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classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. Horticulturists work in plant propagation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic engineering...

death of the trees may result not only from the loss of sap, but from the work of borers that deposit eggs in the holes. If the sapsuckers are to be destroyed...

were stored near the cattle shed and used to absorb urine from the work cattle. This soil was spread about six inches deep in the cattle stalls and loafing...

twentieth century saw massive changes in agricultural practice, particularly in agricultural chemistry. Agricultural chemistry includes the application of...

bedding. On some ecological or organic operations, livestock such as sheep or cattle are allowed to graze on the plants. Processing of rapeseed for oil production...

The practices have not been worked out nearly so fully in the East as in the West. Almost no well- planned experimental work has been conducted, and opinions...

extended through a number of years, since the work of Powell with apples in 1901-1902. There has been more work with apples than with other fruits but studies...

but even his work had little bearing on practical plant-breeding. The systematic breeding of plants may be said to have begun with the work of Knight and...

petitioned the United States Department of Agriculture to require meat packers to remove spinal cords before processing cattle carcasses for human consumption, a...

effect. The cake which remains after the oil has been expressed is used as a cattle-food and as a fertilizer. To a large extent, the nuts are strung on the...