HIGH SCHOOL TEXTS ON CROPS AND TILLAGE 



Livingston's Field Crop Production 424 p ag es, $ f . 40 



The book is simple and non-technical in style and intensely 

 practical, the topics treated being those of immediate interest 

 and profit to students who expect to become actual farmers. It 

 points out the "better way" of raising farm crops, of selecting 

 the field, of preparing the soil, of sowing the seed, of cultivating 

 the plant, of harvesting the crop. 



After an introductory view of the whole field of plant life 

 and crop rotation, there are twenty chapters on different crops, 

 for example, corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice, buckwheat, 

 perennial grasses, annual grasses, clovers, alfalfa, root crops, 

 fibre crops, etc. There is a chapter also on marketing grain. 



Harris and Stewart's Principles of Agronomy 



430 pages, $1.40 



Deals with the practice that underlies success in crop pro- 

 duction and will be welcomed by those schools that emphasize, 

 in the agriculture course, the field crop studies. The student 

 is introduced in this book to the four elements that will affect 

 his success in raising crops for market. First, the nature of the 

 plant and its activities ; then, the composition of soils ; next, 

 the characteristics of the principal field crops and details re- 

 garding their cultivation and care; finally, the principles of 

 farm management. When one has surveyed the subject from 

 these four points of view he has a clear idea of what is involved 

 in the practical problem of crop production. He sees that 

 results are determined by the character of the plant, by the 

 soil, and by the management as well as by the crops themselves. 



Lyon's Soils and Fertilizers ass pages, %i.x<> 



The subject matter is presented in simple non-technical style 

 and presents first, ten chapters on soil, covering such topics as 

 Soil Formations, Texture and Structure of Soil, Organic Matter, 

 Soil Water, Plant Food Materials, Acid and Alkali Soils. There 

 are nine chapters on fertilizers. First the four or five general 

 types are discussed and then such applied practice as The 

 Purchase and Mixing, and The Use of Fertilizers, Farm Manures 

 and Green Manures and Crop Rotation. 



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