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A Review of Investigations in Soil Bacteriology by Edward Voorhees 02/15/2024 Books A Review of Investigations in Soil Bacteriology

Soil fertility, broadly interpreted, denotes the crop-producing power of any soil under given climatic conditions, and is itself the resultant of many forces often opposed to one another. It is no easy task to establish the correlation of these several forces, and to assign to each its true position...
Forage Crops for Soiling, Silage, Hay and Pasture 02/15/2024 Books Forage Crops: For Soiling, Silage, Hay and Pasture

This work is intended to give brief and practical farming suggestions that will be helpful in the growing and using of forage crops. Special attention has been given to soiling crops and to rotations, in order to suggest a continuous supply of forage throughout the growing season, a subject...
First Principles of Agriculture by Edward B. Voorhees 02/15/2024 Books First Principles of Agriculture

The purpose of this book is to state in logical order the elementary principles of scientific agriculture, and to show the relation of these scientific facts to farm practice. The need of such a book has been strongly felt by the author in his work as a teacher, not only...
02/14/2024 Person Edward B. Voorhees, D.Sc.

Agricultural chemist; agt. U.S. Dept. Agr. for Irrigation in New Jersey since 1896; prof. agriculture, Rutgers Coll., since 1890; supt. N. J. Agrl. Coll. farm since 1896; Republican. Born June 22, 1856, at Mine Brook, N. J., son of John and Sarah (Dilley) Voorhees. Pres. since 1901, N.J. state Bd....
02/14/2024 Farm Log Breaking up Soil

These are the first days after the recent snow that the ground is not pure slime. The parts of the property that look like playa are being turned over by shovel (and later by rototiller) so that seeds can gain a foothold in broken soil. I noticed long ago...
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