Publisher : Agri Horti Press Author : Alfred Stefferud Language : English Edition : Latest By Publishers Book Cover : Hard Back ISBN : 9789383285488
Table of Content
1. What Seeds Are and Do: An Introduction 3 Victor R. Boswell 2. How Seeds are Formed 17 John W. Mckay 3. The Greatest Service to any Country 25 Marguerite Gilstrap 4. Age-Old Uses of Seeds and Some New Ones 39 5. Producing Seed of Hybrid Corn and Grain Sorghum 55 John M. Airy
L. A. Tatum
and J. W. Sorenson
Jr. 6. Seeds of Oats
Barley
Wheat
and Rice 67 Harland Stevens and John R. Goss 7. Producing Seeds of the Legumes 76 M.W. Pedersen
L.G. Jones
and T. H. Rogers 8. Producing Seeds of Cotton and Other Fiber Crops 90 Billy M. Waddle and Rex F. Colwick 9. New Ways with Seeds of Sugarbeets 96 Dewey Stewart 10. Producing and Harvesting Tobacco Seed 106 James E. McMurtrey
Jr. 11. Growing Vegetable Seeds for Sale 109 Leslie R. Hawthorn 12. Seeds for Rootstocks of Fruit and Nut Trees 121 L.C. Cochran
W.C. Cooper
and Earle C. Blodgett 13. Pollination of Seed Crops by Insects 131 GeorgeE. Bohart and Frank E. Todd 14. Insecticides and Honey Bees 142 Frank E. Todd and S.E. McGregor 15. Some Insect Pests of Important Seed Crops 148 F. V. Lieberman
F.F. Dicke
and Orn A. Hills 16. Insects
Viruses
and Seed Crops 159 Orn A. Hills
Kenneth E. Gibson
and W.F. Rochow 17. Diseases that Seeds can Spread 168 K.W. Kreitlow
C.L. Lefebvre
J.T. Presley
and W.J. Zaumeyer 18. The Commercial Production of Seeds of Flowers 179 Howard Bodger 19. Collecting and Handling Seeds of Forest Trees 187 Paul O. Rudolf 20. Seed Treatments for Control of Disease 196 Earle W. Hanson
Earl D. Hansing
and W.T. Schroeder 21. The Control of Weeds in Seed Crops 209 W.C. Shaw and L.L. Danielson 22. The Seeds of Wild Flowers 219 P. L. Ricker 23. Why and How Seeds are Dried? 233 N. Robert Brandenburg
Joseph W. Simons
and Lloyd L. Smith 24. Equipment for Cleaning Seeds 248 Leonard M. Klein
James Henderson
and Abraham D. Stoesz
