Agriculture for Beginners

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Author

Stevens, Frank Lincoln, 1871-1934

Title

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition

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Language

English

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S: Agriculture

Subject

Agriculture

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Text

eBook-No.

20772

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20772

Release Date

March 8, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS — BY
2. 2.CHARLES WILLIAM BURKETT
3. 3.FRANK LINCOLN STEVENS — AND
4. 4.DANIEL HARVEY HILL — REVISED EDITION
5. 5.PREFACE
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.TO THE TEACHER
8. 8.AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS
9. 9.THE SOIL — SECTION I. ORIGIN OF THE SOIL — SECTION II. TILLAGE OF THE SOIL — SECTION III. THE MOISTURE OF THE SOIL — SECTION IV. HOW THE WATER RISES IN THE SOIL — SECTION V. DRAINING THE SOIL — SECTION VI. IMPROVING THE SOIL — SECTION VII. MANURING THE SOIL — Left , clay subsoil; Center , same, with fertilizer; Right , same, with humus — In left top pot, no plant food; in left bottom pot, plant food scanty; in both right pots, all elements of plant food present
10. 10.THE SOIL AND THE PLANT — SECTION VIII. ROOTS — SECTION IX. HOW THE PLANT FEEDS FROM THE SOIL — SECTION X. ROOT-TUBERCLES — SECTION XI. THE ROTATION OF CROPS — An Illustration of Crop-Rotation
11. 11.THE PLANT — SECTION XII. HOW A PLANT FEEDS FROM THE AIR — SECTION XIII. THE SAP CURRENT — SECTION XIV. THE FLOWER AND THE SEED — SECTION XV. POLLINATION — SECTION XVI. CROSSES, HYBRIDS, AND CROSS-POLLINATION — SECTION XVII. PROPAGATION BY BUDS — Brighton pollinated by 1, Salem; 2, Creveling; 3, Lindley; 4, Brighton; 5, Self-pollinated; 6, Nectar; 7, Jefferson; 8, Niagara — Plants to be propagated from Buds — SECTION XVIII. PLANT SEEDING — SECTION XIX. SELECTING SEED CORN — Boone County white corn on left, and original type, from which it was developed by selection, on right — SECTION XX. WEEDS — SECTION XXI. SEED PURITY AND VITALITY — Tube 1 represents one pound of redtop grass as bought; Tube 2, amount of pure redtop grass seeds in Tube 1; Tube 3, amount of chaff and dirt in Tube 1; Tube 4, amount of weed seeds in Tube 1; Tube 5, amount of total waste in Tube 1; Tube 6, amount of pure germinable seeds in Tube 1
12. 12.CHAPTER IV — HOW TO RAISE A FRUIT TREE — SECTION XXII. GRAFTING — SECTION XXIII. BUDDING — SECTION XXIV. PLANTING AND PRUNING
13. 13.HORTICULTURE — SECTION XXV. MARKET-GARDENING — SECTION XXVI. FLOWER GARDENING
14. 14.THE DISEASES OF PLANTS — SECTION XXVII. THE CAUSE AND NATURE OF PLANT DISEASE — SECTION XXVIII. YEAST AND BACTERIA — SECTION XXIX. PREVENTION OF PLANT DISEASE — SECTION XXX. SOME SPECIAL PLANT DISEASES — All the other plants in this field died. This one row lived because it could resist the cotton wilt — Note the difference in foliage and fruit on the sprayed and unsprayed halves of the tree, and the difference in yield shown below
15. 15.ORCHARD, GARDEN, AND FIELD INSECTS — SECTION XXXI. INSECTS IN GENERAL — SECTION XXXII. ORCHARD INSECTS — SECTION XXXIII. GARDEN AND FIELD INSECTS — SECTION XXXIV. THE COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL — Fig. 181. Map showing Distribution of the Cotton-Boll Weevil in 1913
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII — FARM CROPS — SECTION XXXV. COTTON — SECTION XXXVI. TOBACCO — SECTION XXXVII. WHEAT — The yield of the lower field, forty-five bushels per acre, is due to intelligent farming — SECTION XXXVIII. CORN — SECTION XXXIX. PEANUTS — SECTION XL. SWEET POTATOES — SECTION XLI. WHITE, OR IRISH, POTATOES — SECTION XLII. OATS — SECTION XLIII. RYE — SECTION XLIV. BARLEY — SECTION XLV. SUGAR PLANTS — SECTION XLVI. HEMP AND FLAX — SECTION XLVII. BUCKWHEAT — SECTION XLVIII. RICE — SECTION XLIX. THE TIMBER CROP — SECTION L. THE FARM GARDEN — Fig. 225. How to lay out the Garden [1]
17. 17.FEED STUFFS — SECTION LI. GRASSES — SECTION LII. LEGUMES — Descriptive Table
18. 18.CHAPTER X — DOMESTIC ANIMALS — SECTION LIII. HORSES — Diagram shows the proper shape of the fore and hind legs of a horse. When the straight lines divide the legs equally, the leg action is straight and regular — Proportions of a Horse — SECTION LIV. CATTLE — SECTION LV. SHEEP — SECTION LVI. SWINE — SECTION LVII. FARM POULTRY — SECTION LVIII. BEE CULTURE — SECTION LIX. WHY WE FEED ANIMALS — What these Compounds do in the Body
19. 19.FARM DAIRYING — SECTION LX. THE DAIRY COW — SECTION LXI. MILK, CREAM, CHURNING, AND BUTTER — Dairy Rules — SECTION LXII. HOW MILK SOURS — At the left, pure milk; at the right, milk after standing in a warm room for a few hours in a dirty dish, showing, besides the fat-globules, many forms of bacteria — SECTION LXIII. THE BABCOCK MILK-TESTER — The tester, acid, acid measure, test-bottle, and thermometer at bottom; filling the pipette on right; adding the acid and measuring the fat at top
20. 20.MISCELLANEOUS — SECTION LXIV. GROWING FEED STUFFS ON THE FARM — SECTION LXV. FARM TOOLS AND MACHINES — SECTION LXVI. LIMING THE LAND — SECTION LXVII. BIRDS — SECTION LXVIII. FARMING ON DRY LANDS — SECTION LXIX. IRRIGATION — Methods of Irrigating Crops — SECTION LXX. LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
21. 21.SPRAYING MIXTURES — FOR BITING INSECTS — FOR SOFT-BODIED SUCKING INSECTS — FOR FUNGOUS DISEASES — SPRAYS FOR BOTH FUNGOUS AND INSECT PESTS — Self-Boiled Lime-Sulphur Wash
22. 22.GLOSSARY
23. 23.INDEX

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