Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement

by Alva Agee

23 chapters4h 51mEnglish1912

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
824
2The Need of Lime
827
3Applying Lime
972
4Organic Matter
674
5The Clovers
898
6Alfalfa
847
7Grass Sods
651
8Grass Sods (Continued)
678
9Sods for Pastures
603
10The Cowpea
652
11Other Legumes and Cereal Catch Crops
813
12Stable Manure
661
13Care of Stable Manure
686
14The Use of Stable Manure
749
15Crop-rotations
776
16The Need of Commercial Fertilizers
816
17Commercial Sources of Plant-food
1229
18Purchasing Plant-food
689
19Home-mixing of Fertilizers
787
20Mixtures for Crops
803
21Tillage
699
22Control of Soil Moisture
490
23Drainage
693

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