The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Farm That Won't Wear Out
by Cyril G. Hopkins
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George), 1866-1919
- Title
- The Farm That Won't Wear Out
- Credits
- Produced by Steve Solomon. HTML version by Al Haines.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- S: Agriculture
- Subject
- Fertilizers
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 4525
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4525
- Release Date
- October 1, 2003
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Farm That Won't Wear Out
- 2.By Cyril G. Hopkins — Preface
- 3.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I: What Goes To Make Up Permanent Fertility CHAPTER II: The Nitrogen Problem And Its Economical Solution CHAPTER III: Phosphorus: The Master Key To Permanent Agriculture CHAPTER IV: Permanent Soil Fertility: Its Relation to Profits and Future Values — CHAPTER I — WHAT GOES TO MAKE UP PERMANENT FERTILITY — Foods That Plants Live On — England's Best Lesson in Farming — Fertility in Normal Soils — Measuring Fertility Losses — The Liberation of Fertility — The Renewal of Fertility — Thirty Bushels for Potassium — Liming the Soil — CHAPTER II — THE NITROGEN PROBLEM AND ITS ECONOMICAL SOLUTION — 200 Per Cent for Nitrogen — Where Is Nitrogen? — Six Facts and a Question — How to Supply Nitrogen — Live-Stock or Grain Farming — CHAPTER III — PHOSPHORUS: THE MASTER KEY TO PERMANENT AGRICULTURE — Potato Yield Twice Doubled — Phosphorus Helps Good Farming — The Form of Phosphorus to Use — More Bushels and Tons — Making Phosphate Available — CHAPTER IV — PERMANENT SOIL FERTILITY — Its Relation to Profits and Future Values — Is Land a Safe Investment? — Some Broad Facts — The Value of Land — What Phosphorus Did on One Farm — "Working" the Land — Is the Soil Inexhaustible? — The Values in Land — Working Mind and Muscle — AUTHOR'S NOTE
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