Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement, credited to Alva Agee, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Alva Agee. Read in English by KHand This book is not a technical treatise and is designed only to point out the plain, every-day facts in the natural scheme of making and keeping soils productive. It is concerned with the crops, methods, and fertilizers that favor the soil. The viewpoint, all the time, is that of the practical man who wants cash compensation for the intelligent care he gives to his land...Experiment stations and practical farmers have developed a dependable science within recent years, and there is no jarring of observed facts when we get hold of the simple philosophy of it all. Summary from the Introduction.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
• Author credits: Alva Agee
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 4:51:57

Catalogue topics

• agriculture
• farming
• soil
• crops

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 13:44
2. 02 - The Need of Lime — 13:47
3. 03 - Applying Lime — 16:12
4. 04 - Organic Matter — 11:14
5. 05 - The Clovers — 14:58
6. 06 - Alfalfa — 14:07
7. 07 - Grass Sods — 10:51
8. 08 - Grass Sods (Continued) — 11:18
9. 09 - Sods for Pastures — 10:03
10. 10 - The Cowpea — 10:52
11. 11 - Other Legumes and Cereal Catch Crops — 13:33
12. 12 - Stable Manure — 11:01
13. 13 - Care of Stable Manure — 11:26
14. 14 - The Use of Stable Manure — 12:29
15. 15 - Crop-rotations — 12:56
16. 16 - The Need of Commercial Fertilizers — 13:36
17. 17 - Commercial Sources of Plant-food — 20:29
18. 18 - Purchasing Plant-food — 11:29
19. 19 - Home-mixing of Fertilizers — 13:07
20. 20 - Mixtures for Crops — 13:23
21. 21 - Tillage — 11:39
22. 22 - Control of Soil Moisture — 8:10
23. 23 - Drainage — 11:33

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