CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER L 



Farming as a Business. High Farming and Good Farming. Summer-fallow- 

 ing and Plowing under Clover. We must raise larger Crops per Acre. 

 Destruction of Weeds. Farming is Slow Work. It requires Personal At- 

 tention >j 



CHAPTER II. 



What is Manure ? The definitions given by the Deacon and the Doctor 19 



CHAPTER in. 



Something about Plant-food. All soils on which plants grow contain it. 

 The Season. -Water, Shade, Light, and Mulch, not Manures.-Several Def- 

 initions of Manure 21 



CHAPTER IV. 



Natural Manure. -Accumulated Plant food in the Soil. Exhaustion of the 

 Soil. Why our Crops are so Poor. How to get Larger Crops. We must 

 Drain, Cultivate thoroughly, and Make Richer Manure 23 



CHAPTER V. 



Swamp-muck and Peat as Manure. Draining Swamp-land. Composition of 

 Peat and Muck 29 



CHAPTER VL 



What is Potential Ammonia 31 



CHAPTER VII. 



Tillage is Manure. The Doctor's Lecture on Manure 32 



CHAPTER VI1L 



Summer-fallowing. Mr. Lawes' crop every other year. Wheat after Bar- 

 ley. For Larger Crops raise less frequently, and Manure Higher ; also 

 keep better Stock, and Feed Higher 34 



CHAPTER IX. 



How to Restore a Worn-out Farm The Author's Farm. Tillage renders the 

 Plant-food stored in the soil available. Cultivated Lands contain less 

 Plant-food, but are more productive. Grass alone will not make rich land. 37 



CHAPTER X. 



How to Make Manure. We must get it out of the Land 41 



CHAPTER XI. 



The Value of the Manure depends upon the Food not upon the Animal 43 



CHAPTER XII. 



Foods which Make Rich Manure. Table giving the composition of 31 kinds 

 of Food, and the value of the Manure they yield. Cotton-seed Cake. 

 English and German Clover. Nitrogenous matter in Rich and Poor Foods. 

 Manure from Corn compared with that from Straw 45 



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