Farm drainage / by C.G. Elliott.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elliott, C. G. (Charles Gleason), 1850-1926
Corporate Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1896.
Series:Farmers' bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) ; no. 40.
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Physical Description:24 pages : illustrations, diagram ; 23 cm.
With Note:Bound with: Alfalfa, or lucern -- Silos and silage -- Peach growing for market -- Meats: composition and cooking -- Potato culture -- Cotton seed and its products -- Kafir corn: characteristics, culture, and uses -- Spraying for fruit diseases -- Onion culture -- Fowls: care and feeding -- Facts about milk -- Sewage disposal on the farm, and the protection of drinking water -- Commercial fertilizers: composition and use -- Some insects injurious to stored grain -- Irrigation in humid climates -- Insects affecting the cotton plant -- The manuring of cotton -- Sheep feeding -- Sorghum as a forage crop -- Standard varieties of chickens -- The sugar beet: culture, seed development, manufacture, and statistics -- The sugar beet: culture, seed development, manufacture, and statistics (rev.) -- The sugar beet: culture, seed development, manufacture, and statistics (2nd rev.) -- How to grow mushrooms -- Some common birds in their relation to agriculture -- The dairy herd: its formation and management -- Experiment station work, I -- Butter making on the farm -- The soy bean as a forage crop -- Beekeeping -- Methods of curing tobacco.