Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
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Introduction
13:44 -
The Need of Lime
13:47 -
Applying Lime
16:12 -
Organic Matter
11:14 -
The Clovers
14:58 -
Alfalfa
14:07 -
Grass Sods
10:51 -
Grass Sods (Continued)
11:18 -
Sods for Pastures
10:03 -
The Cowpea
10:52 -
Other Legumes and Cereal Catch Crops
13:33 -
Stable Manure
11:01 -
Care of Stable Manure
11:26 -
The Use of Stable Manure
12:29 -
Crop-rotations
12:56 -
The Need of Commercial Fertilizers
13:36 -
Commercial Sources of Plant-food
20:29 -
Purchasing Plant-food
11:29 -
Home-mixing of Fertilizers
13:07 -
Mixtures for Crops
13:23 -
Tillage
11:39 -
Control of Soil Moisture
8:10 -
Drainage
11:33
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement (1912) is a public domain work.
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Written in 1912 by Alva Agee, then head of agricultural extension at the Pennsylvania State College, this practical guide sets out how a farmer can make tired land productive again and keep it that way. Agee writes for the working owner who expects the soil to pay, and he says plainly that farming which leads into debt is poor farming, however well the land may do.
The chapters move through lime and soil acidity, with a simple litmus-paper test, then the clovers, alfalfa, grass sods, pastures, the cowpea, the soybean and cereal catch crops. Later sections cover stable manure and how to save its value, crop rotations, commercial fertilizers, home-mixing of plant-food, tillage, the control of soil moisture and the laying of drain tile.
Photographs of farms in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia show the methods at work. Gardeners and small growers interested in cover crops, liming and building organic matter will find the reasoning clear, and the book offers a close view of American farm practice before chemical farming took hold.
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