Fifty Third Annual Report Of The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station

Author : Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365794004
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts for the Year Ending June 30, 1912 written by Agricultural Experiment Station and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts for the Year Ending June 30, 1912: Including Scientific and Other Papers and Bulletins, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223 The work of this Division has advanced dining the year along the same general lines as previously reported; chief attention having been devoted to the corn suckers and soil fertility investigations. In the former investigation an effort is being made to determine the cause of the development of suckers on the corn plant and the relation their pro duction, and prolificacy in ears, sustain to total yield of shelled corn per stalk under different degrees of soil fertility in different seasons. It will also furnish a means by which the correlation between types of corn and different degrees of fertility of the soil will be made and at the same time furnish material for a detailed study of the characters of the corn plant. For this investigation eight varieties, representing the three common types, viz., one -eared, medium prolific, and very prolific, of dent corn have been chosen. The eight are each planted under seven different conditions of soil fertility, varying approximately from land that will produce ten to eighty or one hundred bushels per acre. The differences are brought about in the land by the use of different quantities of stable manure and commercial fertilizer. In each set there are thirty two rows, four to each variety, two from which the suckers are re moved and two on which they are allowed to grow. By this means a comparison will be obtained that will Show the effects of the undis turbed production of suckers upon yield and other characters of the corn plant under different degrees of fertility of the soil. The grada tion in the fertility of the soil in the different sets will provide an opportunity for a comparison of the relative productivity of the three general types of dent corn, as represented by the eight varieties in cluded in the studies, when grown under the different degrees of fertility. It has been found generally that the yield of grain and stover per stalk, and hence per acre, has been greater with all varieties where the suckers were allowed to remain than where they were removed at the usual stage of development. 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.