Root Crops ; Sweet Potatoes ; White Potatoes ; Onions and Other Bulbs ; Cabbage ; Cauliflower ; Miscellaneous Cole Crops ; Pot Herbs ; CeleryInternational Textbook Company, 1914 - Cole crops |
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Page 41 - What is recognized in the fertilizer trade to-day as a high-grade fertilizer would contain 4 per cent of nitrogen, 8 per cent of phosphoric acid, and...
Page 69 - downy mildew " has been given to the potato rot disease trom the fact that there appears, under favorable circumstances, a downy or mouldy growth upon the under surface of the leaves. This is white in color and may be of considerable density. The upper surface of the foliage does not show it, but whenever this frost-like growth appears on the under side, it is almost certain that the potato rot fungus is present, especially if the other conditions mentioned above are also present. This external...
Page 43 - They have found that a fertilizer containing 4 per cent, of nitrogen, 8 per cent, of available phosphoric acid and 10 per cent, of actual potash is well adapted to their conditions for growing potatoes.
Page 40 - Being one of the hardiest of spring vegetables, the seed may be sown as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. A light, sandy soil is the best on which to grow Beets to perfection, but any well tilled garden soil will raise satisfactory crops.
Page 31 - ... although the season was one of the driest known in that section for years. After the last cultivation a crop of cowpeas was planted to act as a cover crop. A fine stand was secured making a thick mulch which was plowed under the following spring. In the spring of 1911 the entire orchard was covered with commercial fertilizer, analyzing 3 per cent Nitrogen, 8 per cent Phosphoric Acid and 10 per cent Potash, at the rate of 500 pounds per acre. The following spring, 1912, the entire orchard was...
Page 10 - ... of about 3 per cent, of nitrogen, 8 per cent, of phosphoric acid and 10 per cent, of potash. Select Well-drained Soil. • Alfalfa comes to us from the semi-arid regions of southern Asia. To be sure it has...
Page 32 - The thermographs were kept in operation continuously from the time the field work began early in the spring until the latter part of June or the first of July.
Page 12 - The mixture was calculated to contain 4 per cent nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid and 7 per cent potash.
Page 12 - For the potatoes, season of 1915, fertilizer containing about 3 per cent, nitrogen, 8 per cent, of phosphoric acid and 5 per cent, of potash was used at the rate of 400 pounds per acre.
Page 23 - Vic. Trevett, and myself selected the location and named the place Lewiston, in the latter part of May or the first part of June, in 1861, in honor of Captain Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition.