FARMS
(See also Agriculture; Conservation; Fertilizers; Kingdom Farm; Soil)
accidents: g73 8/8 30; g59 10/8 12
aerial photography: g67 11/22 14
Africa:
new yoke to enable one ox to do the work of two: g83 11/8 30
agricultural communities: g55 9/8 20
alfalfa: g79 6/22 24-26
ants that farm: ce 156
average age of farmers: g61 7/22 31
Bahamas: g56 3/22 17-19
basic crops: g76 9/8 30
beef: w74 196-197; g73 6/22 20, 23-24
blood fertilizer: w64 128
California:
crops: g80 2/8 31
Canada: g70 3/22 12-15
commodity market: g75 6/22 12-13
crop dusting: g63 11/8 14
cultivating deserts: w74 624; ts 135-136; g71 9/22 30; g70 10/8 20; g67 9/8 11; g65 6/22 8-11; g63 6/8 10-11
discussion: g75 6/22 9-13; g53 11/8 21-24; g47 11/22 21-23; g46 10/8 23-24; g31 8/19 739-748
donkeys preferred over tractors: g85 5/8 31
earth’s potential: ts 135-136; g74 11/8 29-30
ecology: g62 1/22 11; g55 3/8 16; g54 5/22 12-16; g50 9/8 20-23
effect of petroleum shortage: w74 197; g74 1/8 29
Egypt (ancient): g53 6/22 11
experiments with temperature and light: g65 3/8 11-12
farm vacations: g68 7/22 23-24
fertilizers: g75 3/8 31; g74 5/22 10-11; g74 10/8 31; g72 5/8 30; g72 7/22 7; g71 4/22 12; g71 10/22 29-30; g71 11/22 29-30; g70 6/22 17; g69 11/22 20-22; g68 11/22 13-14; g67 2/22 21-24; g66 1/22 23; g63 6/8 22; g63 7/8 15; w62 295; g61 9/8 22; g61 9/22 30; g60 3/8 18-19; w57 92; g57 2/8 16; g50 11/22 8-12; g50 12/8 10-12; g47 11/22 21-23; g35 2/13 314; g35 4/24 470
pig manure: g78 2/8 30-31
giant vegetables: g75 12/22 30
grain production: g75 6/22 9; g74 7/22 3-4, 30
high-yield grain: g71 3/22 29
green revolution: g74 6/22 6-7; tp73 13-14; g73 2/22 29; g73 5/8 29; g73 5/22 30; g72 7/22 3-13, 29
hay: g46 5/8 27; g35 2/13 315
history of the plow: g49 9/8 11
horses:
cost of: g76 7/8 30
implements: ad 566-567
income: g74 9/8 29; g73 3/8 30; g73 5/8 30
insect control: g63 11/8 14; g62 1/22 9-12; g62 6/22 30
pesticides: g72 5/8 30; g72 8/8 31; g71 4/22 11-12; g71 9/22 29; g70 1/8 30; g70 6/8 21-24; g70 6/22 30; g70 7/8 30; g70 12/22 3-4, 31; g68 11/22 12-13; g68 12/22 29
sprays: g60 3/8 18-19; g47 5/8 22-24; g47 11/22 21; g34 3/14 374; g33 1/4 211-213; g33 3/29 410; g33 8/2 702-703
irrigation: g75 3/8 29; g72 7/22 8; g71 1/22 29; g68 3/22 24-26; g65 6/22 8-11, 30; g63 6/8 10, 12, 20-21
Israel (ancient): ad 41-42
land used for: g74 6/22 10; g74 7/22 7
cost: g75 6/22 10-11; g74 3/8 29
shrinking: g80 6/22 30; g80 8/22 6
livestock: g59 10/22 17-19; g46 11/22 22-23; g43 7/7 26
mechanization: g53 11/8 21-24
waste in mechanized: g75 12/8 30
mixed culture: g71 5/22 17-20
modern: g73 6/22 23-24
North America:
regions: g59 9/8 18-20
orchards: g60 3/8 17-20; g34 3/14 374
organic:
benefits of: g81 1/8 29; g62 1/22 12
fertilizers: g67 2/22 21-22
ostrich farms: g79 6/22 20-23
paid not to: g73 5/22 30
percent of population engaged in: g75 6/22 9; w74 197; g74 7/8 29-30; g70 4/22 31; g69 10/22 8; g69 11/8 6; g68 5/22 29; g62 8/8 9
planting by moon: g54 7/8 17-19; g31 4/1 426-427
plowing: ad 1317
plowless: g76 4/22 30; g76 10/8 30
problems: g75 6/22 10-11; g74 3/8 6-7, 29; g73 12/8 29-30
of surplus: g63 7/8 29; g62 5/22 3; g62 8/8 9-12; g60 6/8 13-16; g58 5/8 20; g56 2/8 3-4; g56 3/8 14-16
profits: g65 10/8 29
profit incentive: g75 6/22 11-13
radioisotopes: g59 7/8 10-11; g56 7/22 15; g52 12/22 15
refuge farms: w48 58; w41 223
rice: g72 7/22 3-4, 7-8; g69 2/22 16-19
rooftop: g73 11/22 30
seas: g72 5/22 26; g71 11/8 17-19; g68 4/8 15-16
sheep dairy farm: g69 9/22 23
soil: g71 5/22 17-18; g70 3/8 19; g67 2/22 23-24; g66 1/22 20-23; g65 6/22 8-10; g64 4/8 16; g63 6/8 20-23; g62 1/22 11; g60 3/8 19; g54 5/22 12, 15; g50 12/8 9-12; g31 8/19 740
Soviet Union: w75 241-242; g35 6/5 574
working hours: g76 12/8 29-30
sowing and reaping: ad 1375-1376, 1538-1540; w68 521
surplus destroyed: g71 12/22 30
threshing: ad 1595-1596
tractors: g77 9/22 30; g68 11/8 30
truck gardening: g31 3/4 377
tunnel farming: g79 12/22 12-15
United States: g75 6/22 9-13; g74 6/22 29; g73 6/22 16-17; g71 5/22 29
average age of farmers: g76 6/8 30
decline in number: g77 8/22 29; g77 12/22 30; g74 10/8 30
number of farmers: g77 8/22 29
rise in value of farmland: g76 12/22 29
shrinking farmland: g82 4/22 30; g80 6/22 30
start-up costs: g76 6/8 30
use of weeder geese: g78 10/22 30
vegetable garden: g74 5/22 9-12
Watchtower Society’s: g82 3/22 29; g79 6/22 29; yb75 244; km 5/75 4; w73 313-315; g73 6/22 20-24; yb71 64-65; yb70 78-79; yb69 60-61; w68 279; yb68 65-66; km 9/68 1; w67 761; yb67 67; jp 183-184, 203; w55 651-652; w46 79; g41 6/25 16-20; w35 304
number of workers: yb79 10
windmills: g76 8/8 30; g75 9/22 30
winnowing: ad 1660
working hours:
law in Soviet Union: g76 12/8 29-30