Indian Corn: Its Value, Culture, and UsesD. Appleton, 1866 - 308 pages |
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... less than three and a half millions of proprietary farmers engaged in the 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 ...
... less than three and a half millions of proprietary farmers engaged in the 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 ...
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... less than one man in ten of the agricultural proprietors , and scarcely one in forty of the farming population . It must be admitted that this ratio of readers to the whole number of cultivators is discreditably low . In an agricultural ...
... less than one man in ten of the agricultural proprietors , and scarcely one in forty of the farming population . It must be admitted that this ratio of readers to the whole number of cultivators is discreditably low . In an agricultural ...
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... less than that of Indian corn by more than three hundred million bushels . Compared with the wheat crop alone , the product of corn is very nearly five times greater ; and when the comparison is extended beyond our own country , it is ...
... less than that of Indian corn by more than three hundred million bushels . Compared with the wheat crop alone , the product of corn is very nearly five times greater ; and when the comparison is extended beyond our own country , it is ...
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... less than one and a half million bushels to over forty - two million bushels . The proportion of Indian corn to the whole num- ber of inhabitants is not a little remarkable . Com- pared with that of potatoes and wheat , it stands as ...
... less than one and a half million bushels to over forty - two million bushels . The proportion of Indian corn to the whole num- ber of inhabitants is not a little remarkable . Com- pared with that of potatoes and wheat , it stands as ...
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... less than sixty cents per bushel . But there is an important item which , though it has found no place in the tables of the census , cannot properly be omitted in computing the product of In- dian corn . It will be found that the stalk ...
... less than sixty cents per bushel . But there is an important item which , though it has found no place in the tables of the census , cannot properly be omitted in computing the product of In- dian corn . It will be found that the stalk ...
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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...