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Originally published in 1901, this book contains a guide to the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history and botany. Contents: Historical Sketch; Botany; Cultural Varieties; Seed Growing; The Raising Of Plants; Selection Of Plants; The Soil and Its Preparation; Planting; Cultivation; Fertilizers and Fertilizing; Harvesting and Marketing; Forcing; Preserving Asparagus; Injurious Insects; Fungus...

This comprehensive guide to gardening for profit comprises six thorough and detailed sections by various experts on the subject. It is extensively-illustrated with black and white drawings, forming a complete how to guide. Commercial Horticulture takes a comprehensive and informative look at the subject, and is a fascinating read for any gardener. Contents Include: Vegetable Production for the Markets, Commercial Fruit-growing, Commercial Glasshouse...

This book contains a detailed treatise on producing farm crops, with information on soil, cultivation, grain crops, forage crops, potatoes, and much more. Full of case studies, historical information, and handy tips, this text constitutes an invaluable resource for farmers and is one not to be missed by readers of antiquarian farming literature. The chapters of this book include: 'The Principal Farm Crops', 'Market Garden Crops', 'Graded Apples',...

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to the various types of machinery used in corn picking and shelling. It offers detailed descriptions of the machinery in question, along with handy information on how they are best used, problems that may be encountered during their operation, and a wealth of other information conducive to successful corn picking. Complete with detailed illustrations and helpful graphs and tables, this text will...

This is a hands-on, practical guide to general and specific practices in oil palm nurseries to produce healthy, vigorous and uniform plants ready for field planting. There are two nursery stages, pre-nursery and main nursery. The pre-nursery receives both germinated seeds and tissue culture produced plantlets (ramets) which are planted in a relatively small area in which shade and humidity can be controlled. Once young plants are established they...

Los sistemas productivos agropecuarios impactan de manera local, rural, regional y global. En la actualidad, las formas de vida existentes, las condiciones del planeta tierra y sus interacciones con el resto del universo, implican que hoy más que nunca se generen situaciones y actividades que permitan reflexionar, analizar y crear estrategias que lleven a prolongar la existencia de una forma sostenible y saludable de la humanidad y de todos los seres...

This vintage text contains a detailed treatise on the chemistry of agricultural fungicides and insecticides. The huge financial loss associated with the loss of crop due to insects and fungi has led to the artificial control of the pests with a large number of substances - and it is the purpose of this volume to set out the nature and chemical properties of these substances. Full of practical information suitable for both the student and the agricultural...

This text contains a detailed guide to growing cereals, with information on cultivation, harvesting, and the general care and maintenance of various cereal crops. This volume contains all the fundamental information a farmer would need to know about the cultivation of cereals, from tackling diseases and maximising yields, to manuring and climate influences. Written in plain, concise language and full of helpful tips, this text is perfect for those...

This text comprises a comprehensive guide to cereal grasses, including information on growing corn, wheat, barley and oats. Full of statistical information, scientific explanations, comments on soil requirements, equipment, machinery, sowing techniques, and much more besides, this text constitutes an invaluable resource for farmers. It will also be of interest to those looking for general information on cereal production, and makes for a worthy addition...

This antique volume contains a detailed treatise on crop rotation on dry farms. Discussed within this text are such topics as: the importance of rotation in dry areas, methodology, equipment, scientific reasoning, pitfalls, rotation tips, and much more. Although old, most of the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of as much value to the modern farmer as it was to those contemporary with the original publication of this text. The...