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Page 422
... seasons and the vital processes of the living organism are stubborn facts , unshapable as yet by man with all his novel powers . But even if the best farming practice is still a step beyond its complete explanation by science , yet the ...
... seasons and the vital processes of the living organism are stubborn facts , unshapable as yet by man with all his novel powers . But even if the best farming practice is still a step beyond its complete explanation by science , yet the ...
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... season , and the kind of crop grown , but these differences can generally be disregarded . The object in handling all kinds of heavy soil should be to develop a fine , friable , granular tilth which is easy to manipulate and efficient ...
... season , and the kind of crop grown , but these differences can generally be disregarded . The object in handling all kinds of heavy soil should be to develop a fine , friable , granular tilth which is easy to manipulate and efficient ...
Page 164
... seasons of careful tillage will be required to overcome the bad effect of such practice and the high temperature that result , cause a wasteful decay of organic matter . While heavy clay , on the other hand , may have a larger total ...
... seasons of careful tillage will be required to overcome the bad effect of such practice and the high temperature that result , cause a wasteful decay of organic matter . While heavy clay , on the other hand , may have a larger total ...
Page 173
... season . Usually , it is advisable to increase the depth of plowing gradually at the rate of cne half to one inch per year . This is best done in the fall . The deeper the soil is plowed , the more thoroughly it is pulverized . FIG . 96 ...
... season . Usually , it is advisable to increase the depth of plowing gradually at the rate of cne half to one inch per year . This is best done in the fall . The deeper the soil is plowed , the more thoroughly it is pulverized . FIG . 96 ...
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... season or crop or equipment , which require peculiar treatment , so that always the purpose to be accomplished should determine the use of an implement . If the soil were a little too wet it might be thrown up in high ridges with a ...
... season or crop or equipment , which require peculiar treatment , so that always the purpose to be accomplished should determine the use of an implement . If the soil were a little too wet it might be thrown up in high ridges with 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...