Author: Frank Duane Gardner
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781333746223
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Excerpt from Farm Crops, Their Cultivation and Management: A Non-Technical Manual for the Cultivation, Management and Improvement of Farm Crops This book makes a popular appeal to all men engaged in farming, whether amateurs or professionals. It is designed to be a handy reference work on the cultivation and management of farm crops. Technical terms and lengthy discussions have been avoided. Ages of farm experience and a few generations of agricultural research have given us a vast store of practical knowledge on tilling the soil and raising crops. This knowledge is scattered through many different volumes on different phases of the subject, in experiment station bulletins, agri cultural journals and encyclopedias. The important facts on which the most successful farming is based are here brought together in readable form. The subject-matter is arranged in three parts, the first dealing with the various farm crops, their selection and cultivation; the second with the diseases of farm crops and their remedies, insect pests and their control, and insecticides and fungicides; and the third includes valuable tables of agricultural statistics showing the cost per acre of producing farm crops, the fertility of farm produce, percentage composition of agricultural products and so forth. Each department has been prepared by a specialist in the subject presented, and his name appears at the beginning of each chapter. Those unacknowledged have been prepared by myself. References are given here and there to books and pamphlets that may be helpful to the farmer who wishes to have more exhaustive information on specific subjects. The illustrations have been secured from many sources. Due credit has been given these. Special acknowledgment is due the publishers of this volume and the other volumes in the series for their conception and for many helpful suggestions in the presentation of the subject-matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
