Practical Farming —— A Plain Book on Treatment of the Soil and Crop Production

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ISBN: 9781330071328 出版年：2016 页码：330 W F Massey Forgotten Books

You may ask, Why a new book on Agriculture? Simply because in the numerous books for farmers that have appeared Of late years I know Of none that appeals directly to the man behind the plow in all sections of the country, and tries in the plain language Of the farm to explain many Of the things which the investigations Of scientists have discovered in regard to the treatment Of the soil and the production Of crops. To this effort to explain scientific matters in plain language I have drawn in addition from the experience Of a long life spent in the practical work Of cultivating the soil, and have endeavored to make this a farmers' book on farming, nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps to keep up with the phraseology Of the day, I should call it a treatise on Agronomy. But my Old fashioned notions come in again, and I call it Practical Farming. Agronomy would sound more scientific, but I have not written the book for scientists, and therefore call it by a name that the plain tiller of the soil will under stand.