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This book is not a technical treatise and is designed only to point out the plain, every-day facts in the natural scheme of making and keeping soils productive. It is concerned with the crops, methods, and fertilizers that favor the soil. The viewpoint, all the time, is that of the practical man who wants cash compensation for the intelligent care he gives to his land...Experiment stations and practical farmers have developed a dependable science within recent years, and there is no jarring of observed facts when we get hold of the simple philosophy of it all. Summary from the Introduction
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction
13:44 - Chapter 2
The Need of Lime
13:47 - Chapter 3
Applying Lime
16:12 - Chapter 4
Organic Matter
11:14 - Chapter 5
The Clovers
14:58 - Chapter 6
Alfalfa
14:07 - Chapter 7
Grass Sods
10:51 - Chapter 8
Grass Sods (Continued)
11:18 - Chapter 9
Sods for Pastures
10:03 - Chapter 10
The Cowpea
10:52 - Chapter 11
Other Legumes and Cereal Catch Crops
13:33 - Chapter 12
Stable Manure
11:01 - Chapter 13
Care of Stable Manure
11:26 - Chapter 14
The Use of Stable Manure
12:29 - Chapter 15
Crop-rotations
12:56 - Chapter 16
The Need of Commercial Fertilizers
13:36 - Chapter 17
Commercial Sources of Plant-food
20:29 - Chapter 18
Purchasing Plant-food
11:29 - Chapter 19
Home-mixing of Fertilizers
13:07 - Chapter 20
Mixtures for Crops
13:23 - Chapter 21
Tillage
11:39 - Chapter 22
Control of Soil Moisture
08:10 - Chapter 23
Drainage
11:33