Indian Corn: Its Value, Culture, and UsesD. Appleton, 1866 - 308 pages |
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... cultivation of the soil . Horticultural magazines and farming journals are finding their way into hundreds of families who , having no ground to cultivate , are yet waking up to a general interest in the subject . Quotations from the ...
... cultivation of the soil . Horticultural magazines and farming journals are finding their way into hundreds of families who , having no ground to cultivate , are yet waking up to a general interest in the subject . Quotations from the ...
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... cultivation of this grain ; some on fields measuring hundreds of acres , and some on limit- ed patches of a few square rods ; some producing fifteen or twenty bushels to the acre , and others one hundred and fifty or more ; but all ...
... cultivation of this grain ; some on fields measuring hundreds of acres , and some on limit- ed patches of a few square rods ; some producing fifteen or twenty bushels to the acre , and others one hundred and fifty or more ; but all ...
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... cultivated on land , long after it has ceased to afford compensating crops of any other grain . It contends with poverty better than most other plants , and may be advantageously grown in any soil fit for cultivation , not excepting ...
... cultivated on land , long after it has ceased to afford compensating crops of any other grain . It contends with poverty better than most other plants , and may be advantageously grown in any soil fit for cultivation , not excepting ...
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... cultivated by man that will grow with equal success in so great a diver- sity of soils . The evidence of this fact is met with in every direction through the country . The travel- ler whose way lies through cultivated districts , passes ...
... cultivated by man that will grow with equal success in so great a diver- sity of soils . The evidence of this fact is met with in every direction through the country . The travel- ler whose way lies through cultivated districts , passes ...
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... cultivated quite extensively and with con- siderable success in Southern Europe , as well as in portions of Asia and Africa , yet America seems to be its peculiar home , and the region of its highest per- fection . From Maine to Oregon ...
... cultivated quite extensively and with con- siderable success in Southern Europe , as well as in portions of Asia and Africa , yet America seems to be its peculiar home , and the region of its highest per- fection . From Maine to Oregon ...
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adapted after-culture agricultural Agriculturist amount Angoumois animal average yield barley beef better bushels of grain bushels per acre cattle census cents per bushel cereal chaffed close planting coal tar condition contain corn and cob corn crop corn meal corn-stalks cost cultivated culture dollars ears earth effect elements equal estimate expense experience farmer farming fattening feeding fertilizers fibre field fifty five fodder forty bushels germination give gluten grain ground growing growth half hundred bushels inches increase Indian corn insect kernel land large yield larger latter less maize manure method million bushels mode mutton nearly nutritive value phosphoric acid plough pork pounds of corn practice principle probably profit prolific proportion quantity raised ratio reason riety roots scarcely seed soil stalks starch stover success thirty thousand tillage tion tivator tons twenty twenty-five bushels UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vegetable weight wheat
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Page 24 - Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire...
Page 238 - FARMER. better acquaintance with the habits of the North American Indians, have shown that a vegetable oil answers the same purpose as animal food; that one pound of parched Indian corn, or an equal quantity of corn meal, made into bread, is more than equivalent to two pounds of fat meat. "Meal from Indian corn contains more than four times as much oleaginous matter as wheat flour; more starch, and consequently capable of producing more sugar, and though less gluttea, in other important compounds...
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Page 160 - ... first year, would destroy eighty thousand grubs. Let us suppose that the half, namely, forty thousand, are females, and it is known that they usually lay about two hundred eggs each, it will appear, that no less than eight millions have been destroyed, or prevented from being hatched, by the labors of a single family of jays. It is by reasoning in this way, that we learn to know of what importance it is to attend to the economy of nature, and to be cautious how we derange it by our short-sighted...
Page 80 - ... an admixture of rye or other flour. The oil of corn is easily convertible into animal fat by a slight change of composition, and consequently serves an excellent purpose for fattening poultry, cattle, and swine. Starch also is changed into fat, as well as the carbonaceous substances of animals, and, during its slow combustion in the circulation, gives out a portion of the heat of animal bodies ; while, in its altered state, it goes to form a part of the living frame. Dextrine and sugar act in...