IVANOV Sergey

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One time - marshal of the nobility and the president of the Smolensk Society of Agriculture. Name and. Sychevskii located in the county, near the village of plank. He paid great attention to developing the economy of all parties, in particular one of the first landowners began to sow flax, set out to make a profitable livestock industry. Many worked on the selection of forage crops, most suitable for this area. More than 50 host plants (foxtail, Grebennikov, cocksfoot, French rye, brome, turnips, sainfoin, lucerne, etc.), which first sowed in small areas (individual ridges), then transferred to field. In 1882, Mr.. I. experiments began seeding and silage corn, . which gave very comforting results: corn grew well on vegetable garden soil, . gave an abundant crop of green mass, . but it was "low and feeble" in the field, . and in some years, purchased on the side of the seeds were not even shoots,


. Vol.: Some breeding experiments are less common forage grasses in the province of Smolensk / / Agriculture and Forestry, 1884, April; divorced and silage corn / / Report Smolensky Society of Agriculture for 1883
. - Smolensk, 1884; corn for silage / / Report Smolensky Society of Agriculture for 1885. - Smolensk, 1886.

Lit.: From the historical experience of agriculture in the USSR. - M., 1969.