Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
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
Genre(s): Nature, Earth Sciences
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Introduction | KHand |
00:13:44 |
| Play 02 | The Need of Lime | KHand |
00:13:47 |
| Play 03 | Applying Lime | KHand |
00:16:12 |
| Play 04 | Organic Matter | KHand |
00:11:14 |
| Play 05 | The Clovers | KHand |
00:14:58 |
| Play 06 | Alfalfa | KHand |
00:14:07 |
| Play 07 | Grass Sods | KHand |
00:10:51 |
| Play 08 | Grass Sods (Continued) | KHand |
00:11:18 |
| Play 09 | Sods for Pastures | KHand |
00:10:03 |
| Play 10 | The Cowpea | KHand |
00:10:52 |
| Play 11 | Other Legumes and Cereal Catch Crops | KHand |
00:13:33 |
| Play 12 | Stable Manure | KHand |
00:11:01 |
| Play 13 | Care of Stable Manure | KHand |
00:11:26 |
| Play 14 | The Use of Stable Manure | KHand |
00:12:29 |
| Play 15 | Crop-rotations | KHand |
00:12:56 |
| Play 16 | The Need of Commercial Fertilizers | KHand |
00:13:36 |
| Play 17 | Commercial Sources of Plant-food | KHand |
00:20:29 |
| Play 18 | Purchasing Plant-food | KHand |
00:11:29 |
| Play 19 | Home-mixing of Fertilizers | KHand |
00:13:07 |
| Play 20 | Mixtures for Crops | KHand |
00:13:23 |
| Play 21 | Tillage | KHand |
00:11:39 |
| Play 22 | Control of Soil Moisture | KHand |
00:08:10 |
| Play 23 | Drainage | KHand |
00:11:33 |