Wealth From the Soil (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Colvin Cullen Bowsfield

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330197763 ISBN 13 : 9781330197769

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Practical pest and disease control for healthier home gardens and small farms

This guide offers proven, low‑tech methods you can use in your garden or on a small farm to protect crops and boost yields. It covers common pests and diseases, including beetles, wilt in tomatoes, and cucumber rot, with simple steps you can implement now.

With clear, actionable guidance, it shows how to use natural enemies, crop rotation, resistant varieties, and careful sanitation to keep problems in check. The book also discusses practical helpers like lime dust, safe sprays, and the role of soil health in plant resilience.

You'll find techniques that balance effective control with environmental care, aiming to reduce losses while preserving harvest quality.

• Recognize common pests and diseases and understand how they affect crops
• Apply practical, low‑cost controls, including biological and cultural methods
• Use crop rotation and disease‑resistant varieties to protect future plantings
• Improve soil and garden hygiene to support healthier harvests

Ideal for home gardeners and small‑scale farmers seeking dependable, easy‑to‑implement strategies.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

There are substantial and impelling reasons for the publication of a book like Wealth From theS oil. This volume was written to serve as a stimulus to the agricultural interests of A merica, but more particularly as an aid to the many town people who wish to become farmers and land owners. It is feasible for city men and women to take land and engage in farming. If they apply to agriculture those principles which make for success in commercial affairs they will succeed on the land. Specific knowledge of farming will be acquired in due time, and every family that moves from the city to the country is helping to solve the greatest of our sociological and economic questions. When I wrote the bpok entitled Making the Farm Pay, I saw the urgent need of a direct and inspirational appeal to farmers to place themselves in line with commercial progress. That work is successful beyond expectations and is performing a useful service, but it had not been long from the press when I discovered that town people were buying it quite extensively and showing fully as much interest in agricultural questions as the farmers themselves. Dwellers in cities are not only buying farm literature but they are reading it and studying it in the public libraries as never before. This is because they are dissatisfied with their present environments and desire a radical change from the conditions of life now confronting the average family in a city. There are many such persons who realize that they would be better off on farms and in fact that their sole chance of reaching a state of independence rests in their acquirement of land. Thousands, therefore, are turning to rural life and thousands more like them are yearning for land ownership and homes in the country.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Wealth From the Soil

There are substantial and impelling reasons for the publication of a book like "Wealth From the Soil." This volume was written to serve as a stimulus to the agricultural interests of America, but more particularly as an aid to the many town people who wish to become farmers and land owners.

It is feasible for city men and women to take land and engage in farming. If they apply to agriculture those principles which make for success in commercial affairs they will succeed on the land. Specific knowledge of farming will be acquired in due time, and every family that moves from the city to the country is helping to solve the greatest of our sociological and economic questions.

When I wrote the book entitled "Making the Farm Pay," I saw the urgent need of a direct and inspirational appeal to farmers to place themselves in line with commercial progress. That work is successful beyond expectations and is performing a useful service, but it had not been long from the press when I discovered that town people were buying it quite extensively and showing fully as much interest in agricultural questions as the farmers themselves. Dwellers in cities are not only buying farm literature but they are reading it and studying it in the public libraries as never before. This is because they are dissatisfied with their present environments and desire a radical change from the conditions of life now confronting the average family in a city. There are many such persons who realize that they would be better off on farms and in fact that their sole chance of reaching a state of independence rests in their acquirement of land.

Thousands, therefore, are turning to rural life and thousands more like them are yearning for land ownership and homes in the country.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330197763
• ISBN 13: 9781330197769
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
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