First Annual Report Of The Missouri State Board Of Agriculture PDF Download

Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, With an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies, to the General Assembly of Missouri, for the Year 1865 Certain soils are much better adapted to the perfect development of certain crops than others. Highly stimulating manures may produce an excessive growth of stalk or foliage, sometimes at the expense of the vitality and vigor of the seed. Overgrown vegetables are per haps generally not the best for seed. The seed of very large squashes have been found to produce, year after year, smaller and smaller specimens. It is now generally admitted that medium sized potatoes are the best for seed. Some seeds are improved by age; to what extent this may be the case, is not determined. It is admitted that seeds of the cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melon are improved by age up to about six years. It is important to prevent the hybridization of these varieties, and when a crop has been produced under such circumstances as to prevent the liability of mixing, a supply of seed sufficient to last a half dozen years should be safely stored away. Tobacco seed which has been kept for a long time, has been thought to be very prolific, but rather defective in foliage. The same fact has been noticed in connection with some kinds of grain which had been laid aside and forgotten for a long time, and afterwards used for seed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.