THE ESSENTIALS OF AGRICULTURE

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Contents

1. The New Agriculture, 2. Better Plants and Animals, 3. How Plants Feed and Grow, 4. Plant Propagation, 5. The Soil and Its Management, 6. The Properties of Soils, 7. Plant Food in the Soil, 8. Maintaining Soil Fertility, 9. Barnyard Manure, 10. Commercial Fertilizers, 11. Relation of Type of Farming to Soil Fertility, 12. Drainage, Irrigation, and Dry Farming, 13. Corn, 14. The Small Grains, 15. Fiber Crops, 16. Grasses, 17. Legumes, 18. Forage Crops, 19. Roots and Tubers, 20. The Sugar Crop, 21. Tobacco, 22. Silos and Silage, 23. The Orchard Crop, 24. The Wood Crop, 25. Plant Diseases, 26. Insects on the Farm, 27. Spraying, 28. Feeding Animals, 29. Horses and Mules, 30. Dairy Cattle, 31. Dairy Products, 32. Beef Cattle, 33. Swine, 34. Sheep, 35. Poultry, 36. Business Aspects of Farming, 37. Mechanical Power for the Farm, 38. Appendixes, 39. Index.