1941 FARM SOIL MANAGEMENT/ PLOWING /211 Illust./VG+
Description: A.F. Gustafson SOILS AND SOIL MANAGEMENT New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1941, 6 x 9 in., 424 pp. 165 illustrations, photos and diagrams.
Information: A comprehensive and standard manual for the farmer and the manager of cultivated soil, written just after the Dust Bowl days by a Cornell Professor. Chapters include the Origin and Placement of Soil Materials and Soil Formation; The Physical Properties of Soils; Soil Organisms; The Organic Matter of Mineral Soils; The Relation of Water to Soils and Plants; The Control of Water in the Soil Tillage of the Soil; Erosion of the Soil; The Control of Soil Erosion; Soil Acidity and its Control by Liming; The Management of Alkali Soils; Nitrogen and its Importance to the Farmer; The Production, Conservation, and Utilization of Farm Manures; The Production and Utilization of Green-Manure Crops; Fertilizer Materials and their effects on Soils and Crops; Commercial Fertilizers and their Use; The Rotation of Crops; The Fertilization and the Long-Term Maintenance of The Productivity of Mineral Soils; The Origin of Organic Deposits and Peat Soils and their Management; Common and Scientific Names of Certain Plants; Table of Equivalents and Formulas.
An interesting and useful book for the small farmer or the collector of books on agriculture, geology, soil erosion, fertilization, cultivation, rural life, farm implements, husbandry, gardening, vegetables, etc.
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