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Page 143
... material to the depth to which plant roots are able to distribute themselves . It therefore includes a wide range of material in depth and character . It may be deep or shallow , coarse or fine , loose or compact , light or dark , wet ...
... material to the depth to which plant roots are able to distribute themselves . It therefore includes a wide range of material in depth and character . It may be deep or shallow , coarse or fine , loose or compact , light or dark , wet ...
Page 144
... materials and conditions they require for growth . These include food , water , heat , air , and support ; and in addition the soil must be free from various diseases and animal enemies that , in spite of a proper supply of all the ...
... materials and conditions they require for growth . These include food , water , heat , air , and support ; and in addition the soil must be free from various diseases and animal enemies that , in spite of a proper supply of all the ...
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... material . Trees and smaller plants pry their roots into the fissures , and winds send blasts of sand and dust against the ledges . Thus by degrees the mountain of rock becomes a plain of soil . One may see these results wherever he is ...
... material . Trees and smaller plants pry their roots into the fissures , and winds send blasts of sand and dust against the ledges . Thus by degrees the mountain of rock becomes a plain of soil . One may see these results wherever he is ...
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... material . Our best soils , as a rule , have been formed in the latter way . In New York the greater part of the soil on the uplands FIG . 7. - The accumulation of sediment and the remains of swamp plants in wet places form extensive ...
... material . Our best soils , as a rule , have been formed in the latter way . In New York the greater part of the soil on the uplands FIG . 7. - The accumulation of sediment and the remains of swamp plants in wet places form extensive ...
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... material as that FIG . 8. - Muck soil , which is the decayed remains of swamp plants , is especially well adapted to certain truck crops when drained and properly fertilized which leaches from swamp and manure heaps in the form of a ...
... material as that FIG . 8. - Muck soil , which is the decayed remains of swamp plants , is especially well adapted to certain truck crops when drained and properly fertilized which leaches from swamp and manure heaps in the form of a ...
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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...