The soil and health a study of organic agriculture Sir Albert Howard ; with a new introduction by Wendell Berry

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: ENG Series: Culture of the land: a series in the new agrarianismPublication details: Lexington University Press of Kentucky 2006Description: xxviii, 307 p., 15 p. of plates ill. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0813191718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780813191713 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 631.584 22
LOC classification:
  • S605.5
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Contents:
The operations of nature -- Systems of agriculture -- The maintenance of soil fertility in Great Britain -- Industrialism and the profit motive -- The intrusion of science -- Some diseases of the soil -- The diseases of crops -- Disease and health in livestock -- Soil fertility and human health -- The nature of disease -- Origins and scope of the problem -- The Indore process and its reception by the farming and gardening worlds -- The reception of the Indore process by the scientists -- A final survey.
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Originally published: New York : Devin-Adair Company, 1947

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The operations of nature -- Systems of agriculture -- The maintenance of soil fertility in Great Britain -- Industrialism and the profit motive -- The intrusion of science -- Some diseases of the soil -- The diseases of crops -- Disease and health in livestock -- Soil fertility and human health -- The nature of disease -- Origins and scope of the problem -- The Indore process and its reception by the farming and gardening worlds -- The reception of the Indore process by the scientists -- A final survey.