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Автор: Burt C.Buffum
Год: 2012
Издание:
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Страниц: 82
ISBN: 1159628416
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...the digestion of the animals and causing urinary troubles. With more moderate feeding, flax has found a place in Western farming. Under irrigation, flax does not stand much Culture water. It should be irrigated lightly and never flooded too long. Average yields are fifteen to eighteen bushels per acre; but maximum yields of twenty-eight bushels have been known. Sixteen bushels per acre have been grown at altitudes of over seven thousand feet, and flax from that locality took a medal at the Chicago World's Fair. If cut early enough, often a second growth will spring up, which is valuable for fall feed. If raised for the grain, sow twenty pounds or twenty-five pounds of seed per acre. Where grown for flax fibre, it should be planted thick, using forty or fifty pounds of seed. Sow...
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