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
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014017048

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The Nature of the Future

The Nature of the Future
Author: Emily Pawley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226820025

"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"--

Official Report

Official Report
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1902
Genre: California Fruit Growers' Convention
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1888
Genre: Botany
ISBN:

Prairie Farmer

Prairie Farmer
Author: Jay Ambrose Wight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 828
Release: 1852
Genre: Agricultural education
ISBN:

"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:
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1849
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

"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
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2013
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1845937015

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.