Indian Corn: Its Value, Culture, and UsesD. Appleton, 1866 - 308 pages |
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Page 36
... elements in vary- ing proportions , are not only numerous , but probably incalculable . This diversity is strikingly illustrated in the fact that adjacent fields , however similar in ap- pearance , are often found to differ , and ...
... elements in vary- ing proportions , are not only numerous , but probably incalculable . This diversity is strikingly illustrated in the fact that adjacent fields , however similar in ap- pearance , are often found to differ , and ...
Page 37
... elements , and often growing with luxuriance where other ce- reals will scarcely grow at all , we are by no means to infer that the quality of the land where it grows is a matter of indifference . On the contrary , there is no grain ...
... elements , and often growing with luxuriance where other ce- reals will scarcely grow at all , we are by no means to infer that the quality of the land where it grows is a matter of indifference . On the contrary , there is no grain ...
Page 40
... elements required for healthfulness and nu- trition . It appears from chemical analysis that Indian corn contains more oil and starch than wheat , with rather less gluten ; and therefore , while scarcely inferior to that grain in ...
... elements required for healthfulness and nu- trition . It appears from chemical analysis that Indian corn contains more oil and starch than wheat , with rather less gluten ; and therefore , while scarcely inferior to that grain in ...
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... elements needed in the body , and in just about the proportion they are required in winter , while they are nearly suited for food in warm weather . " The writer might have added with much truth , and making the case still stronger ...
... elements needed in the body , and in just about the proportion they are required in winter , while they are nearly suited for food in warm weather . " The writer might have added with much truth , and making the case still stronger ...
Page 42
... elements contained in their food , the more easily they withstand the extreme severity of the temperature . Accordingly it appears that the seal , the bear , the water - fowl , and other animals that supply food to the natives of the ...
... elements contained in their food , the more easily they withstand the extreme severity of the temperature . Accordingly it appears that the seal , the bear , the water - fowl , and other animals that supply food to the natives of the ...
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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...