. Land teaching; a handbook of soils, plants, gardens and grounds, for teachers and cultivators . ring the liquid into holes madeoy thrusting a sharpened stick into the top of the nests to the depthof ten or twelve inches. Close the holes and cover for an hour wet blanket. Sometimes the holes are made to a greater depth, andthe operator, standing at some distance, lights gas with a liame atend of a pole. The explosion drives the gas into the furthermost paitsof the nest. APPENDIX. TABLE I. Vitality and Germlnntlon of Seed. The first column gives the average time required for germin-atio
. Land teaching; a handbook of soils, plants, gardens and grounds, for teachers and cultivators . ring the liquid into holes madeoy thrusting a sharpened stick into the top of the nests to the depthof ten or twelve inches. Close the holes and cover for an hour wet blanket. Sometimes the holes are made to a greater depth, andthe operator, standing at some distance, lights gas with a liame atend of a pole. The explosion drives the gas into the furthermost paitsof the nest. APPENDIX. TABLE I. Vitality and Germlnntlon of Seed. The first column gives the average time required for germin-ation by tlie Stockbridge method of testing.* The second tlieaverage time for germination in the field. The third gives thevitality of seed or age after which it is not good. Barley Beans Beets Bluegrass Buckwheat Cabbage Carrot Celery Clover Corn (Field) Corn (Sweet) Cotton Cucumbers Egg Plant Flax Kohl Rabl Lettuce Melon (Mus*..; Melon (Water) Millet Mustard Oats Okra Onions Orchard Grass Parsley x-arsnip Pea Peanut Peppers Pumpkin Radish Rye Spinach Squash Timothy Tobacco Tomato Turnip \, neat. *Iut piece of board in shallow l)asin of ;fh so that edges hang in water. Lay 100 counted seedsrover with second cloth, fount sprouted seeds. LAXD TEACHING. 125 TABLE II. QUANTITY OF SEED REQUIRED. Seeds Necessary to Produce a Given Number of Plants op Sow a Given Amount of Ground. Quantity per Acre. Artichoke 1 oz to 500 plants ^4 lb. Asparagus 1 oz. to 200 plants 5 lbs. Beans, dwarf 1 quart to 150 ft. of drill IVi bushels. Beans, pole 1 quart to 200 hills y^ bushel Beet, garden 1 oz. to 200 feet of drill 10 lbs. Beet, mangel 1 oz. to 150 feet of drill G bushels. Cabbage 1 oz. to 3,000 plants - 4 oz. Carrots 1 oz. to 250 feet of drill 2Mj lbs. Cauliflower 1 oz. to 3,000 plants 5 oz. Celery 1 oz. to 10,000 plants 4 oz. Collards 1 oz to 2,500 plants 6 oz. Corn, sweet 1 quart to 500 hills 8 quarts. Cress 1 oz. to 150 feet of drill 8 lbs. Cucumbers 1 oz. to 80 hills 11^ lbs. Egg P
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