. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. Fig. 4. ancestors Courtesy of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. developed, better farm tools invented, better methods of tillage dis- covered, new ways of killing crop pests learned, The wooden plow of our early better ways of harvest- ing, preserving, and marketing the crops, and dozens of other things. A good example of the way plants have been improved by study and careful breeding is found in the sugar beet. The best sugar beets in 1812 yielded only eight pounds of sugar per hundred pounds of beets. So much better ki
. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. Fig. 4. ancestors Courtesy of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. developed, better farm tools invented, better methods of tillage dis- covered, new ways of killing crop pests learned, The wooden plow of our early better ways of harvest- ing, preserving, and marketing the crops, and dozens of other things. A good example of the way plants have been improved by study and careful breeding is found in the sugar beet. The best sugar beets in 1812 yielded only eight pounds of sugar per hundred pounds of beets. So much better kinds have been bred that the average for the United States in 1907 was twelve and nine- tenths pounds of sugar per hundred pounds of beets, and an especially fine kind gave twenty-two pounds per Fig. 5. TheV'Oil Pidl" Gang Plow which, in a demonstration in 1911, with three engines, did the work of 100 men, 200 horses, and 50 plows, plowing 14 acres an hour at a fuel cost of 61 cents per acre. Courtesy of the Oliver Plow 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 Kyle, Edwin Jackson. [from old catalog]; Ellis, Alexander Caswell, 1871- [from old catalog] joint author. New York, Chicago [etc. ] C. Scribner's sons
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