. Elements of agriculture, southern and western. Agriculture; Agriculture. 122 ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE States are sweet potatoes, sugar cane, and fall Irish pota- toes. Sweet potatoes and cane do their best growing in September and October, when there is nearly always a deficient moisture supply. In fact, the states east of Texas are drier in these two months than the country. Fig. 40. — Irrigating between Rows along the one hundredth meridian. With irrigation there is little doubt that a hundred bushels can be added to the yield of each acre of potatoes and one hundred gallons of sirup for ea
. Elements of agriculture, southern and western. Agriculture; Agriculture. 122 ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE States are sweet potatoes, sugar cane, and fall Irish pota- toes. Sweet potatoes and cane do their best growing in September and October, when there is nearly always a deficient moisture supply. In fact, the states east of Texas are drier in these two months than the country. Fig. 40. — Irrigating between Rows along the one hundredth meridian. With irrigation there is little doubt that a hundred bushels can be added to the yield of each acre of potatoes and one hundred gallons of sirup for each acre of cane. Cane and potatoes both grow in wide rows and on ridges; water can be easily applied to each crop, by causing it to run along the middles be- tween the rows. Whenever there is enough rain, tlie fall crop of Irish potatoes, planted about August in tlie Gulf States, makes quite as large and profitable a yield as the. 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 Welborn, W. C; Ness, H; Sanborn, Charles Emerson, 1877-; Marstellar, R. P. New York, The Macmillan company
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