. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Pig. 116. ' 'The irrigator,'' pictured in 1823. " This machine Is cal- culated to -water meadow- grounds, cotton and provision land, and with a boy and horse, ought to water one or two acres per day. according to the dis- tance of the river from the ; " No. 1, The Cask; 2, The Axle; 3, Felloes; 4, Bung; 5, Plug holes at both ends; 6, Seat for the ;. Fig. 117. Woodside's macliine for harrowing, sowing and rolling, 1833. The seed
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Pig. 116. ' 'The irrigator,'' pictured in 1823. " This machine Is cal- culated to -water meadow- grounds, cotton and provision land, and with a boy and horse, ought to water one or two acres per day. according to the dis- tance of the river from the ; " No. 1, The Cask; 2, The Axle; 3, Felloes; 4, Bung; 5, Plug holes at both ends; 6, Seat for the ;. Fig. 117. Woodside's macliine for harrowing, sowing and rolling, 1833. The seeder or sieve is at H; har- row at B; roller at I. " From the above it will be perceived that I can of a truth affirm, that I can sit in the front of my cart, under a canvas covering, sow the grain, harrow and roll it in, without exposure to the sun, leaving the ground without any impression of the horses' feet, my own feet, or the cart ; pounds through the use of leguminous plants. These plants have the power, by means of their root nodules, of fixing the free atmospheric nitrogen of the soil; and the new compounds are turned back to the soil in condition to be utilized by plants that do not have the power to appropriate the nitrogen of the air. Since nitro-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. ed. New York, The Macmillan company
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