. Prairie agriculture [microform] : containing a list of chemical experiments; a series of experiments on the growth of seeds; a description of how plants grow; a sketch of the formation of the prairie soil by water and ice action; an account of farming operations and of crops adapted to Manitoba; a description of diseases of crops, of insects, and of birds; an account with illustrations of the breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry adapted to Manitoba; advantages of mixed farming. Agriculture; Agriculture. 112 PRAIRIE AGRICULTURE. crop should the rMinfall be light. After the soil
. Prairie agriculture [microform] : containing a list of chemical experiments; a series of experiments on the growth of seeds; a description of how plants grow; a sketch of the formation of the prairie soil by water and ice action; an account of farming operations and of crops adapted to Manitoba; a description of diseases of crops, of insects, and of birds; an account with illustrations of the breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry adapted to Manitoba; advantages of mixed farming. Agriculture; Agriculture. 112 PRAIRIE AGRICULTURE. crop should the rMinfall be light. After the soil is thoroughly harrowed the seed is sown about the 20th of May, in drills, on the level, about thirty inches apart. When firmly established, the young plants are thinned to between twelve and fourteen inches apart in the row. Weeds are kept down with horse cultivators during the growing season. Before winter the turnips are pulled, their tops cut off, and the roots stored in a frost-proof cellar. The tops should be gathered and thrown upon the manure heap, as other- wise lying on the fields they afford a shelter for the eggs of moths which produce the cut worms of the following 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 Winnipeg : Consolidated Stationery Co.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectagriculture, bookyear
