About this book
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
1Introduction
2The Need of Lime
3Applying Lime
4Organic Matter
5The Clovers
6Alfalfa
7Grass Sods
8Grass Sods (Continued)
9Sods for Pastures
10The Cowpea
11Other Legumes and Cereal Catch Crops
12Stable Manure
13Care of Stable Manure
14The Use of Stable Manure
15Crop-rotations
16The Need of Commercial Fertilizers
17Commercial Sources of Plant-food
18Purchasing Plant-food
19Home-mixing of Fertilizers
20Mixtures for Crops
21Tillage
22Control of Soil Moisture
23Drainage

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