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Suited Cultivation: Cultivation. Cultivation is an ancient vineyard practice. It destroys weeds and facilitates other vineyard operations such as irrigation. Contrary to common belief, cultivation does not conserve soil moisture; however, the resulting destruction of weeds does conserve moisture. Discs or chisel-tooth cultivators are used, although some vineyards are still plowed. Heavy disc harrows are used to turn under weeds and cover crops. Weeds have been and are sometimes controlled with oil sprays or chemicals, usually diuron or monuron.
A ranch is larger, and its maj.,: product is animal, produced on unplowed land called range. Usually, range remains unplowed because it is not suited cultivation to cultivation. Precipitation may be too low to support farm crops, the terrain may be mountainous, or the soil may be too poor or too shallow to farm. It should not be concluded, however, that farms are not important in livestock production. Actually, in the United States they produce more livestock than range-do. Farm feed may be hay and grain that is harvested and fed to penned livestock, or pasture forage which the animals harvest themselves by grazing.
Olericulture is the branch of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of vegetables of all kinds, for salads or cooking.
Ornamental horticulture is concerned with the cultivation of plants for their aesthetic or decorative value and includes annual and perennial plants, shrubs, vines and trees. |
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