Meadows and Pastures: A Compendium of the Grasses of Tennessee |
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Meadows and Pastures a Compendium of the Grasses of Tennessee J. B. (Joseph Buckner) Killebrew No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 12 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.
Page 45 - without exception, exhaust the soil, each of them in its own way, of the conditions for their reproduction." A field then, which produces more kindly after rotation, is not necessarily more fertile, but is in better physical condition. It has already been mentioned, that the mechanical effects of clover upon soils is not the least among its valuable properties. The reaction rendered possible by the penetration into the soil of the long...
Page 140 - I had believed in some of the great advantages of the pea-crop, and had even commenced its culture as a manuring crop. and on a large scale, it was not until I afterwards saw the culture, growth, and uses, in South Carolina, that I learned to estimate its value properly, and perhaps more fully than is done by any who. in this state, avail themselves so largely of some of its benefits. Since...
Page 56 - Lucerne, during the whole season, exceeds belief. It is no sooner mown than it pushes out fresh shoots, and wonderful as the growth of clover sometimes is, in a field that has been lately mown, that of Lucerne is far more rapid.
Page 105 - Timothy grass is a perennial plant, which renews itself by an annual formation of " bulbs," or perhaps, more correctly speaking, tubers, in which the vitality of the plant is concentrated during the winter. These form in whatever locality the plant is selected, without reference to dryness or moisture. From these proceed the stalks which support the leaves and head, and from the same source spread out the numerous fibres forming the true roots. 2. To insure a perfect development of...
Page 29 - Mr. Gould thinks the valuable qualities of this grass may be summed up as follows: "Its habit of coming early to maturity. Its rapid reproduction after cutting. Its wonderful adaptation to all domestic animals, which is shown by the extreme partiality they manifest for it. either alone or when mixed with other grasses; whether when used as green food for soiling, as hay, or as pasturage, in which latter state its stems are never allowed to ripen and wither like other grasses. Its beneficial influence...
Page 137 - ... labors and care to secure their benefits. Thus, for illustration, suppose the natural supplies of food for plants, furnished by the atmosphere, to be three-fourths of all received, and that one-fourth only of the growth of any crop is derived from the soil and its fertility. Still, a strict proportion between the amount of supplies from these two different sources does not the less exist. If the cultivator's land, at one time, from its natural or acquired fertility, affords to the growing crop...
Page 30 - For want of it they have to resort to toiling with green forage raised for the purpose. It fills all our cornfields, and many persons pull it out, which is a tedious process. It makes a sweet food, and horses are exceedingly fond of it, leaving the best hay to eat it. Should it be desired to secure a good crop of it, do not pasture the...
Page 41 - He thinks that gypsum exercises a chemical action upon the soil, which extends to any depth of it, and that in consequence of the chemical and mechanical modification of the earth, particles of certain nutritive elements become accessible to and available for the clover plant, which were not so before.
Page 28 - July 22d a sixth time, with ripe seed and three loads hay to the acre. Immediately after each cutting it was manured with liquid manure, the produce of each crop increasing with the temperature of the atmosphere, from three-quarters of a load, the first cutting, to three loads the last. He discontinued manuring now, thinking its growth would be terminated in bearing seed, but he afterwards cut four crops from it. On the 26th January following, it measured sixteen inches in height.