Stock For Apples
Categories: Fruit GrowingDo you recommend French seedling stock as greatly to be preferred to
that grown in this country?
French seedling stock is generally used because it is graded and
furnished in uniform sizes; also, because it can usually be purchased
for less than seedlings can be grown under our labor conditions. Locally
grown apple seedlings are apt to be irregular in size and, as already
stated, cost more than the properly graded imported stock.
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Sowing The Seed
Partial failure with August seeding is due to faulty methods. We are accustomed to broadcasting clover seed on top of the wheat fields and obtaining a stand of plants. A majority of the seeds do not become buried in the soil, or only very slightly, an... Speltz
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There seems to be two distinct kinds of cactus: One for forage, the other for fruit. It is claimed by some people that the spineless cactus is more valuable as a forage plant than alfalfa. What is your opinion? There are many varieties of smoo... Spineless Cactus Fruit
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When farm conditions make it feasible to draw and spread manure fast as made, the danger of heavy loss in storing is escaped. There is evidence that no appreciable escape of fertility occurs when manure is spread on land that is not covered with ice. ... Square Or Triangular Planting
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... Steamed Bone
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I have a horse that was bruised on the ankle about two years ago. This is now producing an enlargement of the bone and stiffness of the joint. Apply the following liniment: Sulphuric ether, 1 ounce; tinct. iodine, 1 ounce; pulv. camphor, 1 oun... Stock For Apples
Do you recommend French seedling stock as greatly to be preferred to that grown in this country? French seedling stock is generally used because it is graded and furnished in uniform sizes; also, because it can usually be purchased for less t... Stone-lime
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We desire to store two or three thousand boxes of apples for three or four months and propose to do it in this way: Make an excavation in dry earth, putting at the bottom of the excavation straw. Upon this straw place the apples, then dry straw ... Storage Of Seed Potatoes
We need potatoes for late planting and have found a good lot which is being held in cold storage at temperatures from 34 to 36 degrees F. They have not been there long, however. Would that hurt them for seed, and also how long could they be safe... Storing Cut Alfalfa Hay
We are planning on cutting our next season's crop of alfalfa with a feed cutter and storing it in a barn for winter feeding. The hay must, of course, be thoroughly cured, because of the great danger of heating in a tight mass. A. Balfour says:... Storing Nitrogen
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What is the best method of storing stock beets and stock carrots in this climate? We can let them remain in the ground and grow until February or ... Stover
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Do you consider straw good to plow under for humus, and which kind, wheat, oat, or barley straw, is best? Straw, by its decay in the soil, produces humus and, therefore acts in the same way just as does the decay of other forms of vegetation. ... Strawberries In Succession
Is there any reason, in strawberry culture, when the vines are removed at the end of the fourth year, why the ground may not be thoroughly plowed and again planted to strawberries? It is theoretically possible to grow strawberries continuously... Strawberries With Perfect Flowers
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