. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . oisture helpsto keep the leaves the quantity ofwater transpiredthrough the leavesamounts to from 200to 800 pounds for eachpound of dry matterproduced by the plant,a good crop of grainor of forage will Figuio ir. Corn accurately drawn from nicas- Cxlialc frOm itS IcaVCSurements made in 1886 repres
. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . oisture helpsto keep the leaves the quantity ofwater transpiredthrough the leavesamounts to from 200to 800 pounds for eachpound of dry matterproduced by the plant,a good crop of grainor of forage will Figuio ir. Corn accurately drawn from nicas- Cxlialc frOm itS IcaVCSurements made in 1886 representing corn (1) at , . ^, ten, (2) twenty, (3) thirty and (1) forty days after dUrUlg the SCaSOU SCV-planting. The drawing represents a width of 4 , . , - • r ii feet 6 The whorl of roots ^vU!ch spring eral UlCheS Ot raniiall ,from the seed nr seminal whorl, as at 1. and the . rr • whorls which arise from the bases of the sheaths that IS, SUfficient WatCrof tlie first, second and even the third and fourth leaves or blades, strike out through the soil in the 4-0 COVCr the SOll tO thcearly, cool, moist spring season in a nearly hori-zontal direction. Those spruiging from the fourth. rl/ari+Vi nf Cii^\TP-r^\ inrVlPClater nodes or joints go nearly UCpill Ui SCVCldl Extent of roots of fifth, sixth and lat downward, so as to hunt better for water in thedrier, warmer midsummer. The early and espe-cially the later roots springing from the stem— ^__„_ TU a t-/-vf>fc i-if stem roots—send out many branches with sub- 1,1 Op5>. 1 UC lUULs ui branches reaching evei-y part of the soil. The r 11 „„„ roots of corn planted in hills 4 feet apart each OUr helCl CrOpS areway. even in the young stage, as at 4. have no , , . trouble in reaching all parts of the soil between mUCh lOUgCT, mUCU the rows, often overlapping 1 or 2 feet with the ^ roots of the adjacent rows. uiorc numcrous, spreaci farther, and penetrate into the soil to greater depthsthan is genera
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