Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work; . eight inches apart in arow, by means of a specially devised tool, similar tothe rayonneur which is used for planting potatoes; andthe rows, also eight inches apart, were alternately givento the big and to the smaller seeds. One-fourth part ofan acre having been planted in this way, with seeds ob-tained from both early and late ears, crops correspondingto bushels per acre for the first series, and * Upon this method of selecting seeds opinions are, however, atvariance amongst agr
Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work; . eight inches apart in arow, by means of a specially devised tool, similar tothe rayonneur which is used for planting potatoes; andthe rows, also eight inches apart, were alternately givento the big and to the smaller seeds. One-fourth part ofan acre having been planted in this way, with seeds ob-tained from both early and late ears, crops correspondingto bushels per acre for the first series, and * Upon this method of selecting seeds opinions are, however, atvariance amongst agrieulturists. lOO FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. bushels for the second series, were obtained ; even thesmall grains gave in this experiment as much as 62 bushels respectively* The crop was thus more than doubled by the choiceof seeds and by planting them separately eight inchesapart. It corresponded in Dessprfezs experiments to600 grains obtained on the average from each grain sown;and one-tenth or one-eleventh part of an acre was suffi-cient in such case to grow the eight and a half bushels. Fig. 5—Wheat Plants, a, Has given 17 ears from each plantedgrain. Soil manured with chemical manure only, i, Has given25 ears from each planted grain. Soil manured with both stableand chemical manure. of wheat which are required on the average for theannual bread food per head of a population whichwould chiefly live on bread. Prof. Grandeau, Director of the French StationAgronomique de IEst, has also made, since 1886, ex- * The straw was eighty-three and seventy-seven cwts. per acre in thefirst case; fifty-nine and forty-nine cwts. in the second case (Garola, hcsCeyeales). In his above-mentioned paper on Thin Seeding, MajorHallett mentions a crop at the rate of iq8 bushels to the acre, obtainedby planting nine inches apart, TEIE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE. lOI periments on Major Halletts method, and he obtainedsimilar results. In a proper soil, he wrote, onesingle grain of wh
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