Five Acres and IndependenceDover Publications, 1940 - 397 Seiten Everyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will derive from Maurice Grenville Kains' practical and easy-to-understand discussions a more complete view of what small-scale farming means. Countless readers of Five Acres and Independence have come away with specific projects to begin and moved closer to the fulfillment of their dreams of independence on a small farm. |
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... humus and by watering or irrigation . Soluble salts in fertilizers in the surface foot of soil tend to draw water ... humus in adequate supply . Tillage operations permit particles of humus to wedge themselves between the mineral ...
... humus , lavish feeding and irrigation . Medium sandy loams are not quite so early but retain water and plant food better and are more productive . Fine sandy loams , though later than the preceding are usually best for summer vegetables ...
... humus but it adds appreciable quan- tities of plant food to the soil . In the 1928 Department of Agriculture Year Book , W. R. Mattoon gives the analysis of a ton as including 12.1 pounds of ammonia , 2.8 of phosphoric acid and 3.9 of ...
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CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
TRIED AND TRUE WAYS TO FAIL | 7 |
FIGURES DONT LIE | 15 |
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