Project Gutenberg 2022-04-11 Public domain in the USA. 119 Fabre, Jean-Henri 1823 1915 Fabre, Jean Henri Casimir Fabre, Henri Fabre, J. Henri Bicknell, Florence Constable 1858 1941 Field, Forest and Farm Things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers $aUnited States :$bThe Century Co.,$c1919. The staff of life -- The history of tobacco -- The origin of fertile soil -- Different kinds of soil -- Potash and phosphorus -- Phosphates and nitrogen -- Vegetation and the atmosphere -- Lime -- Lime in agriculture -- Plaster of paris -- Plaster of paris in agriculture -- Natural fertilizers: guano -- The stalk of the plant -- The root -- Buds -- Adventitious buds -- Bulbs and bulblets -- Tubers: starch -- Uses of starch -- History of the potato -- Ascending sap -- Descending sap -- Tree-pruning -- Pinching: bud-nipping -- Making fruit trees bear -- The seed -- The seed's food-supply -- Germination -- The blossom -- Pollen -- The grain of wheat -- Cultivated plants -- Different ways of propagating -- Layering -- Slipping -- Grafting -- Rotation of crops -- Land-drainage -- Paring and burning -- Wine-making -- The stag-beetle -- Sheath-winged insects -- The June-bug -- Caterpillars and butterflies -- Ants -- The ant-lion -- Venomous animals -- The phylloxera -- Nocturnal birds of prey -- The smaller birds -- Birds' nests -- Migration of birds -- Carrier-pigeons -- Some prehistoric animals -- The origin of coal -- The farmer's helpers. Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) https://archive.org/details/fieldforestfarmt00fabriala/page/n4/mode/2up 20200420112449fabre 1919 US en Natural history Agriculture QH Text Browsing: Cooking & Drinking Browsing: Nature/Gardening/Animals Browsing: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming 591482 591476 2024-08-28T04:58:27.398309 2023-09-29T06:02:16.209388 text/html text/html 577562 2022-04-11T18:11:21 text/html 2339212 2024-08-28T04:58:44.973774 application/epub+zip 2339640 2024-08-28T04:58:32.526823 application/epub+zip 376211 2024-08-28T04:58:29.356305 application/epub+zip 4288955 2024-08-28T04:58:53.817687 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4153479 2024-08-28T04:58:41.780742 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 444620 2022-09-30T14:10:34.331230 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 491668 491696 2024-08-28T04:58:26.032375 2023-09-29T06:02:14.911405 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 491482 2022-04-11T18:11:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20801 2024-08-28T04:58:54.001664 application/rdf+xml 15674 2024-08-28T04:58:29.550306 image/jpeg 2687 2024-08-28T04:58:29.453350 image/jpeg 182455 2022-04-11T18:11:22 application/octet-stream application/zip 2193749 2022-04-11T18:11:22 application/octet-stream application/zip 2197597 2024-08-28T04:58:27.582368 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia