item: #1 of 79 id: 11238 author: Pinchot, Gifford title: The Fight for Conservation date: None words: 23274 flesch: 63 summary: The present strong movement to prevent the political control of public men, law-courts, and legislatures by great commercial enterprises will either flash in the pan or it will succeed; it will leave either the man or the dollar in control. The first is honesty in public men, without which no popular government can long succeed. keywords: business; conservation; country; forest; good; interests; law; life; man; men; nation; people; power; public; resources; service; states; united; use; water cache: 11238.txt plain text: 11238.txt item: #2 of 79 id: 11555 author: Coulton, Miss title: Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money We Made by It date: None words: 24457 flesch: 75 summary: Perhaps the allusion this lady made to the shop may puzzle the London reader, but in country places, where more butter is made in a gentleman's family than is required for the consumption of the household, it is sent to--what is frequently--_the_ shop of the place, and sold for a penny per pound less than the price for which it is retailed by the shopkeeper. If any lady who has one or two cows will instruct her servant to follow our directions, she will always be sure of good butter, with very little trouble. keywords: butter; churn; cost; country; cows; cream; day; farm; garden; half; house; london; making; milk; months; pigs; poultry; time; water cache: 11555.txt plain text: 11555.txt item: #3 of 79 id: 12140 author: Varro, Marcus Terentius title: Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro date: None words: 95937 flesch: 67 summary: It is fair to the average Italian farmer of the present day who is held up by the economists to scorn because he does not produce more than eleven bushels of wheat to the acre, to record that in Columella's time, when agriculture had declined as compared with Varro's experience, the average yield of grain in many parts of Italy did not exceed four for one (_Columella_, III, 3), or say seven and a half bushels to the acre. The _versus_ is one hundred feet square: the _jugerum_ is the area containing two square _actus_: keywords: age; agriculture; animals; axius; barley; bees; beginning; birds; book; breeding; care; cato; cattle; corn; country; crops; day; days; different; dogs; end; farm; farmer; fed; feed; feeding; feet; fish; flock; food; footnote; goats; good; grain; greek; ground; hand; harvest; hive; honey; horses; house; husbandry; iii; italy; kind; land; left; life; manure; master; men; milk; modern; new; number; olive; pigs; place; plant; pliny; plough; practice; profit; r.r; respect; roman; says; scrofa; season; second; seed; sheep; shepherds; soil; sow; spring; stock; subject; summer; sun; supply; things; time; trees; use; varro; villa; vines; virgil; water; way; wild; wine; winter; work; year; young cache: 12140.txt plain text: 12140.txt item: #4 of 79 id: 16525 author: Streeter, John Williams title: The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm date: None words: 96705 flesch: 82 summary: There are good men who will die for those ladies, and it will go hard but bad men shall die first. Just as much coal would be taken from the Gordon mine if your tools were never sharpened, only it would require more men, and you would earn less money apiece. keywords: account; acres; barn; business; care; cents; chapter; city; corn; cost; country; cows; day; days; eggs; factory; farm; feet; find; food; fruit; good; ground; half; hand; hens; high; hogs; home; horses; house; interest; jack; jane; jarvis; land; life; look; lot; man; market; men; milk; money; months; new; oaks; orchard; pay; people; place; plant; polly; pounds; right; room; stock; things; thompson; time; tons; trees; want; water; way; white; work; year cache: 16525.txt plain text: 16525.txt item: #5 of 79 id: 16594 author: Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) title: A Short History of English Agriculture date: None words: 129891 flesch: 75 summary: At this date (1770) the average crops on poor, and on good land were[451]: On land worth 5s. The tailend wheat was Eaten by the family! --------- £10 0 0 ========= And on a farm on good land in the same county the following would be the annual balance sheet at the same date: Dr. £ s. d. Rent 200 0 0 Tithes 40 0 0 Wages 58 0 0 Extra harvestmen 7 0 0 Tradesmen's bills 50 0 0 Taxes and rates 58 0 0 Malt, hops, and cider 60 0 0 Lime 20 0 0 Hop poles 10 0 0 Expenses at fairs and markets 8 0 0 Clothing, groceries, &c., for the family 45 0 0 Interest on £1,500 capital, at 5 per cent. keywords: = =; acres; act; agriculture; average; barley; breed; bushels; cattle; century; common; corn; cost; counties; country; crops; day; eighteenth; enclosure; end; england; english; farmer; farming; farms; field; food; good; grass; half; hen; history; horses; house; husbandry; iii; imports; increase; labourer; land; landlord; like; lord; manor; men; middle; new; number; oats; oxen; parts; pasture; people; period; plough; poor; prices; quarter; rent; says; sheep; small; society; state; stock; system; tenant; time; use; value; wages; wheat; wool; work; worth; year; young cache: 16594.txt plain text: 16594.txt item: #6 of 79 id: 16900 author: Goodrich, C. L. (Charles Landon) title: The First Book of Farming date: None words: 63880 flesch: 80 summary: 30 Soil texture 37 IV.--RELATION OF SOILS TO WATER 39 Importance of water to plants 39 Sources of soil water 40 Attitude of soils toward water: Nitrogen in the soil Phosphoric acid in the soil Potash in the soil Lime in the soil Great importance of physical properties 147 Maintenance of fertility 150 XVII.--SOIL WATER 151 Importance of soil water 151 Necessity of soil water 151 Sources and forms of soil water 153 Too much water 154 Not enough water 154 Loss of soil water 155 How some farm operations influence soil water 156 Hoeing, raking, harrowing and cultivating 158 Manures and soil water 159 Methods of cropping and soil water 159 Selection of crops with reference to soil water 160 XVIII.--THE keywords: acid; air; clay; conditions; corn; cotton; crop; farm; farmer; fig; green; growth; heat; humus; illustration; leaves; loss; manure; matter; moisture; nitrogen; phosphoric; place; plant; plant food; plant roots; plow; potash; roots; sand; seeds; soil; soil water; surface; surface soil; time; use; work; | | cache: 16900.txt plain text: 16900.txt item: #7 of 79 id: 17512 author: Various title: Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date: None words: 46713 flesch: 77 summary: There is to be a brisk trade in seed corn during the next four months, and parties having a well tested article will find no difficulty in disposing of it at good prices, providing they can convince people they have exactly what they claim. It can be engaged in at home; it is light, pleasant, and interesting work; and there is no doubt that American silk can be produced of such a quality that there will be a brisk demand for it at good prices. keywords: address; american; barb; bees; books; business; cattle; cents; chicago; choice; co.; corn; country; crop; day; fair; family; farmer; fence; free; fruit; general; glidden; good; grass; ground; growth; half; hogs; home; ill; illinois; illustration; interest; land; life; like; man; market; men; money; mrs; new; number; paper; people; prairie; prairie farmer; price; question; seed; silk; soil; state; stock; time; use; way; week; wire; work; year; york cache: 17512.txt plain text: 17512.txt item: #8 of 79 id: 17683 author: Various title: The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date: None words: 47520 flesch: 77 summary: Older men, here and there, are engaged in these investigations; but they are passing away in the midst of their work only partially accomplished, and their labors are thus in a degree lost. These prime young ducks, getting into market at a time when such poultry is scarce, bring good prices--from 22 to 25 cents a pound, dressed. keywords: address; agricultural; american; books; business; cattle; cents; chicago; class; co.; cold; corn; country; cut; day; days; degrees; fair; farmer; feet; following; free; fruit; good; grange; growth; half; home; horse; ill; illustration; iowa; jack; land; life; man; meeting; men; milk; money; new; night; number; paper; place; plants; prairie; prairie farmer; present; price; public; short; soil; star; state; stock; time; trees; united; use; water; way; week; white; winter; work; year; young cache: 17683.txt plain text: 17683.txt item: #9 of 79 id: 20168 author: Robinson, Solon title: Guano: A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers date: None words: 45127 flesch: 68 summary: The principal adulterations are made by the addition of loam, marl, sand, plaster, old lime, ashes, chalk, salt, moisture, and by mixture with other guano of a cheaper quality. of good Peruvian guano is as much as we should recommend for wheat. keywords: acre; ammonia; application; bushels; clover; corn; crop; effect; farmers; field; good; grass; ground; guano; half; land; lbs; lime; manure; peruvian; plants; plaster; profit; quantity; seed; soil; time; use; value; wheat; years cache: 20168.txt plain text: 20168.txt item: #10 of 79 id: 20772 author: Hill, Daniel Harvey title: Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition date: None words: 77885 flesch: 83 summary: Plant seeds of any kind in both cans and keep in a warm place. You see, then, that carbon is constantly being put back into the air to replace that which is used by growing plants. keywords: = =; air; animals; apple; clover; corn; cotton; crop; cut; disease; dry; fall; farm; farmer; fat; field; fig; find; flower; food; fruit; good; grass; ground; growing; growth; illustration; insects; kinds; land; leaves; lime; manure; milk; nitrogen; place; plant; plant food; planting; potatoes; produce; roots; section; seed; soil; spring; stock; sugar; time; tree; use; water; way; wheat; winter; year cache: 20772.txt plain text: 20772.txt item: #11 of 79 id: 21022 author: Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir title: Lessons on Soil date: None words: 29231 flesch: 84 summary: If we talk to a farmer or a gardener about soils he will say that there are several kinds of soil; clay soils, gravel soils, peat soils, chalk soils, and so on, and we may discover this for ourselves if we make some rambles in the country and take careful notice of the ground about us, particularly if we can leave the road and walk on the footpaths across the fields. On clay soils (the water content being good) wild plants and trees usually have larger leaves. keywords: air; chalk; clay; experiment; fig; food; grass; growing; illustration; land; leaves; lime; peat; plants; pot; rain; river; sand; soil; subsoil; surface; surface soil; time; water; wet cache: 21022.txt plain text: 21022.txt item: #12 of 79 id: 22040 author: Various title: Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date: None words: 47393 flesch: 77 summary: To Mr. Parslow, for many years his personal servant, Mr. Darwin gave a life pension of £50, and the rent of the handsome Home Cottage in Down. Alone, in a spacious house on Clapham Common, outside of London, did this singular man work through many long years, until he filled it with every possible device capable of unfolding or illustrating principles in science. keywords: address; business; cases; cattle; chicago; choice; city; co.; corn; country; crop; cut; day; days; disease; drainage; dry; family; farmer; feet; field; following; food; free; good; half; horse; illinois; illustration; land; life; machine; man; market; men; money; new; number; offer; page; paper; place; prairie; present; price; seed; state; stock; tile; time; trees; united; use; water; way; week; went; winter; wood; work; year; york; young cache: 22040.txt plain text: 22040.txt item: #13 of 79 id: 22973 author: Markham, Gervase title: The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments date: None words: 67760 flesch: 34 summary: {Illustration} Now for the orderly placing of your trées, you shall vnderstand that your Plumbe-trées (which are as it were a fence or guard about your great quarters) would be placed in rowes one by one, aboue fiue foote distance one from another, round about each skirt of euery alley: your Apple-trées & other greater fruit which are to be planted in the quarters, would be placed in such arteficiall rowes that which way soeuer a man shall cast his eyes yet hée shall sée the trées euery way stand in rowes, making squares, alleyes, and deuisions, according to a mans imagination, according to the figure before, which I would haue you suppose to be one quarter in an Orchard, and by it you may easily compound the rest: wherein you shall vnderstand that the lesser prickes doe figure your Plumbe-trées, & the greater prickes your Apple trées, and such other large fruit. Now to giue you my meaning of these two words, _loose_ and _fast_, it is, that euery soyle which vpon parching and dry weather, euen when the Sunne beames scorcheth, and as it were baketh the earth, if then the ground vpon such excéeding drought doe moulder and fall to dust, so that whereas before when it did retaine moisture it was heauie, tough, and not to be seperated, now hauing lost that glewinesse it is light, loose, and euen with a mans foote to be spurnd to ashes, all such grounds are tearmed loose and open grounds, because at no time they doe binde in or imprison the séede (the frost time onely excepted, which is by accidence, and not from the nature of the soyle:) and all such grounds as in their moisture or after the fall of any sodaine raine are soft, plyable, light, and easie to be wrought, but after when they come to loose that moistnesse and that the powerfulnesse of the Sunne hath as it were drid vp their veynes, if then such earths become hard, firme, and not to be seperated, then are those soyles tearmed fast and binding soyles, for if there ardors be not taken in their due times, and their séede cast into them in perfect and due seasons, neither is it possible for the Plowman to plow them, nor for the séede to sprout through, the earth being so fastned and as it were stone-like fixt together. keywords: barly; blacke; chap; clay; close; corne; cut; doe; doth; downe; earth; end; euery; foote; forth; foure; fruit; garden; good; graft; ground; grow; hath; haue; hauing; husbandman; land; manner; manure; mixt; mould; nature; ouer; pease; place; plough; red; rye; sand; set; soile; sort; séede; time; trée; vnderstand; vnto; vpon; vse; wheate; white; worke; yéere cache: 22973.txt plain text: 22973.txt item: #14 of 79 id: 23682 author: Agee, Alva title: Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement date: None words: 54086 flesch: 69 summary: Where lime is low in price, 3000 pounds of stone-lime, or its equivalent in any other form of lime, is advised, the belief being that such an application will maintain good soil conditions through two crop-rotations, or eight to ten years. The roller or plank-drag is employed to compress the soil, and to crush crumbs of soil that are too large for good soil conditions. keywords: acid; cent; clover; corn; crop; farm; fertilizer; food; good; grass; growth; hay; land; lime; manure; matter; nitrogen; organic; phosphoric; plant; potash; pounds; red; seed; seeding; soil; soil fertility; surface soil; time; use; value; water; years; | | cache: 23682.txt plain text: 23682.txt item: #15 of 79 id: 26313 author: Hunt, Thomas Forsyth title: The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know date: None words: 50643 flesch: 66 summary: COTTON, WOOL AND TOBACCO MARKETS Because of their higher value per pound and the ease with which they can be stored, cotton, wool and tobacco are dealt in somewhat differently than other farm products. The cost of distributing many other farm products is greater, although the range of distribution is much less. keywords: acre; agriculture; animals; average; business; capital; conditions; cost; crops; farm; farm crops; farm labor; farm products; farmer; farming; food; half; hay; income; increase; interest; labor; land; live; maize; man; men; oats; pounds; price; production; products; soil; states; stock; tenant; time; united; value; wheat; work; years cache: 26313.txt plain text: 26313.txt item: #16 of 79 id: 26801 author: Waring, George E. (George Edwin) title: Village Improvements and Farm Villages date: None words: 37066 flesch: 57 summary: North, south, east, and west, there are plenty of hideous conglomerations of poor-looking houses, with an absence of every element of beauty; but there are thousands of other villages scattered all over the land, which are full of the evidences of good taste in their regulation and in their management. Having been actively interested in the enterprise from its inception, and having given constant attention to the merits of the system, I am to-day more than ever convinced that the solution of one of the most difficult problems connected with country and village life is to be sought in its general adoption. keywords: association; case; character; condition; cost; country; drain; earth; farmer; farming; feet; fig; form; good; grass; ground; improvement; land; life; means; pipe; public; road; soil; surface; system; time; use; village; water; way; work cache: 26801.txt plain text: 26801.txt item: #17 of 79 id: 26975 author: Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) title: Chapters in Rural Progress date: None words: 48426 flesch: 61 summary: But it is also true that great progress has been made; that the spirit of co-operation is rapidly emerging as a factor in rural social life; and that the weapons of rural organization have a temper all the better, perhaps, because they were fashioned on the anvil of defeat. Ten years ago Henry Sabin, of Iowa, one of the keenest students of the rural-school problem, in speaking of the supervision of country schools, said: The supervisor of rural schools should be acquainted with the material resources of his district. keywords: = =; agricultural; american; business; church; class; colleges; community; conditions; country; education; england; farm life; farm problem; farmers; farming; grange; institutes; interest; life; man; means; meeting; men; movement; new; operation; organization; people; problem; progress; question; school; state; study; teachers; women; work; years cache: 26975.txt plain text: 26975.txt item: #18 of 79 id: 27274 author: Aikman, Charles Morton title: Manures and the principles of manuring date: None words: 150679 flesch: 67 summary: | per |lb.| per | |cent.| | cent. -----+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------------- | | Average | Nitrogen per acre | | produce | in 1st 9 inches Plot.| Manures per acre, | per acre. keywords: action; ammonia |; ammonium |; application; beans |; bones; cake |; case; combs |; composition; corn |; crop |; effect; experiments; fact; farmyard manure; food; form; great; growth; guano; hay |; lime |; loss; manure |; matter; mineral; nature; nitrate; nitrification; organic; place; plant; present; quantities; quantity; soda |; soil; soluble; source; straw |; tons |; value; year |; | +; | acid; | average; | barley; | bush; | cent; | constituents; | cotton; | cwt; | lb; | leaves; | nitrogen; | page; | phosphate; | phosphoric; | potash; | produce; | roots; | salts; | sulphate; | superphosphate; | water; | wheat; | |; | |-----+-----+-----+------+-----+-----+------+-----+--------+ cache: 27274.txt plain text: 27274.txt item: #19 of 79 id: 27327 author: Schlebecker, John T. title: Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 date: None words: 27462 flesch: 80 summary: Diorama of Tropical Banana Plantation, late 19th century. Diorama of Tropical Coffee Plantation, late 19th century. keywords: agriculture; barbed; catalog; century; company; corn; department; donor; farmers; figure; gift; grain; hand; horse; illinois; implements; inches; iron; john; machine; maryland; massachusetts; model; mrs; museum; new; ohio; patent; plow; reaper; smithsonian; steel; tractor; use; usnm; virginia; washington; wire; wooden; york; | | cache: 27327.txt plain text: 27327.txt item: #20 of 79 id: 28730 author: Carrier, Lyman title: Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 date: None words: 13353 flesch: 73 summary: It had been ordered in 1658, by the General Assembly: That what person or persons, soever, shall at any time hereafter make, in this colonie, so much silke, flax, hopps or any other staple commodities (except tobacco) as is worth two hundred pounds sterling, or English wheate to the value of five hundred pounds stirling in one yeare, and exporte the same or cause the same to be exported, or shall first make two tunne of wine raized out of a vineyard made in this collonie, shall have given him by this country, for an encouragement, ten thousand pounds of Virginia tobacco. This exhaustion of tobacco lands had a beneficial influence on the agricultural development of Virginia. keywords: america; century; colonists; colony; corn; crops; dale; england; english; farming; fields; food; general; horses; indians; jamestown; london; men; new; pounds; products; time; tobacco; virginia; years cache: 28730.txt plain text: 28730.txt item: #21 of 79 id: 29057 author: Crapo, Henry Howland title: Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 date: None words: 9518 flesch: 57 summary: This wool is required to make a fabric of lustrous appearance for imitations of Alapaca, and for a supply of which our manufacturers now depend mostly on foreign countries The price of combing wool has been for some time increasing rapidly, in comparison with other wool, in consequence of its consumption gaining upon its growth. And this is a fact worthy the serious consideration of farmers, and certainly a strong argument in favor of the more general breeding of long wool sheep. keywords: fact; farmers; knowledge; market; michigan; price; sheep; state; subject; time; wool cache: 29057.txt plain text: 29057.txt item: #22 of 79 id: 29665 author: Various title: Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date: None words: 49130 flesch: 76 summary: This was good work, but Mr. Holman's second resolution, also passed, was fully as much in accordance with public feeling and desire. There is no doubt the cold was as intense over the country generally as it has been known for many years, or perhaps ever before, but so far as I can learn the damage to fruit trees, etc., is very slight. keywords: address; agricultural; amos; argosy; business; cheese; chicago; class; co.; cold; corn; country; crop; day; days; drainage; fair; farmer; feet; free; fruit; general; good; grass; half; home; house; illinois; illustration; land; law; making; man; manure; men; milk; money; new; night; paper; people; prairie; present; price; public; sale; seed; soil; spring; state; stock; tile; time; trees; united; use; water; way; weather; week; winter; work; year; young cache: 29665.txt plain text: 29665.txt item: #23 of 79 id: 30808 author: James, C. C. (Charles Canniff) title: History of Farming in Ontario date: None words: 11472 flesch: 57 summary: During this first thirty years very little had been done in the way of stimulating public interest in agricultural work. The great majority of these people, of course, lived upon the land, the towns being comparatively small, and the villages were composed largely of people engaged in agricultural work. keywords: agricultural; association; british; canada; department; farm; farmers; government; new; ontario; people; period; population; province; stock; time; west; wheat; work; years cache: 30808.txt plain text: 30808.txt item: #24 of 79 id: 30975 author: Walden, J. H. title: Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature date: None words: 118846 flesch: 79 summary: Other good varieties are the _Summer_, or _Long White Naples_; _Long Salmon_, a large, gray radish, not generally described in the books (a splendid variety in southern Ohio); and the _Black Spanish_ for fall and winter use. Good honey, good vegetables, and good fruit, like rain and sunshine, may be the property of all. keywords: air; apple; bees; care; cold; corn; country; crop; cultivation; cut; early; excellent; fall; feet; fine; following; food; fruit; garden; good; ground; growing; growth; half; illustration; inches; land; large; leaves; long; manure; method; milk; near; need; new; place; plants; produce; red; roots; rows; season; seed; soil; spring; straw; surface; time; trees; use; varieties; variety; vines; water; way; weather; wet; wheat; white; winter; wood; year cache: 30975.txt plain text: 30975.txt item: #25 of 79 id: 31105 author: Waring, George E. (George Edwin) title: The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools date: None words: 63622 flesch: 71 summary: | without | wheat soil. Fatty | | Woody | Gum and | Albumen, | Matter. keywords: acid |; air; ammonia; animals; ashes; atmosphere; carbon; carbonic; chlorine |; condition; contain; farmer; food; form; good; heat; inorganic; iron |; lime |; manure; matter; mineral; nitrogen; organic; oxygen; parts; phosphate; plants; potash; quantities; roots; soda |; soil; surface; use; water; | | cache: 31105.txt plain text: 31105.txt item: #26 of 79 id: 32392 author: Bevan, William title: Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products date: None words: 36126 flesch: 71 summary: This name is applied both to _Phaseolus vulgaris_ and to _Dolichos melanophthalmus_ (_Vigna Catjang_ var. DAIRY PRODUCE 23 Milk, 23; Cheese, 24; Butter, 27; Xynogala or Yaourti, 27; Trachanas, 28; Kaimaki or Tsippa, 28 V. CROPS AND OTHER PRODUCE OF THE LAND 28 CEREALS 28 Wheat, 31; Barley, 32; Oats, 34; Rye, 35; Maize (Indian Corn), 35; Dari or Millet (Sorghum vulgare), 35 FRUITS 35 Vines and Wines, 36; Citrus fruits, 43; Fig (_Ficus Carica_), 44; Cherries, 45; Banana, 46; Azarol Hawthorn, 46; Melons, 47; Date Palm, 47 NUTS 48 Hazelnuts and Cobnuts or Filberts, 48; Walnuts, 49; Almonds, 49; Spanish Chestnut, 50; Pistacia spp., 50 VEGETABLES 52 Beans and Peas, 53; Potatoes, 55; Kolakas (_Colocasia antiquorum_), 56; Onions, 56 FODDERS AND FEEDING STUFFS 57 Carob Tree, 57; Lucerne (_Medicago sativa_), 61; Vetch (_Vicia Ervilia_), 62; Chickling Vetch (_Lathyrus sativus_), 62; Vetch (_Vicia sativa_), 62; Tares (_Vicia tenuifolia var. keywords: average; cattle; cotton; crop; cultivation; cyprus; demand; department; district; egypt; fig; fruit; general; government; imperial; industry; institute; island; kinds; leaves; making; market; milk; native; oil; okes; plant; production; quality; quantity; seed; sheep; time; tobacco; trees; value; varieties; war; water; years; yield cache: 32392.txt plain text: 32392.txt item: #27 of 79 id: 32863 author: Cobbett, William title: Cottage Economy, to Which is Added The Poor Man's Friend date: None words: 84300 flesch: 78 summary: Make the boiler of _copper_, and not of sheet-iron, and fix it on a stand with a fire-place and stove-pipe; and then you have the whole to brew out of doors with as well as in-doors, which is a very great convenience. The best way to preserve manure, is to have a pit of sufficient dimensions close behind the cow-shed and pig-sty, for the run from these to go into, and from which all runs of _rain water_ should be kept. keywords: beer; bread; bushel; case; children; corn; country; cow; cut; day; england; english; family; flour; food; good; grass; ground; half; house; labourer; law; laws; let; little; making; malt; man; means; men; milk; necessity; order; people; place; plants; plat; pounds; society; sort; state; straw; thing; time; tub; want; water; way; wheat; work; year cache: 32863.txt plain text: 32863.txt item: #28 of 79 id: 32949 author: Crow, Martha Foote title: The American Country Girl date: None words: 99172 flesch: 72 summary: Surely she could ask for no better or larger career than to be able to make in her home town a radiant life for all the young people, full of charm, a counter-charm against which the lure of the city would have no power, and thus keep girl life safe and pure, and prevent the sorrowful fate that would befall her young townswomen if they should yield to the temptation that knocks at their door. The first unthinking impulse of many country girls is their love for their country homes. keywords: books; business; care; chapter; children; city; club; college; community; conditions; country girl; country life; course; daughter; day; days; education; efficiency; family; farm; farm home; farm life; farm woman; farmstead; father; feel; fire; form; girls; good; half; health; heart; help; home; home life; house; household; human; interest; joy; kitchen; labor; let; little; living; love; making; means; men; mind; money; mother; music; needs; new; opportunity; order; people; place; play; power; present; reading; right; school; service; set; share; small; spirit; state; study; things; thought; time; town; training; village; way; woman; work; working; world; year; young cache: 32949.txt plain text: 32949.txt item: #29 of 79 id: 33060 author: Duryee, William Budington title: A Living from the Land date: None words: 40059 flesch: 64 summary: | | | | Distance | | | | | between | | | Seed | Depth | rows for | Name of | Variety | for |to sow |cultivation,| vegetable | | 100- | seed, | inches | | | row |inches | | | | | |calcium arsenate, | | |mixed with 1 part of | | |wheat flour. keywords: agriculture; area; birds; building; business; chicks; city; conditions; cost; country; country home; cow; facilities; family; farm; feet; food; garden; growing; growth; home; house; income; land; location; market; means; milk; new; number; owner; plant; poultry; pounds; production; products; quality; soil; stand; state; stock; supply; time; trees; type; water; work; years; | cabbage; | frost; | spinach; | |; | |a; | |the cache: 33060.txt plain text: 33060.txt item: #30 of 79 id: 33178 author: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde) title: The Holy Earth date: None words: 37763 flesch: 66 summary: With care and with regard for other men, we must produce the food and the other supplies in regularity and sufficiency; and we must clean up after our work, that the earth may not be depleted, scarred, or repulsive. There are other men who would take the last nugget and destroy the last bole. keywords: contact; country; course; day; earth; farmer; farming; forest; form; good; human; land; life; live; man; materials; means; men; nature; new; obligation; people; persons; place; present; products; public; resources; responsibility; results; sea; society; things; time; use; way; work cache: 33178.txt plain text: 33178.txt item: #31 of 79 id: 33243 author: Pryor, Elizabeth Brown title: Frying Pan Farm date: None words: 41160 flesch: 66 summary: [28] Soybeans began to be introduced into the area during this period and Fairfax County farmers also sowed various grasses for summer pasturage and to make hay for winter feeding. Thus, Fairfax County farmers were slow to embrace the newfangled technology. keywords: agent; agriculture; area; beard; children; church; club; collection; community; corn; county farm; dairy; day; derr; elizabeth; ellmore; equipment; fairfax county; family; farm; farmer; farming; february; floris; frying; harrison; help; herndon; high; home; illustration; interview; january; joseph; labor; land; library; life; little; march; mcnair; middleton; milk; netherton; new; news; observer; pan; park; photo; pryor; report; rural; school; time; use; virginia; washington; wheat; work; year cache: 33243.txt plain text: 33243.txt item: #32 of 79 id: 33921 author: Lyon, William Scrugham title: Cacao Culture in the Philippines date: None words: 9607 flesch: 56 summary: Gaspar de S. Augustin, cacao plants were first brought here in the year 1670 by a pilot named Pedro Brabo, of Laguna Province, who gave them to a priest of the Camarines named Bartoleme Brabo. Nevertheless, in many localities the condition of the plants is such as not to justify the general extension of cacao cultivation into all regions. keywords: account; cacao; cultivation; fruit; hectare; kilos; plantation; planting; plants; pruning; seed; shade; soil; trees; year cache: 33921.txt plain text: 33921.txt item: #33 of 79 id: 34437 author: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest) title: Methods of Destroying Rats date: None words: 2345 flesch: 66 summary: The value of carnivorous mammals and the larger birds of prey in destroying rats should be more fully recognized, especially by the farmer and the game preserver. [Footnote A: Several species of rats are known as house rats, including the black rat (_Mus rattus_), the roof rat (_Mus alexandrinus_), and the brown rat (_Mus norvegicus_). keywords: bait; methods; proof; rats; traps; use cache: 34437.txt plain text: 34437.txt item: #34 of 79 id: 34446 author: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest) title: Cottontail Rabbits in Relation to Trees and Farm Crops date: None words: 4422 flesch: 69 summary: Introduction 1 Habits of cottontail rabbits 2 Protection of rabbits 3 Means of repressing rabbits 5 Natural enemies 5 Hunting 6 Trapping 6 Poisoning 9 Bacterial diseases 10 Protection of crops from rabbits 10 Rabbit-proof fences 10 Tree protection 10 Washes 10 Mechanical contrivances 11 Traps and other devices that are effective with cottontail rabbits do not always succeed with jack rabbits. keywords: animals; cottontail; protection; rabbits; states; trees; wire; | | cache: 34446.txt plain text: 34446.txt item: #35 of 79 id: 34562 author: Kendall, Edward C. title: John Deere's Steel Plow date: None words: 5941 flesch: 73 summary: (It is probable that from the late 1850's on Deere plows had steel moldboards.) The importance attached to the steel share led to the plows being identified as steel plows. keywords: andrus; deere; figure; iron; john; john deere; moldboard; plow; saw; steel cache: 34562.txt plain text: 34562.txt item: #36 of 79 id: 35542 author: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest) title: House Rats and Mice date: None words: 8552 flesch: 70 summary: The animal is usually caught by the foot, and its squealing has a tendency to frighten other rats. The value of carnivorous mammals and the larger birds of prey in destroying rats and mice should be more fully recognized, especially by the farmer and the game preserver. keywords: animals; buildings; cents; concrete; fig; food; mice; price; proof; rats; states; trap; use; wire cache: 35542.txt plain text: 35542.txt item: #37 of 79 id: 35696 author: Greeley, Horace title: What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science date: None words: 91734 flesch: 62 summary: The farmer who grows the largest crops is the most merciless exhauster of the soil, unless he balances his annual drafts (as good farmers rarely fail to do) by at least equal reënforcements of the productive capacity of his fields. Where the refuse product of Salt-Works can be cheaply bought, good farmers will eagerly compete for it, if their lands at all resemble mine. keywords: acres; agriculture; average; cattle; corn; cost; country; crop; cultivation; cut; day; earth; england; fall; farmer; farming; farms; fertilizers; field; fruit; good; grain; grass; growing; half; hay; irrigation; labor; land; lime; little; long; man; means; men; muck; need; new; pay; planting; plowing; profit; soil; spring; states; steam; surface; timber; time; trees; use; value; water; west; winter; work; years cache: 35696.txt plain text: 35696.txt item: #38 of 79 id: 35816 author: Various title: The Philippine Agricultural Review. Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 date: None words: 25245 flesch: 63 summary: | 52 | .9303 .9225 | 53 | .9283 .9205 keywords: = =; = c.; acid; apex; base; bohol; cane; centimeters; citrus; coffee; flowers; fruit; juice; leaves; lemon; material; millimeters; molasses; oblong; orange; philippines; plants; robusta; smooth; species; stamens; sugar; | | cache: 35816.txt plain text: 35816.txt item: #39 of 79 id: 36031 author: United States. National Conservation Congress title: Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 date: None words: 259202 flesch: 56 summary: There appear to be three ways of reducing the danger of the denudation of private forest lands, namely, (_a_) to educate the owners as to the unwisdom of indiscriminate and wholesale cutting; (_b_) to convert private lands into State lands by purchase, and thus bring them under the protection of the Constitution which forbids the cutting of trees on State land; and (_c_) It provided that storage reservoirs might be built upon State lands in certain specified water-sheds at certain specified points; that the flow-lines should be accurately surveyed and permanently monumented; that the total area of State land flooded should not exceed certain stated amounts--approximately 3 percent of the total area of the Forest Preserve; that all trees, stumps, and other organic material should be removed from within the flow-line; and certain other conditions designed to protect the public interests in the construction, maintenance and use of the reservoirs and the water-power developed therefrom. keywords: acres; act; action; address; agricultural; american; applause; baker; benefit; business; capital; chairman; children; city; coal; coal lands; committee; conditions; conservation association; conservation commission; conservation committee; conservation congress; conservation movement; conservation work; constitution; cost; country; department; development; education; executive; fact; farm; federal; fire; forest conservation; forest lands; forestry; forests; future; general; gentlemen; good; government; government land; governor; great; hand; health; human; interests; irrigation; ladies; large; laughter; law; laws; legislation; life; long; making; man; matter; means; methods; minnesota; money; mr president; national conservation; need; new; number; order; owners; past; people; policy; power; present; president; price; problem; products; property; protection; public; purpose; question; report; resources; river; secretary; service; soil; south; state; state board; state conservation; state control; state forest; state government; state lands; state legislature; state rights; state water; storage; streams; subject; system; things; timber; timber conservation; timber lands; time; today; united states; value; want; washington; waste; water; water resources; water supply; way; west; women; work; world; years; york state cache: 36031.txt plain text: 36031.txt item: #40 of 79 id: 38955 author: Various title: Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside date: None words: 48366 flesch: 76 summary: It originated with Lincoln Fay, of Chautauqua county, N. Y. For many years he endeavored to raise a currant that would combine the size of the Cherry currant with the productiveness of the Victoria. In order to emphasize these statements, we will insert a few practical examples communicated to the Drainage Journal during last year. Geo. keywords: address; bees; bushels; cattle; chicago; choice; city; co.; corn; county; day; days; disease; dobb; drainage; early; etc; farmer; feet; following; food; foot; fruit; good; grass; half; head; hogs; home; house; illinois; illustration; land; life; light; making; man; men; money; mouth; mrs; new; number; page; paper; place; plant; prairie; price; season; seed; smith; soil; spring; state; stock; time; trees; water; way; wheat; white; winter; work; year; young cache: 38955.txt plain text: 38955.txt item: #41 of 79 id: 39483 author: McKeever, William A. (William Arch) title: Farm Boys and Girls date: None words: 81883 flesch: 70 summary: He should be especially fond of boys and boy life and interested in the conduct of people of every kind and sort. A large river is less desirable on account of the danger to child life. keywords: age; book; boy; boys; building; business; case; chapter; character; children; church; city; college; community; company; country; country boy; country girl; country life; country school; course; daughter; day; development; education; farm; farm boy; farm home; farm life; farmer; fig; general; girls; good; great; home; home life; interest; life; life work; man; matter; means; men; money; nature; neighborhood; new; parents; people; place; play; room; rural; school; small; social; state; study; thing; thought; time; training; use; way; women; work; years; young cache: 39483.txt plain text: 39483.txt item: #42 of 79 id: 39791 author: Shearer, Herbert A. title: Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. date: None words: 53062 flesch: 78 summary: We should remember that actual farm figures are used for the cost of horse work. Farm water pipes usually are small. keywords: air; box; center; cloth; corn; cut; cutting; drill; electric; end; ends; engine; farm; farm work; farmers; feet; figure; file; furrow; ground; half; hand; hay; horse; illustration; inch; inches; iron; irrigation; land; machinery; pipe; plow; power; pressure; pump; right; run; saw; set; shaft; shop; size; soil; square; steel; tank; time; tools; use; water; way; wheel; wood; work; working cache: 39791.txt plain text: 39791.txt item: #43 of 79 id: 39869 author: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company title: Farming with Dynamite: A Few Hints to Farmers date: None words: 2728 flesch: 76 summary: A whole row of tree holes can be excavated in one instant when charged with Red Cross Dynamite. Farming With Dynamite _ keywords: dynamite; land; red; soil; stumps cache: 39869.txt plain text: 39869.txt item: #44 of 79 id: 40670 author: Macdonald, William title: Makers of Modern Agriculture date: None words: 13023 flesch: 76 summary: Year by year they increased in numbers till at last they embraced every nationality, every profession, and every rank in life, from Royalty to the poorest peasant. Yet he retained it for several years--walking seventeen miles down to his farm every Saturday evening and returning to London every Monday morning. keywords: age; agriculture; coke; day; drill; farm; farmers; father; john; land; life; man; mccormick; net; reaper; sheep; sinclair; time; tull; year; young cache: 40670.txt plain text: 40670.txt item: #45 of 79 id: 40888 author: Gilbert, Frank title: Jethro Wood, Inventor of the Modern Plow. A Brief Account of His Life, Services, and Trials; Together with Facts Subsequent to his Death, and Incident to His Great Invention date: None words: 11010 flesch: 67 summary: Roswell Toulsby, Horace Pease, and John Swan, of that town, each took out letters patent for improvements in plows, and that prior to the issuance of any patent to Mr. Wood. No citizen of the United States has conferred greater economical benefits on his country than Jethro Wood--none of her benefactors have been more inadequately rewarded. keywords: board; cast; invention; inventor; iron; jethro; jethro wood; line; mould; new; patent; plough; plow; point; use; wood cache: 40888.txt plain text: 40888.txt item: #46 of 79 id: 4509 author: Hall, Bolton title: Three Acres and Liberty date: None words: 82155 flesch: 72 summary: If an ordinary farmer rents 60 acres at $5.00 per acre, a moderate rent for good land, he pays out in cash $300, besides farm wages. Many persons write me that I say it is necessary to get good land near population or with cheap and assured transportation facilities--and that it must not cost more than it is worth for gardening. keywords: acre; agriculture; air; average; bushels; business; capital; cents; chapter; children; cities; city; conditions; cost; country; crops; cultivation; day; department; dollars; farm; farmers; farming; feet; flowers; food; fruit; garden; good; ground; growing; half; help; house; inches; labor; land; life; living; lot; man; manure; market; men; money; need; new; open; pay; people; place; plants; potatoes; prices; produce; profit; raising; season; seed; soil; states; supply; things; time; trees; united; use; value; vegetables; water; way; winter; work; year; yield; york cache: 4509.txt plain text: 4509.txt item: #47 of 79 id: 45154 author: Miller, Mary Rogers title: The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work date: None words: 111820 flesch: 84 summary: Good old dog was all Nimp expected for little deeds of kindness like this. Suppose you have found several maple trees, good big ones, right in your own door yard. keywords: animals; bees; birds; book; box; boys; business; care; chickens; children; collection; common; corn; country; cut; day; days; dog; dollars; eat; eggs; farm; feed; feeding; feet; find; fine; flowers; food; girls; goats; good; ground; half; hens; hive; home; honey; house; illustration; insects; kind; leaves; life; look; making; man; market; milk; mother; nature; need; new; nuts; ones; open; people; place; plants; poultry; price; raising; right; seed; set; spring; sugar; summer; supply; things; time; trap; trees; want; water; way; white; wild; winter; woods; work; worth; year; young; | +; | | cache: 45154.txt plain text: 45154.txt item: #48 of 79 id: 4525 author: Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George) title: The Farm That Won't Wear Out date: None words: 14269 flesch: 50 summary: Other trustworthy experiments by the Maryland and Ohio Experiment Stations confirm the Pennsylvania results in showing better crop yields when unburned lime carbonate was used; and more extensive experiments by the Tennessee Experiment Station also agree with the Pennsylvania data in regard to the destruction of organic matter and loss of soil nitrogen from the use of burned lime. This would be more generally understood if it were known that the supply of soil nitrogen in humid countries is contained only in the organic matter. keywords: acre; average; bushels; corn; crop; farm; land; nitrogen; phosphorus; plant; potassium; pounds; soil; years cache: 4525.txt plain text: 4525.txt item: #49 of 79 id: 46995 author: Various title: The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 01 (1820) date: None words: 25600 flesch: 65 summary: Their solemn declaration to the world, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain _unalienable_ rights, and that among these are life, _liberty_, and the pursuit of happiness, had otherwise been the worst of mockeries. THE RURAL MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY _EVENING FIRE-SIDE_. keywords: agriculture; cattle; corn; cotton; country; crops; effect; feet; fire; food; general; good; ground; inches; james; john; labour; magazine; man; nature; new; oil; place; plants; plough; power; public; seed; slavery; square; states; subject; sugar; time; trees; united; value; william; | | cache: 46995.txt plain text: 46995.txt item: #50 of 79 id: 48709 author: Redington, Paul G. (Paul Goodwin) title: Information for the Guidance of Field Men and Cooperators of the Bureau of Biological Survey Engaged in the Control of Injurious Rodents and Predatory Animals date: None words: 2835 flesch: 40 summary: The control of such predatory wild animals as coyotes, wolves, mountain lions, and bobcats is concentrated on areas where serious damage is being done to domestic stock, poultry, and game. Hunters working under the supervision of the Biological Survey are instructed to visit their trap lines as frequently as possible and to liberate game animals and foxes, badgers, skunks, martens, minks, raccoons, and other animals accidentally caught, unless they are so injured that they can not survive. keywords: animals; biological; control; life; predatory cache: 48709.txt plain text: 48709.txt item: #51 of 79 id: 48741 author: Various title: The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 02 (1820) date: None words: 23336 flesch: 67 summary: In the rotation of _three_ years, the ground is sown five times, and in that of four years, seven times, as follows. Besides the application of _ordinary manures_, the lupin is ploughed down, _when in flower_; a practice that began with the Romans: Columella says, of all leguminous vegetables, the _lupin_ is that which most merits attention, because it costs least, employs least time and furnishes an _excellent manure_. keywords: agriculture; attention; climate; country; crops; culture; dung; france; good; grapes; ground; growth; lands; life; manure; mind; nature; new; plough; public; purpose; rotation; rye; seed; soil; spain; spring; state; time; vevay; vine; wheat; wine; years cache: 48741.txt plain text: 48741.txt item: #52 of 79 id: 48748 author: Various title: The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 04 (1820) date: None words: 24587 flesch: 68 summary: at the expense of _small_ ones, and the _multiplication_ of _parks_ and _pleasure grounds_; and lastly, the _attraction of great cities_, and the _continual drafts_ made upon the agricultural population, for the army and navy, and for commerce and manufactures. The most remarkable thing, however, discovered by _M. Belzoni_ in those environs is a spring of living water, of which _Herodotus_ makes mention, warm in the morning and evening, cold at noon, and boiling hot at midnight. keywords: age; city; country; court; day; days; drink; drinking; earth; england; following; houses; intemperance; king; liquor; london; lord; man; men; nature; new; number; opinion; people; place; plants; practice; present; public; society; soil; state; taverns; thy; time; use; water; years cache: 48748.txt plain text: 48748.txt item: #53 of 79 id: 48759 author: Various title: The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 05 (1820) date: None words: 25331 flesch: 64 summary: And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid_, That in all cases where personal property shall be taken in execution by virtue of any writ of _fieri facias_ issued out of any court of common pleas in this commonwealth, or by virtue of any execution issued by a justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, coroner, constable or other person, to whom such writ shall be directed, respectively, when it shall be requested by the debtor, to summon three respectable freeholders or citizens of the vicinage, who, being first duly sworn or affirmed by the said officer, shall value and appraise the personal property aforesaid, for which service they each shall be entitled to receive fifty cents per day; which valuation or appraisement, signed by the appraisers, together with a schedule of the property taken in execution, shall be annexed to the return of said writ. The _mechanical_ agency ascribed to lime, belongs also to _marle_ and to _ashes_, and in an equal degree--but their _chymical_ operation, though similar, is less.[9] [9] Vegetable ashes are _lime_, combined with an earthy saline matter. keywords: acid; aforesaid; age; air; carbonic; country; day; days; dog; dry; effect; family; flax; following; good; house; life; light; man; manner; matter; men; new; plants; property; sale; state; things; thou; time; trees; vegetation; water; way; writ; years; youth cache: 48759.txt plain text: 48759.txt item: #54 of 79 id: 48760 author: Various title: The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 06 (1820) date: None words: 25263 flesch: 67 summary: Upon the same principle, _plaster_, which is _food_ for _vegetables_, affords the most nutriment when reduced to the finest powder. _Heat_ so far from injuring the properties of plaster, is the best agent for bringing them into action. But the eyes of _other people_ are the eyes that ruin us. keywords: acre; bank; corn; country; crops; cut; day; earth; feet; fruit; good; ground; horse; inches; labour; life; machine; man; men; nature; new; period; plants; plough; power; pupils; quantity; soil; state; time; tree; water; wood; years; young cache: 48760.txt plain text: 48760.txt item: #55 of 79 id: 5152 author: Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James) title: One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered date: None words: 121319 flesch: 77 summary: If you are sure of four feet of good soil above the hardpan you will have no difficulty in growing good trees, if you get the moisture just right and the hardpan slopes in such a way that surplus moisture will move away. If I take sprouts that come up where the roots have been cut, will they make good trees? keywords: acre; alfalfa; alkali; apple trees; barley; beans; bearing; branches; california; conditions; corn; course; cow; crop; cultivation; cut; cutting; dry; fall; feed; feeding; feet; frost; fruit trees; good; grafting; grain; green; ground; growing; growth; hay; horse; irrigation; kind; land; lime; manure; milk; moisture; new; orange; orchard; ounces; peach; place; plant; planting; plowing; potatoes; pounds; pruning; right; root; season; seed; soil; state; stock; summer; surface; time; treatment; trees; trouble; use; value; water; way; winter; work; year cache: 5152.txt plain text: 5152.txt item: #56 of 79 id: 5350 author: King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram) title: Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan date: None words: 93832 flesch: 62 summary: Now we are in a narrow valley between small rice fields or with none at all, but dash into one more nearly level with wide areas in rice chiefly on one side of the track just before reaching Onoda at 10:30 A. M. and continuing three minutes ride beyond, when we are again between hills without fields and where the trees are pine with clumps of bamboo. At Kanaya we passed through a long tunnel and were in the valley of the Oigawa, crossing the broad, nearly dry stream over a bridge of nineteen long spans and were then in the prefecture of Shizuoka where large fields of tea spread far up the hillsides, covering extensive areas, but after passing the next station, and for seventeen miles before reaching Shizuoka we traversed a level stretch of nearly continuous rice fields. keywords: acre; area; beans; bushels; canal; cent; china; chinese; city; compost; country; crop; cut; day; earth; farmers; feet; fields; fig; food; fuel; grain; green; ground; growing; growth; half; high; hills; home; inches; japan; labor; land; leaves; left; man; manner; manure; men; miles; mud; near; people; phosphorus; places; plant; potassium; pounds; province; rate; rice; rice fields; river; rows; saw; season; set; soil; square; straw; surface; time; tons; trees; use; water; way; wheat; work; years cache: 5350.txt plain text: 5350.txt item: #57 of 79 id: 59316 author: Smith, Deborah Takiff title: Computers on the Farm Farm Uses for Computers, How to Select Software and Hardware, and Online Information Sources in Agriculture date: None words: 10544 flesch: 55 summary: The land-grant university in your State may have computer programs available for farmers at nominal cost. There are also many commercial software houses that produce computer programs in the field of agriculture. keywords: agricultural; computer; data; equipment; extension; farm; farmers; hardware; help; information; market; memory; need; online; programs; service; software; state; system; usda; use cache: 59316.txt plain text: 59316.txt item: #58 of 79 id: 59381 author: Anonymous title: Simple Plumbing Repairs for the Home and Farmstead date: None words: 4471 flesch: 74 summary: A pump, storage tank, hot-water tank, water closet tank, water-treatment apparatus, and other water-system appliances or accessories should also be drained. Transcribers Note Text emphasis denoted as _Italics_ and =Bold=. SIMPLE PLUMBING REPAIRS for the Home and Farmstead [Illustration] [Illustration] Farmers' Bulletin No. 2202 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CONTENTS Page Repairing water faucets and valves 1 Frostproof hydrants 4 Repairing leaks in pipes and tanks 5 Pipes 5 Tanks 7 Water hammer 8 Frozen water pipes 8 Preventing freezing 8 Thawing 8 Repairing water closets 9 Flushing mechanism 9 Bowl removal 10 Tank sweating 12 Clearing clogged drains 12 Fixture and floor drains 12 Outside drains 13 Tools and spare parts 13 Emergencies 14 =Prepared by Northeastern Region Agricultural Research Service= This bulletin supersedes Farmers' Bulletin 1460, Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home. keywords: bowl; faucets; pipe; plumbing; supply; tank; valve; washer; water cache: 59381.txt plain text: 59381.txt item: #59 of 79 id: 59485 author: Phillips, Everett Franklin title: Wintering Bees in Cellars date: None words: 10377 flesch: 66 summary: 2.--Interior of bee cellar with hives In piles of four. 3.--Diagram of bee cellar. keywords: bee cellar; beekeeper; bees; cellar; cellar wintering; good; hive; stores; temperature; time cache: 59485.txt plain text: 59485.txt item: #60 of 79 id: 59502 author: Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.) title: The Preparation of Bees for Outdoor Wintering date: None words: 9556 flesch: 69 summary: A common cause of loss is through attempting to winter colonies that are too small. It is somewhat difficult to set a standard for colony strength at this season, but in general it may be stated that it is unwise to attempt to winter colonies that are not strong enough to have brood sufficient to fill three to four Langstroth frames two months before the packing is applied. keywords: bees; case; colonies; colony; hive; honey; packing; time; winter cache: 59502.txt plain text: 59502.txt item: #61 of 79 id: 59503 author: Husmann, George C. (George Charles) title: Home Manufacture and Use of Unfermented Grape Juice date: None words: 5450 flesch: 84 summary: Introduction 5 Historical notes 5 Composition of the grape 6 Causes of fermentation 6 Methods of preventing fermentation 6 Home manufacture 7 Manufacture of larger quantities 9 Useful appliances 10 Composition of unfermented grape juice 12 Flavor and quality in grape juice 12 Uses of unfermented grape juice 13 Food value of unfermented grape juice 13 A few good recipes 14 ILLUSTRATIONS. Besides the recipes just given many more are enumerated, such as grape ice, grape lemonade, grape water ice, grape juice and egg, baked bananas, snow pudding, grape gelatine, junket and grape jelly, tutti-frutti jelly, grape float, grape jelly, grape juice plain, grape soda water, and scores of others. keywords: bottles; experiment; fig; grape; grape juice; juice; press; station; use; work cache: 59503.txt plain text: 59503.txt item: #62 of 79 id: 59546 author: Marsden, Stanley J. title: Turkey Raising date: None words: 20143 flesch: 72 summary: Improper brooding methods cause great losses, because turkey poults are very susceptible to cold, dampness, overcrowding, overheating, unsuitable feeds, and unsuitable litter, and they succumb readily to attacks of diseases and parasites. A colony house or permanent brooder house that is suitable for brooding chicks is equally suitable for turkeys, but fewer birds should be put in the house, as turkey poults are larger than chicks. keywords: age; birds; breeding; clean; eggs; fed; feed; feeding; figure; grain; ground; hens; house; mash; percent; poults; range; turkeys; water; weeks; wire; | | cache: 59546.txt plain text: 59546.txt item: #63 of 79 id: 59554 author: Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian) title: House Flies date: None words: 4689 flesch: 68 summary: A careful screening of windows and doors during the summer months, with the supplementary use of sticky fly papers, is a preventive measure against house flies known to everyone, and there seems to be little hope in the near future of much relief by doing away with the breeding places. On the basis of the experiments of 1897, an attempt was made, beginning early in April, 1898, to prevent the breeding of house flies about the department by the treatment of this manure pile with kerosene. keywords: adult; fig; flies; fly; house; illustration; larva; manure; stable cache: 59554.txt plain text: 59554.txt item: #64 of 79 id: 59555 author: Kephart, Leonard Wheeler title: Poison-ivy, Poison-oak and Poison Sumac: Identification, Precautions and Eradication date: None words: 10099 flesch: 67 summary: Poison-ivy and other poisonous plants growing in grounds frequented by people should be eradicated. A number of other plants are easily confused with poison-ivy. keywords: figure; form; ivy; leaf; leaflets; leaves; oak; oil; plants; poison; poison sumac; poisoning; species; sumac cache: 59555.txt plain text: 59555.txt item: #65 of 79 id: 59579 author: Various title: The American Agriculturist. Vol. II. No. XI, December 1843 Designed to Improve the Planter, the Farmer, the Stock-breeder, and the Horticulturist date: None words: 33652 flesch: 71 summary: These two it is necessary for me to speak of separately, and thoroughly to describe, for they are not both of them applicable in all cases; the former being used in grafting on small-sized stocks and small branches of trees, and the latter on large stocks and large branches. If Examiner will honor me with a visit, an invitation I herewith cordially tender to him, I will show him _fine_ flocks, consisting of more than a few individuals--a dozen or two, or may be a few scores, of picked sheep together, and kept in the very highest possible condition; no, but flocks from 500 to 1,000--even more--which might alter his judgment, if that is not swayed by prejudice. keywords: agriculturist; american; bark; bud; cattle; clay; country; cut; farmers; feet; field; good; grafting; grain; head; lbs; manure; new; operation; quantity; scion; sheep; society; state; stock; subject; time; united; use; water; way; wheat; wood; wool; year cache: 59579.txt plain text: 59579.txt item: #66 of 79 id: 59599 author: Ashby, Wallace title: Farmhouse Plans date: None words: 12834 flesch: 69 summary: Porches, original house, 90 square feet; completed house, 285 square feet. [Illustration: VIEW OF COMPLETED HOUSES] Construction should be simple. keywords: addition; agricultural; bedroom; cellar; department; engineering; feet; floor areas; floor plan; house; illustration; kitchen; living; room; space; superstructure cache: 59599.txt plain text: 59599.txt item: #67 of 79 id: 59625 author: Robinson, Brittain B. (Brittain Bragunier) title: Hemp date: None words: 4939 flesch: 76 summary: The quantity of fiber produced per acre on these soils may be very high, but experience has demonstrated that the fiber lacks strength, which is the first requirement of hemp fiber for good cordage. When hempseed is sown thickly for fiber production, the plants usually grow from 5 to 8 feet tall. keywords: fiber; hemp; plant; production; retting; seed; stalks; | | cache: 59625.txt plain text: 59625.txt item: #68 of 79 id: 59630 author: Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.) title: Comb Honey date: None words: 19044 flesch: 62 summary: In view of the increasing demand for the finest grade of comb honey and a decrease in the amount of comb honey produced, it seems timely to present to professional beekeepers an analysis of the best practice as well as to point out some essentials to the production of maximum crops of the best grade. The production of gathering bees 22 Providing sufficient stores 23 Providing available brood-rearing space 23 Summary 24 Using available workers to best advantage during the honey flow 25 Swarming 26 Preventive measures 26 Control measures 27 Control of natural swarms 28 Using the removed brood to best advantage 29 What to use in the brood chamber when hiving swarms 32 Extreme contraction of the brood chamber when hiving swarms 33 Swarm control by manipulation 34 Taking the queen from the hive 35 Removing the brood from the hive 37 Separating the queen and brood within the hive 40 Manipulation of the supers 41 Caring for the crop 44 Removing the honey from the hives 44 Care of comb honey 45 Scraping propolis from sections 45 Grading comb honey 46 Packages for comb honey 46 Marketing 47 ILLUSTRATIONS. keywords: bees; brood; brood chamber; colonies; colony; comb honey; combs; hive; honey flow; queen; sections; supers cache: 59630.txt plain text: 59630.txt item: #69 of 79 id: 5992 author: Barker, Lady (Mary Anne) title: Station Amusements in New Zealand date: None words: 65030 flesch: 70 summary: A profound silence unbroken by bleat of lamb, or bark of dog, or any sound of life, had reigned for many days, when a merciful north-westerly gale sprung, up, and releasing the heavily-laden earth from its white bondage, freed the miserable remnant of our flocks and herds. This had been the terrible state of things, and although the blessed warm wind had removed our immediate and pressing fear of starvation, we could not hope to employ ourselves in searching for our missing sheep for many days to come. keywords: air; away; bush; cold; cook; country; course; day; days; dog; door; evening; eyes; feet; fire; good; half; hand; head; heart; hills; home; horses; hour; house; kitchen; lake; left; life; look; man; miles; moment; morning; new; night; place; poor; room; round; run; set; sheep; snow; station; tea; thing; thought; time; water; way; work; years; zealand cache: 5992.txt plain text: 5992.txt item: #70 of 79 id: 6104 author: Barker, Lady (Mary Anne) title: Station Life in New Zealand date: None words: 63157 flesch: 65 summary: This is the bright side of colonial life, and there is more to be said in its praise; but the counterbalancing drawback is, that the people seem gradually to lose the sense of larger and wider interests; they have little time to keep pace with the general questions of the day, and anything like sympathy or intellectual appreciation is very rare. The wind was a trifle light for sailing, so the gentlemen pulled, but very lazily and not at all in good form, as the object of each oarsman seemed to be to do as little work as possible. keywords: air; breakfast; bush; christchurch; cold; country; course; day; days; end; feet; fire; gentlemen; good; ground; half; head; hills; home; horses; hours; house; left; letter; life; miles; moment; morning; new; night; o'clock; place; river; room; set; sheep; snow; sort; station; tea; thought; time; trees; water; way; white; wind; work cache: 6104.txt plain text: 6104.txt item: #71 of 79 id: 62592 author: Warren, George M. (George Milton) title: Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home date: None words: 5817 flesch: 77 summary: [Illustration: Figure 8.--Flush valve for low tank.] CLOGGED PIPES Rust and dirt in water pipes are more or less successfully removed as follows: Tie a piece of small, stout cord to each end of a 2-foot length of small chain. FAUCETS SEAT WASHERS Badly worn washers make faucets noisy, hard to operate, and wasteful of water. keywords: cap; faucet; figure; handle; nut; pipe; screw; seat; washer; water cache: 62592.txt plain text: 62592.txt item: #72 of 79 id: 62605 author: Simons, Joseph Winslow title: Sewage and Garbage Disposal on the Farm date: None words: 9378 flesch: 68 summary: Tile disposal fields, such as are used with septic tanks, and earth-pit privies accomplish this if the water table remains several feet below the surface and if the location is remote from water supplies. [Illustration] +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CAPACITIES, DIMENSIONS, AND CONCRETE MATERIALS | | FOR SEPTIC TANKS SERVING INDIVIDUAL DWELLINGS | +---------+--------+--------------------------------+-----------------------+ |_Maximum keywords: disposal; feet; field; figure; joint; pipe; septic; sewage; sewer; soil; tank; tile; water; | +; | | cache: 62605.txt plain text: 62605.txt item: #73 of 79 id: 62676 author: Smith, Theobald title: Sewage Disposal on the Farm, and Protection of Drinking Water date: None words: 8260 flesch: 73 summary: Besides the protection of the ground-water near the well from pollution emanating from cesspools, etc., the surface of the ground about the well should be kept free from manure, slops, and other waste water; hence the well should not be dug under or close by the house,[3] nor should it be located in the barnyard, where the ground is usually saturated with manure. In the city the sanitary condition of homes is maintained chiefly by a system of cooperation and centralization which brings into existence extensive sewerage systems, water supplies, and the collection of house waste by public authority. keywords: closet; country; dry; earth; ground; house; sewage; soil; surface; water; wells cache: 62676.txt plain text: 62676.txt item: #74 of 79 id: 62715 author: Stockberger, W. W. (Warner Webster) title: Drug Plants Under Cultivation date: None words: 27351 flesch: 72 summary: Knowledge respecting the cultivation and handling of medicinal-plant crops is far less widespread than in the case of such generally distributed crops as fruits, vegetables, and cereals, and certain individuals have taken advantage of this lack of information to lead the public to believe that extraordinary profits may be realized from growing medicinal plants, even in a situation no more promising than the average city back yard. [Illustration] This Bulletin gives general suggestions relative to the culture, harvesting, distillation, yield, marketing, and commercial prospects for drug plants. keywords: acre; cents; crop; cultivation; drug; drug plants; herb; inches; june; leaves; plants; pound; price; roots; rows; seed; soil; sown; spring; year; yield cache: 62715.txt plain text: 62715.txt item: #75 of 79 id: 62782 author: Coe, H. S. title: Sweet Clover: Utilization date: None words: 13494 flesch: 77 summary: | of | per | hay. | hay. keywords: acre; alfalfa; clover; clover hay; corn; crop; experiment; growth; hay |; plants; second; | +; | | cache: 62782.txt plain text: 62782.txt item: #76 of 79 id: 63165 author: Westgate, J. M. (John Minton) title: Crimson Clover: Growing the Crop date: None words: 5333 flesch: 69 summary: Crimson clover seeded in mixtures: Barley and crimson clover 3,695 pounds. Wheat and crimson clover 3,771 pounds. Oats and crimson clover 4,228 pounds. Crimson clover may be seeded in mixtures with vetch, shaftal clover, trefoil, or, in fact, any winter-growing legume which has a growing season similar to crimson clover. keywords: clover; corn; crimson; crop; growth; seeding; soil cache: 63165.txt plain text: 63165.txt item: #77 of 79 id: 63166 author: Kephart, Leonard Wheeler title: Growing Crimson Clover date: None words: 7477 flesch: 69 summary: Examination of the plants discloses a rotting off or decay of the stems close to the ground, followed immediately by the appearance on the stems of small black lumps, or sclerotia, about the size of clover seed. August and September are the best months for sowing crimson clover, the exact date depending upon the condition of the soil. keywords: clover; corn; crimson; crop; seed; seeding; soil; stand; winter cache: 63166.txt plain text: 63166.txt item: #78 of 79 id: 63169 author: Hollowell, E. A. (Eugene Amos) title: Crimson Clover [1938] date: None words: 2664 flesch: 66 summary: The first growth of the mixture may be grazed or harvested for hay or for crimson clover seed, while the second crop is wholly red clover. The seed is yellow, slightly larger, and more rounding than red clover seed. keywords: clover; crop; seed; soil cache: 63169.txt plain text: 63169.txt item: #79 of 79 id: 63170 author: Hollowell, E. A. (Eugene Amos) title: Crimson Clover [1947] date: None words: 3134 flesch: 69 summary: The first growth of the mixture may be grazed or harvested for hay or for crimson clover seed, while the second crop is wholly red clover. Many troublesome weeds are difficult to separate from crimson clover seed, including field peppergrass (_Lepidium campestre_), wintercress (_Barbarea praecox_), and the bulblets of wild onion (_Allium_ spp.), which are probably the worst. keywords: clover; crimson; crop; seed; soil cache: 63170.txt plain text: 63170.txt