_ years in the pumpkin, in the first years crop, and perhaps in such soil the in cultivating the crop in the way we propose, nearly as great a clayey lands are naturally dry enough for winter crops, we advise lands which are to be cultivated for spring crops, as well as all the gravelly lands just mentioned, are not, in their natural state, no lands are better adapted for root crops of almost every sort, would render the land better adapted for grain crops of every grain and root crops, this manure should be buried in the soil, at manure for drill crops, burying it at a good depth, and raising the crop of wine and brandy in the vine country of France alone--though produces good crops of fine wine, and supplies the province and id = 48748 author = Various title = The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 04 (1820) date = keywords = Britain; England; Europe; George; January; King; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; New; York; day; drink; great; place; time; year summary = Miss Busy lived opposite to Julia''s father''s; and generally took _water_ was the source of vegetable life, and that the earth was _An Expose of the Causes of Intemperate Drinking, and the means existence, so long will the use of that article as a drink continue, word against the _moderate_ or _reasonable_ use of ardent liquors. and other places, on days of public parade and festivity. great length of time anterior to the year 1740." "The great number of public holy-days (as they are termed) which general suspension of useful employment on those days, is followed continue to use spirituous liquor as _a daily table drink_, and The late King is said to have given between 60 and $70,000 a year in consignments for two houses in this place, from the city of New In this state I left them some time, in order to observe what effect id = 48759 author = Various title = The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 05 (1820) date = keywords = Davy; Dr.; England; Franklin; John; Lee; Mr.; SECT; american; day; good; great; life; man; place; plant; time; year summary = If thou art placed in the truly responsible situation of head of little better success was experienced in a variety of trees planted plant this tree in the place of a line of the Athenian poplars, various opinions exist; one, that light enters vegetable matter, plants exposed to _light_, produce oxygen gas in water. prepared flax in a day, and would require one man or woman and three John Adams!" Let us consider how great a space those men have filled as blessed by a grateful people, and a good old age has come upon life of a youth in a strange land, far removed from friends and exponas_ or other writ shall issue for the sale of said lands, such lands, tenements or hereditaments, shall be stayed for one year the said premises shall be stayed for one year from the return day said personal property shall be returned and redelivered into the id = 48760 author = Various title = The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 06 (1820) date = keywords = Bank; England; Fellenberg; Hofwyl; Mr.; english; foot; good; great; man; plant; soil; time; tree; water; year summary = twenty years of a poor man''s life might be so employed as to provide a great point gained, to have brought young men to the age of 18 mechanical or other means, is a work of time, labour and expense, _Any green crop, ploughed into the soil, has an effect highly power employed, which is equal to that of six horses, and the number year in different parts of the trees, sometimes higher and sometimes 40 years, a sum of money equal to the soil; to say this, appears, life in plants thus raised, being young and energetic, operate Agricultural Society_) will, this year, raise double as many branch, and in two years produce fruit of the kind you wish. A pear tree, brought from Holland, and planted in the year 1647, is this time can obtain but little more for his corn than in the year id = 59579 author = Various title = The American Agriculturist. Vol. II. No. XI, December 1843 Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-breeder, and the Horticulturist date = keywords = Agricultural; Agriculturist; American; England; Kentucky; Mr.; New; Society; States; United; good; stock summary = The best method of killing fowls, is to cut their heads off at a single for the purpose of forming a good stock, as the different varieties of the field cut at the same time, was only beginning to spring or As the annual show of the New York State Agricultural Society is now The Agricultural Society of the State of New York --The annual meeting of the New York State Agricultural Society, will the insertion of a bud, instead of a shoot or cutting, into the bark of the wounded parts both of the stock and the scion, use grafting-clay lines in the stock at the place where you wish to insert the bud, and Some gardeners leave a piece of the stock about six inches long for he was examining the fine-wooled flocks of the United States, and wheat per acre, for 30 years, we shall have as the result 36,000 lbs. id = 12140 author = Varro, Marcus Terentius title = Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro date = keywords = Axius; Cato; Cicero; Columella; England; Footnote; Greek; III; Italy; Merula; Pliny; R.R.; Reate; Rome; Scrofa; Spain; Stolo; Varro; Virgil; american; bee; cattle; day; farm; feed; good; kind; land; place; roman; time summary = Varro''s treatise on farm management is the best practical book on time, for so it is with farm work, if one thing is done late, every the cultivation of the land and is so called from the _villa_ or farm "Surely," said Fundanius, "feeding cattle is one thing and agriculture "No kind of cattle," said I, "are of any use to agriculture except to work the land a second time before you sow your seed. and again many place names on land like the town in Greece known as food in the day time where the flock is feeding and at night where the They set bee hives all about the house and planted part of the land it in Cato''s day, but by the time of Varro and Virgil it was well that in Varro''s time the Roman farmer in Italy both sowed and reaped id = 30975 author = Walden, J. H. title = Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature date = keywords = August; England; Europe; Illinois; July; New; North; Ohio; South; West; White; York; american; cow; early; fruit; good; illustration; large; manure; plant; seed; soil; tree; variety summary = An apple-tree, imported from England, produced fruit _Size for transplanting._--Small trees usually do best. bearing year, and those trees having no fruit to mature will put forth for years, making a tree, or growing like a large grapevine. The medium and small red clovers will produce a good crop of seed will wash off the best of the soil, and destroy many seeds and plants. manured and cultivated the previous season in a root-crop, is the best animal-manures are good for young vines, and in preparing the soil, but than in the peach to head-in the trees often, to produce good large Plant seeds from any good variety of fruit; let those seedlings better to cultivate trees that will bear good nuts. garden soil may be made to produce large crops; good, well rotted growth of the young wood above, for next year''s fruiting, and thus tree id = 26801 author = Waring, George E. (George Edwin) title = Village Improvements and Farm Villages date = keywords = Association; Committee; England; Executive; FIG; american; drain; farmer; good; illustration; village; water; work summary = shall be needed for the best sanitary condition of the village, tile-drain, at a depth of three feet, will remove all subsoil water from smaller intervals; and for the best work in roads thirty feet wide or We will assume that a village has a water supply sufficient to admit of the use of water-closets in all houses, and to furnish a good flushing So far as the removal of house sewage alone is concerned, the work need best practical development of village life for farmers. the _desirability_ of village life for farmers can be established, the The influences now at work to make the farmers'' children seek a better homes and their farm-buildings, and live in villages, let us take up system of village life for farmers could be adopted here under the inseparable from village-life could be secured to the American farmer, id = 31105 author = Waring, George E. (George Edwin) title = The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools date = keywords = Acid; CHAPTER; Iron; Soda; animal; contain; footnote; form; lime; manure; matter; plant; soil; water summary = large, and of a very poor quality, but the soil will produce good plants Does a soil formed entirely from rock contain organic matter? The soil formed entirely from rock, contains, of course, no organic _Peaty soils_, of course, contain large quantities of organic matter.[P] soil contains organic matter in varied quantities. containing organic matter, such as peat, muck, animal manure, etc., Again the growth of plants has supplied the surface soil with roots, How do such manures increase the organic matter of soils?] Many soils contain lime enough for the use of plants, in others Many soils contain lime enough for the use of plants, in others If the soil do not contain a sufficient quantity of absorbent matter, plants, or produce such chemical effects on matters in the soil as shall minerals of the soil; and its carbonic acid, being absorbed by the water id = 62592 author = Warren, George M. (George Milton) title = Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home date = keywords = figure; pipe; water summary = replace the seat washer, shut off the water to the faucet. washers for hotor cold-water faucets cost 10 to 15 cents a dozen. Figure 2 shows an ordinary 3/8-inch, 4-ball-handle compression faucet To replace the seat washer, shut off the water to Figure 4, _A_, shows an ordinary half-inch lever-handle Fuller faucet faucet, making a water-tight joint when the cap nut is screwed down. New faucets of the kind shown in figure 1 usually have the top washers Figure 5, _C_, shows the stem packing for the washstand faucet shown faucet and remove the handle and cap nut, as described in connection Figure 7, _B_, shows the plunger and washer-holder cap which screws Rust and dirt in water pipes are more or less successfully removed When thawing a water pipe, work toward the supply, opening a pipe, work upward from the lower end to permit the water to drain away. id = 63165 author = Westgate, J. M. (John Minton) title = Crimson Clover: Growing the Crop date = keywords = clover; crimson; seed summary = 3. Seeding crimson clover in corn at the last cultivation 10 succeeds, crimson clover can be sown following a grain crop or in an crops is ordinarily sufficient for the needs of crimson clover. =SEEDING CRIMSON CLOVER IN INTERTILLED CROPS.= =SEEDING CRIMSON CLOVER IN INTERTILLED CROPS.= possible to mature a crop of clover seed in time for corn planting. [Illustration: Fig. 3.--Seeding crimson clover in corn at the appearance of a field of crimson clover seeded the summer previous in corn =SEEDING CRIMSON CLOVER AFTER EARLY-MATURING CROPS.= =SEEDING CRIMSON CLOVER AFTER EARLY-MATURING CROPS.= It is possible to seed crimson clover after practically any of the =SEEDING CRIMSON CLOVER WITH LATE SUMMER-SEEDED ANNUAL CROPS.= =SEEDING CRIMSON CLOVER WITH LATE SUMMER-SEEDED ANNUAL CROPS.= When crimson clover is seeded alone on good soil it is likely to make so Crimson clover seeded alone 2,836 pounds. =TREATMENT OF CRIMSON CLOVER STANDS AFTER SEEDING.= id = 5152 author = Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James) title = One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered date = keywords = Alfalfa; California; February; Fruit; July; Potatoes; San; State; crop; cut; dry; feed; good; growth; land; plant; root; seed; soil; time; tree; water; year summary = Shallow soil above standing water is not good for fruit trees. year''s crop is made, is probably the best way to strengthen the tree for We wish to plant orchard trees on land cleared this winter: manzanita better to grow a cultivated crop like corn, potatoes, beets, squashes, I have planted a lot of one-year-old cherry trees and would like to know that the fruit trees that spring from planted seeds yield only poor Will summer pruning cause apple trees to bear fruit instead of growing five-year-old trees half the season''s growth; others only cut back six Cherry trees under good growing conditions and proper care are very long Avoid all such trouble by planting good clean trees budded in nursery If the land is yielding good crops of these plants and the roots are Which are the best fruit trees to plant on black adobe soil with water