Farming and gardening for health or disease
By: by Sir Albert Howard assisted by Louise E. Howard
Publisher: Faber and Faber limited
Published: 1945
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Soil; Fertilizers; Botany; Soils; Plant diseases; Compost
Notes: "First published in Mcmxlv."
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Introduction; title: Part one: The part played by soil fertility in agriculture (2. The operations of Nature ; 3. Systems of agriculture ; 4. The maintenance of soil fertility in Great Britain; title: 5. Industrialism and the profit motive ; 6. The intrusion of science); title: Part two: Disease in present-day farming and gardening (7. Some diseases of the soil ; 8. The diseases of crops ; 9. Disease and health in livestock ; 10. Soil fertility and human health ; 11. The nature of disease); title: Part three: The problem of manuring (12. Origins and scope of the problem ; 13. The Indore process and its reception by the farming and gardening worlds ; 14. The reception of the Indore process by the scientists); title: Part four: Suggestions and conclusions (15. A final survey); title: Appendices (A: Progress made on a tea estate in north Bengal ; B: Compost making in Rhodesia ; C: The utilization of municipal wastes in South Africa ; D: Farming for profit on a 750-acre farm in Wiltshire with organic manures as the sole medium of re-fertilization)