Publisher's Synopsis
This book is not a technicaltreatise and is designed only to point out the plain, everydayfacts in the natural scheme of making and keeping soilsproductive. It is concerned with the crops, methods, andfertilizers that favor the soil. The viewpoint, all the time, is that of the practical man who wants cash compensationfor the intelligent care he gives to his land. The farmingthat leads into debt, and not in the opposite direction, ispoor farming, no matter how well the soil may prosperunder such treatment. The maintenance and increaseof soil fertility go hand in hand with permanent incomefor the owner when the science that relates to farming isrightly used. Experiment stations and practical farmershave developed a dependable science within recent years, and there is no jarring of observed facts when we get holdof the simple philosophy of it al
