Research Catalog

Title

The wheat plant: its origin, culture, growth, development, composition, varieties, diseases, etc., etc. Together with a few remarks on Indian corn, its culture, etc., by John H. Klippart. One hundred illustrations.

Author

Klippart, John H. (John Hancock), 1823-1878

Publication

Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1860.

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Description

vi, 7-706 p. illus.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Corn
• Triticum
• Wheat
• Zea mays

Note

• Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms [n.d.] (American culture series, Reel 60.2)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- General view of the organic world -- Cereals and grasses -- History of the wheat plant -- Origin of the wheat plant -- Structure and composition of the wheat grain -- Germination of the wheat plant -- Origin and constituents of soils -- Nutrition of the wheat plant -- Experiments of Salm Horstmarr on the growth of plants in inorganic artificial soils; also, those of Weigmann and Polstorff -- Experiments of Gilbert and Lawes -- Growth of the wheat plant -- Botanical description of the wheat plant -- Wheat regions of the world -- Culture of wheat -- Exhaustion of soils -- Management of soils -- Improvement of soils -- Description and classification of varieties of wheat -- Wheats in Ohio -- Diseases and enemies of wheat -- Animal parasites affecting the wheat plant -- History of corn -- Index.

LCCN

^^^11032771^

OCLC

2099554

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library