
Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
by Daniel Harvey Hill Frank Lincoln Stevens Charles William Burkett
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- AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS
- CHARLES WILLIAM BURKETT
- FRANK LINCOLN STEVENS
- AND
- DANIEL HARVEY HILL
- REVISED EDITION
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- TO THE TEACHER
- AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS
- CHAPTER I 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
- CHAPTER II 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
- CHAPTER III 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
- CHAPTER IV
- HOW TO RAISE A FRUIT TREE
- SECTION XXII. GRAFTING
- SECTION XXIII. BUDDING
- SECTION XXIV. PLANTING AND PRUNING
- CHAPTER V HORTICULTURE
- SECTION XXV. MARKET-GARDENING
- SECTION XXVI. FLOWER GARDENING
- CHAPTER VI 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
- CHAPTER VII 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
- 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]
- CHAPTER IX FEED STUFFS
- SECTION LI. GRASSES
- SECTION LII. LEGUMES
- Descriptive Table
- 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
- CHAPTER XI 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
- CHAPTER XII 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
- APPENDIX 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
- GLOSSARY
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