Bulletin, Issues 57-99The Station., 1903 |
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... productive of any of the fruit - bearing plants . There are many varieties that are well adapted to the soil and climate and have been grown here long enough to prove their worth . Many new and promising varieties are being introduced ...
... productive of any of the fruit - bearing plants . There are many varieties that are well adapted to the soil and climate and have been grown here long enough to prove their worth . Many new and promising varieties are being introduced ...
Page 111
... productive than those that come from an arm or trunk . The position , number , and length of the renewals will depend on the system of training adopted . The strongest unbranched canes should be used where choice is left . The canes ...
... productive than those that come from an arm or trunk . The position , number , and length of the renewals will depend on the system of training adopted . The strongest unbranched canes should be used where choice is left . The canes ...
Page 160
... productive . This is especially true of the peach , plum and apricot . The late frosts are more liable to destroy the crop while the trees are in blossom on low land . The lowland also maintains better conditions for the plant diseases ...
... productive . This is especially true of the peach , plum and apricot . The late frosts are more liable to destroy the crop while the trees are in blossom on low land . The lowland also maintains better conditions for the plant diseases ...
Page 170
... productive . There is not one man in a dozen who will cut out the trees that are bearing fruit before they have done permanent harm to the apple trees . This applies as well to planting blackberries and the like between orchard trees of ...
... productive . There is not one man in a dozen who will cut out the trees that are bearing fruit before they have done permanent harm to the apple trees . This applies as well to planting blackberries and the like between orchard trees of ...
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... productivity of the crop and on certain restricted areas , failure is certain . These are on soils where the rock is near the surface or that hold water to the degree of saturation for several days at a time . Where a stiff impervious ...
... productivity of the crop and on certain restricted areas , failure is certain . These are on soils where the rock is near the surface or that hold water to the degree of saturation for several days at a time . Where a stiff impervious ...
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Page 10 - Suggestions regarding the types of investigation to be made: ... it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or...
Page 10 - ... varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such...
Page 10 - ... varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation ; the analysis of soils and water ; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds ; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals ; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese ; and...
Page 106 - Ammoniacal Solution of Copper Carbonate Copper carbonate, 6 ounces. Ammonia, about 3 pints. Water, 50 gallons. « Dissolve the copper carbonate in the ammonia and add the water. Caution: — Use no more ammonia than is required to dissolve the copper carbonate. Ammonia is variable in strength, and the amount required must be tested in practice. 4. Soda Bordeaux Mixture Copper sulfate, 4 pounds. Commercial Caustic Soda, Soda lye, (Sodium hydroxid) slightly in excess so that mixture is alkaline —...
Page 106 - Water to make 50 gallons. Dissolve the copper sulfate in about two gallons of hot water, contained in a wooden vessel, by stirring, or even better by suspending the sulfate, contained in a cheese cloth sack, in a large bucketful of cold water. With the cold water and cheese cloth bag a longer time is required. Pour the sulfate solution into the barrel or tank used for spraying, and fill one-third to one-half full of water. Slake the lime by addition of a small quantity of water, and when slaked cover...
Page 20 - So the animals we experimented on were affected by the living bacilli of human tuberculosis exactly as they would have been by dead ones ; they were absolutely insusceptible to them. The result was utterly different, however, when the same experiment was made on cattle free from tuberculosis with tubercle bacilli that came from the lungs of an animal suffering from bovine tuberculosis.
Page 60 - DIVERSIFIED FARMING IN OKLAHOMA. Ten years of experience in a new and untried section of country. such as was Oklahoma so short a time ago, has developed and indicated to a great extent its possibilities. The peculiarities of soil and climate are, in a measure, known and understood by those who till the soil, sow the seed, and reap the harvest. Perhaps the greatest single feature that is most fully recognized is the unusual number and variety of products that may be grown and matured. The farmers...
Page 64 - Elaine, and Noble counties, but almost every county has a small acreage. The extent of the crop in the counties named is due to the fact that it has been grown there for a longer time than elsewhere, and probably not because of any special climatic or soil conditions. This crop could be extended with profit to other sections of the Territory. The average yield is 15 to 18 bushels per acre, the crop selling at ll per bushel.
Page 107 - Dissolve one-half pound hard soap in one gallon of water (preferably soft water) and while still boiling hot, remove from the fire and add two gallons of kerosene. Stir the mixture violently by driving it through a force pump back into the vessel until it becomes a creamy mass that will not separate. This requires usually from five to ten minutes. The emulsion is then ready to be diluted with water and applied. For the common scale insects and hard bodied insects, like the chinch bug, use one part...