 | New Mexico State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1904 - 1046 pages
...irrigation, nearly one-half of the wheat plant consists of the seeds or wheat kernels. Knowing that about 750 pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter, it may be calculated that it will require 50 tons of water to produce one bushel of arid farm grain.''... | |
 | John Andreas Widtsoe - Irrigation - 1914 - 554 pages
...on a fertile soil under arid conditions, more than 750 pounds of water are seldom required. If 750 pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter, one bushel of wheat will require for its production 90,000 pounds, or forty-five tons, of water. On... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Agriculture - 1916 - 1554 pages
...leaves. A large tree will give off an immense amount of water daily from its leaves. Over three hundred pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter in a plant. Dry matter means what is left after every particle of water has been taken out. We now... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1916 - 1564 pages
...leaves. A large tree will give off an immense amount of water daily from its leaves. Over three hundred pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter in a plant. Dry matter means what is left after every particle of water has been taken out. We now... | |
 | William Timothy Stratton, Benjamin Luce Remick - Arithmetic - 1916 - 264 pages
...must be plowed along the side of the field to plow an acre ? Across the end ? s. Approximately 300 pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter of corn. How many gallons would be required to mature a shock of corn weighing 350 pounds ? 6. If an... | |
 | New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1916 - 1548 pages
...leaves.. A large tree will give off an immense amount of water daily from its leaves. Over three hundred pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter in a plant. Dry matter means what is left after every particle of water has been taken out. We now... | |
 | New Mexico State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1906 - 778 pages
...irrigation, nearly one-half of the wheat plant consists of the seeds or wheat kernels. Knowing that about 750 pounds of water are required to produce one pound of dry matter, it may be calculated that it will require 50 tons of water to produce one bushel of arid farm grain."... | |
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... to dissolve plant food. Grasses and other succulent plants contain not, less than seventy-five per cent, of water, fruits about ninety per cent. In addition, great quantities are evaporated by the leaves. A large tree will give off an immense amount... 