The primer of irrigation by Anderson D. H

Author:Anderson, D. H. [from old catalog] & Union Pacific railway company. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Irrigation
Publisher: Chicago, Irrigation age company
Published: 1910-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

gives an estimate of the nnmber of pounds of barbed wire required to fence the space or distance mentioned, with one, two or three lines of wire, based upon each pound of wire measuring one rod (16i/^ feet) :

Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. 1 side of a square mile.320 640 900

1 rod in length 1 2 3

100 rods in length 100 200 300

100 feet in length 6 1/16 12 1/8 18 3/16

METHODS OF PLANTING.

It must not be supposed that this part of the present chapter will exhaust the subject of methods of planting. The subject is too large and important to be treated in one place, and it is therefore distributed in other chapters to follow. But it is all important to consider the nature of the plant which it is purposed to grow, and plant the seed in such manner that it will have room to grow and develop its seed or fruit. If the previous chapters have been carefully read the reader will remember that great stress was laid upon the fact that all plants are great feeders, and that they are so by instinct, and to attempt to compel them to abstain from their proper food, or limit their food supply on the ground of economy or indifference, or upon the supposition that they will grow anyhow, is to reduce the product of that plant proportionately. It is always a losing plan to restrict the food of plants, for that means stunting their growth.

Now, whether the seed be sown broadcast, planted in drills, or the young plant transplanted, care must be taken that the roots have space to spread, or reach out for the required food. If they have not then they rob each other and fail to produce as desired. Plants are _ cannibalistic in their customs and must not be humored in the slightest degree.

There is a curious fact about the growth of plants which may not be out of place here, inasmuch as it

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