Crop Management and Soil Conservation

Contents I 1 Balancing crop production and maintaining fertility 2 Surveying crop production from the farm management standpoint 3 The nature and use of crop plants 4 The growth and maturing of crop plants 5 The nature of soils 6 Protecting our soil from erosion 7 Manuring fertilizing and liming field crops 8 Growing best-adapted crops 9 Securing the best crop varieties 10 Growing seed on the farm 11 Growing crops in rotation 12 Preparing seed beds; planting and cultivating crops 13 Harvesting crops and cooperative programs 15 Controlling crop diseases 16 Controlling insect pests 17 Controlling weeds 18 Planning improvements in crop-management and soil-conservation programs for specific farms II 19 Corn growing 20 Wheat and rye growing 21 Oats barely buckwheat and flax growing 22 Sorghum growing 23 Growing soybeans and cowpeas 24 Growing the clovers 25 Alfalfa and sweet clover growing 26 Growing lespedeza and other legumes 27 Growing grasses and legumes for hay pasture 28 Managing pastures 29 Growing annual grasses and legumes for hay pasture green-manuring and cover-crop purposes 30 Potato growing 31 Field-bean growing 32 Sugar-beet growing and the growing of other root crops 33 Growing special field-truck crops 34 The home-farm food supply Food from the garden fields woods and ponds IndexIt is primary object of this book in dealing with specific crops to present in a simple way the major operations that will enable the grower to grow and market his crops successfully Practices that are effective in reducing yields improving crop qualities maintaining fertility and marketing efficiently are given particular emphasisThis book will aid individual growers in improving their crop rotations and increasing their profits through efficient production methods It is also the desire of the authors that the importance of balancing production in accordance with market demands protecting soils from erosion losses and depletion by exhaustive farming will be thoroughly understood by all who read this book 570 pp.…