The fires lit by the breeders have changed part of the primitive forest into a scrub which has been invaded by a leguminous climbing fodder, and it has superior pastoral capacity to the forest.
The crop rotation for the average cotton farmer should include oats, corn, some cotton, and at least one leguminous crop.
The oat and vetch hay provides a much more satisfactory ration for horses and mules than corn or leguminous hay.
The lower animals are in general fed upon the grain of oats, of barley, and of the leguminous plants, and the use of wheat is almost completely restricted to the human family.
The Lentils, the Birdsfoot, the Trefoil, and the Melilot are leguminous plants which occasionally are found as constituents of forage crops.
The straws of the cereal and leguminous plants are a striking illustration of the erroneous opinions and practices which prevail amongst agriculturists with respect to particular branches of their calling.
Anderson, chemist to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, have made a large number of analyses of the straws of the cereal and leguminous plants, the results of which are of the highest interest to the agriculturist.
The seeds of the bean, of the pea, and of several other leguminous plants, are largely made use of as food for both man and the domesticated animals.
In the seeds of leguminous and a few other kinds of plants large quantities of a substance termed legumin are found.
Plants of the gramincous, the leguminous and of other families were operated upon.
The results show that, unlike leguminous crops such as beans or clover, wheat may be successfully grown for many years in succession on ordinary arable land, provided suitable manures be applied and the land be kept clean.
Other essential conditions of success will commonly include the liberal application of potash and phosphatic manures, and sometimes chalking or liming for the leguminous crop.
Leguminous family, but is placed in a different section.
The farmer therefore arranges his cropping in such a way that roots, or leguminous crops, succeed the cereal crops.
The remainder, that in the straw, as well as that in the roots and the leguminous crops, is supposed to be retained on the farm, excepting the small amount exported in meat and milk.
There is some cultivation here of potatoes, and of Rhysicosia vestita a beautiful purple-flowered leguminous plant, with small tuberous roots.
Chesnut and walnut here appeared, with some leguminous trees, which however did not ascend to 6000 feet.
In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants.
A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities.
Similarly I see great possibilities in the interplanting of some leguminous crop tree such as the honey locust or the Kentucky coffee bean in our nut orchards.
The shade trees serve also to check soil erosion; and in the case of the leguminous kinds, to furnish nutriment to the soil.
A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp.
But if a little water in which arable soil had been shaken up was added to the sand, then the leguminous plants flourished in the absence of nitrates and showed an increase in nitrogenous material.
Balsam of Peru is the produce of a lofty leguminous tree, Myroxylon Pereirae, growing within a limited area in San Salvador, Central America and introduced into Ceylon.
Now these peculiar nodules are a normal characteristic of the roots of leguminous plants grown in ordinary soil.
The apparent specialization of these bacteria to the leguminous plants has always been a very striking fact, for similar bacterial nodules are known only in two or three cases outside this particular group.
Hence leguminous plants are essential in all rotation of crops.
It characterizes leguminous plants, as the bean and pea (fig.
In many leguminous plants, such as Ornithopus, Hedysarum (fig.
Next to this are various leguminousand other plants, which do not interfere with the rice.
It has grown out of the discovery of the dependence of leguminous plants on bacteria which live on their roots.
The method is to propagate bacteria for each of the various leguminous plants such as clover, alfalfa, soy beans, cow peas, tares, and velvet beans.
In most cases little fertilization is needed except the planting of clover or some other leguminous crop.
This species bears the smallest flowers of any British leguminous plant.
Of exogenous trees, the majority were leguminous in some shape or other, forming flowers like a pea or vetch and hanging their seed in pods; yet in shape and foliage they distanced far the most splendid ornaments of an English park.
A small genus of highly ornamental leguminous shrubs, from Australia, having blue or purple flowers in axillary clusters, or very short racemes, alternate simple leaves, and short turgid pods.
The caterpillar feeds on leguminous plants, but especially upon the different species of Cassia.
The caterpillar feeds upon leguminous plants, and is especially common upon the Wistaria, which is grown about verandas, and on the common locust (Robinia pseudacacia).
The caterpillar feeds upon leguminous plants, especially upon the Wistaria and various species of Clitoria (Butterfly-pea).
The caterpillar feeds upon the lupine, and probably other leguminous plants.
The caterpillar feeds on oaks and leguminous plants of various species.
Wheat, oats, buckwheat and potatoes are produced in great abundance; leguminous plants are also largely cultivated, especially near Nantes.
