Better Business, Better Farming, Better Living: Hints from a Practical Farmer to Settlers on the Projects of the United States Reclamation ServiceDepartment of the Interior, 1918 - 137 sider |
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Better Business, Better Farming, Better Living: Hints from a Practical ... Ignatius Daniel O'Donnell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1918 |
Better Business, Better Farming, Better Living: Hints from a Practical ... Ignatius Daniel O'Donnell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1918 |
Better Business, Better Farming, Better Living: Hints from a Practical ... Ignatius D. O'Donnell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1918 |
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Side 27 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.
Side 53 - One for the black-bird, one for the crow, One for the cut-worm, and two to grow.
Side 94 - Charcoal, 1 bushel. Hardwood ashes, 1 bushel. Salt, 8 pounds. Air-slaked lime, 4 pounds.
Side 51 - ... The actual record of the rainfall in much of the country between planting and harvesting of the early potato crop is between 8 and 10 inches. 482. Distribution of water. — Experiments show that potatoes need a uniform distribution of water. A five-year test in Utah demonstrated that 1 inch of water weekly, or a total of 12.8 inches during the season gave a higher yield than any other treatment. When but one irrigation was given, the best results were obtained if applied when the potatoes were...
Side 51 - The experiment brings out the importance of an even supply of soil moisture during the middle portion of the life of the potato after the tubers begin to form and before they begin to ripen.
Side 35 - The harrow as now constructed is so arranged that if properly hitched the teeth will not follow each other or " track." If the teeth do " track " change the hitch, as you are not really harrowing unless each tooth stirs its own particular strip of soil. Do not be discouraged if your field looks worse after harrowing than it did before the work.
Side 20 - Lover of Trees. TREE PLANTING ON THE RECLAMATION PROJECTS ONE of the principal criticisms we still hear about our irrigation projects and the West in general is that there is a lack of trees. People coming from the East or Central States, where trees are plentiful and of great variety, find something lacking in the West, and that something is trees. There are several reasons why the people in Western States have not heretofore started more trees, the principal reason being that the growing of trees...
Side 62 - Live stock is also needed on these farms as a means of building up and maintaining the fertility of the soil.
Side 66 - The farmer who has the good of his community in mind — and this really means his personal advancement and interest — will be willing to join the association in its efforts to promote the general welfare.
Side 22 - ... prohibiting the planting of such trees. In a matter of this kind a community can afford to wait a little time for the maturing of trees which, though more slow of growth, are more satisfactory and longer lived. In some cases it has been found practical to plant alternately a slow-growing and a fast-growing tree, and as the slow-growing trees reach sufficient size to furnish shade and beauty the quick-growing trees are cut out. The advantage of having a forest plantation of one or another kind...