Proceedings of the ... Congress of Fruit Growers; 1849

Proceedings of the ... Congress of Fruit Growers; 1849

Author: National Convention of Fruit Growers

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781014017048

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The Nature of the Future

The Nature of the Future

Author: Emily Pawley

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-06-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0226820025

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"In the seemingly mundane Northern farm of early America and the people who sought to improve its productivity and efficiency, Emily Pawley finds a world rich with innovative practices and marked by a developing interrelationship between scientific knowledge, industrial methods, and capitalism. Agricultural "improvers" became increasingly scientistic, driving tremendous increases in the range and volume of agricultural output-and transforming American conceptions of expertise, success, and exploitation. Pawley's focus on soil, fertilizer, apples, mulberries, agricultural fairs, and experimental stations shows each nominally dull subject to have been an area of intellectual ferment and sharp contestation: mercantile, epistemological, and otherwise"--


Prairie Farmer

Prairie Farmer

Author: Jay Ambrose Wight

Publisher:

Published: 1852

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13:

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"A leading agricultural magazine founded by the Union Agricultural Society of Chicago and a champion of farmers' rights ... Besides articles on agriculture, horticulture, and stock raising, it provided general and market news, a children's column, and departments dealing with health, household problems, and veterinary medicine." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.


The Prairie Farmer

The Prairie Farmer

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1849

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13:

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"A leading agricultural magazine founded by the Union Agricultural Society of Chicago and a champion of farmers' rights ... Besides articles on agriculture, horticulture, and stock raising, it provided general and market news, a children's column, and departments dealing with health, household problems, and veterinary medicine." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.


The Avocado

The Avocado

Author: Bruce A. Schaffer

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 1845937015

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This book is comprised of 15 chapters covering principles and basic understanding in avocado science, technology, best management practices and postharvest aspects. It is aimed at avocado researchers, libraries, teachers and academics, students, advisers, cutting edge growers and industry support personnel. Topics discussed include the history, distribution, uses, taxonomy, botany, genetics, breeding, ecology, reproductive biology, ecophysiology, cultivars and rootstocks, propagation, biotechnology, irrigation and mineral nutrition, crop management, foliar, fruit and soil-borne diseases, insect and mite pests and harvesting, packing, postharvest technology, transport and processing.