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Page 145
... clay and even of stone ; how the rivulets after a rain gully the hill- side and leave a mass of gravel or mud where the water comes to rest . Then note the plants that spring up , and observe their roots - how they thread their way ...
... clay and even of stone ; how the rivulets after a rain gully the hill- side and leave a mass of gravel or mud where the water comes to rest . Then note the plants that spring up , and observe their roots - how they thread their way ...
Page 146
... clay in one place , silt in another , and various grades of sand , gravel , and stones in still other places . These different characters give the soils different relations to crop growth . Soils formed by water are , in general , the ...
... clay in one place , silt in another , and various grades of sand , gravel , and stones in still other places . These different characters give the soils different relations to crop growth . Soils formed by water are , in general , the ...
Page 149
... clay pipe , in the bottom to permit the water to percolate away . Over 10,000 square miles of farm lands in New York require drains to render them most profitable . When the excess of water has been cared for by either natural or arti ...
... clay pipe , in the bottom to permit the water to percolate away . Over 10,000 square miles of farm lands in New York require drains to render them most profitable . When the excess of water has been cared for by either natural or arti ...
Page 151
... clay soil is fine tex- tured and may be too compact and hard . The farmer cannot change the texture of the soil . He must make the best of it . But the farmer can do good work in changing the structure of the soil . One cannot greatly ...
... clay soil is fine tex- tured and may be too compact and hard . The farmer cannot change the texture of the soil . He must make the best of it . But the farmer can do good work in changing the structure of the soil . One cannot greatly ...
Page 152
... clay soil is generally known as a cold soil , although clay itself is not colder than sand or gravel . But clay generally holds more water than sand , and it is this.larger amount of water that renders it colder ; consequently , any ...
... clay soil is generally known as a cold soil , although clay itself is not colder than sand or gravel . But clay generally holds more water than sand , and it is this.larger amount of water that renders it colder ; consequently , any ...
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Page 111 - DONALD REDDICK, Ph.D., Plant Pathology. EDWARD G. MONTGOMERY. MA, Farm Crops. WILLIAM A. RILEY, Ph.D., Entomology. MERRITT W. HARPER, MS, Animal Husbandry. JAMES A. BIZZELL, Ph.D.. Soil Technology. GLENN W. HERRICK, BSA, Economic Entomology. HOWARD W. RILEY, ME, Farm Mechanics. CYRUS R.
Page 137 - CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION THE FOLLOWING BULLETINS AND CIRCULARS ARE AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THOSE RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK STATE WHO MAY DESIRE THEM...
Page 111 - Dairy Industry. EMMONS W. LELAND, BSA, Soil Technology. CHARLES T. GREGORY, BS in Agr., Plant Pathology. WALTER W. FISK, BS in Agr., Dairy Industry.
Page 78 - Museum; in this, the cooperating institutions are very materially aided by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 76 - F1rst stage made that each pair of .-.-./ strands is joined in a separate place in the rope instead of all at one place. The greatest number of strands at any place in the spliced rope is thus four instead of six.
Page 184 - Methods of determining the value of timber in the farm woodlot 28 Recent New York State Laws giving relief from taxation on lands used for forestry purposes 40 County, town, and village forests...
Page 418 - ELMER S. SAVAGE, MSA, Ph.D.. Animal Husbandry. LEWIS KNUDSON, Ph.D., Plant Physiology. KENNETH C. LIVERMORE, BS in Agr., Farm Management. ALVIN C. BEAL, Ph.D., Floriculture. MORTIER F. BARRUS, Ph.D., Plant Pathology. CLYDE H. MYERS, MS, Ph.D., Plant Breeding. GEORGE W. TAILBY, JR., BSA, Superintendent of Live Stock. EDWARD S. GUTHRIE, MS in Agr., Ph.D., Dairy Industry. JAMES C. BRADLEY, Ph.D., Entomology. PAUL WORK, BS, AB, Vegetable Gardening. JOHN BENTLEY, JR., BS, MF, Forestry.
Page 111 - Farm Practice and Farm Crops. JAMES E. RICE, BSA. Poultry Husbandry. GEORGE W. CAVANAUGH, BS. Chemistry. HERBERT H. WHETZEL. AB, MA, Plant Pathology. ELMER O. PIPPIN, BSA,Soil Technology.
Page 60 - FIG. 89 ample size so that when placed over the end of the scaffold plank it will hang loosely below it, as in Fig. 87. Draw to the left the rope in the left hand in Fig. 87, and to the right the rope in the right hand in the same figure, thus gaining the position shown in Fig. 88. Turn the plank over, draw the ropes up above it, join the short end to the long rope by an overhand bowline (Fig. 138), pull the bowline tight, at the same time adjusting the length of the two ropes so that they hold the...
Page 50 - ... rope 8-inch wheels should be used; the wheels in the pulley blocks should be equally large or larger. In order to give economical service, rope used for transmitting power should be run over pulleys not smaller in diameter than forty times the diameter of the rope. As mentioned above, the chafing in a four-strand rope is less than that in a three-strand rope, and for this reason if small pulleys are absolutely necessary or are already on hand a four-strand rope should be used. Weakening effect...