Wheat Cotton Maize And The Manuring Of Other Crops In Egypt

Author : Gerald C. Dudgeon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333330514
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Work in Connection with Egyptian Wheat (Classic Reprint) written by Gerald C. Dudgeon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Work in Connection With Egyptian Wheat Apart from the above introductions of new seed, a systematic and careful study of the existing types of Wheat has been commenced in the Botanical Section with a view to elimination of useless or inferior kinds and the establishment of pure strains of those which gave promise of local or exterior commercial value. The consideration of Egyptian wheat as a possibly marketable product in European countries had to be carefully examined in View of the warnings received from the recurrence of maladies on cotton, against which the peculiar constitution of Egypt rendered it difficult to obtain timely protective legislation. It was necessary to prepare the markets of Europe for the reception of other Egyptian products in case the introduction of a new pest, or the inefficient control of an existing one, should make it impossible to continue to cultivate cotton remuneratively. The European markets knew little of any Egyptian agricultural product except cotton, all others, with the exception of a little rice, which went to Turkey, and beans, which found an occasional demand in Italy and France, being consumed in the country. With the outbreak of the European War, and the prospect of a reduced demand for cotton at a satisfactory price, the country was recommended to diminish the cotton area and to extend that under cereals, especially wheat. The opportunity of testing the inferences in connection With the value of Egyptian cereals for export made by the writer in 1913, in a paper read before the Congress of the Inter national Association of Tropical Agriculture, had now arrived. 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.