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Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement

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Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement

by Alva Agee

English· 04:51:57· 23 chapters
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

  1. Chapter 1

    Introduction

    13:44
  2. Chapter 2

    The Need of Lime

    13:47
  3. Chapter 3

    Applying Lime

    16:12
  4. Chapter 4

    Organic Matter

    11:14
  5. Chapter 5

    The Clovers

    14:58
  6. Chapter 6

    Alfalfa

    14:07
  7. Chapter 7

    Grass Sods

    10:51
  8. Chapter 8

    Grass Sods (Continued)

    11:18
  9. Chapter 9

    Sods for Pastures

    10:03
  10. Chapter 10

    The Cowpea

    10:52
  11. Chapter 11

    Other Legumes and Cereal Catch Crops

    13:33
  12. Chapter 12

    Stable Manure

    11:01
  13. Chapter 13

    Care of Stable Manure

    11:26
  14. Chapter 14

    The Use of Stable Manure

    12:29
  15. Chapter 15

    Crop-rotations

    12:56
  16. Chapter 16

    The Need of Commercial Fertilizers

    13:36
  17. Chapter 17

    Commercial Sources of Plant-food

    20:29
  18. Chapter 18

    Purchasing Plant-food

    11:29
  19. Chapter 19

    Home-mixing of Fertilizers

    13:07
  20. Chapter 20

    Mixtures for Crops

    13:23
  21. Chapter 21

    Tillage

    11:39
  22. Chapter 22

    Control of Soil Moisture

    08:10
  23. Chapter 23

    Drainage

    11:33