The soil and health
Subtitle: a study of organic agriculture
By: Sir Albert Howard ; assisted by Louise E. Howard
Contributors: Howard, Louise E.
Publisher: Oxford City Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Oxford City, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781849025140
Subjects: Soils; Organic farming; Organic fertilizers; Plant diseases; Organic gardening
Notes: Originally published: New York : Devin-Adair Company, 1947.
Table of contents: title: The part played by soil fertility in agriculture; title: The operations of nature; title: Systems of agriculture; title: The maintenance of soil fertility in Great Britain; title: Industrialism and the profit motive; title: The intrusion of science; title: Disease in present-day farming and gardening; title: Some diseases of the soil; title: The diseases of crops; title: Disease and health in livestock; title: Soil fertility and human health; title: The nature of disease; title: The problem of manuring; title: Origins and scope of the problem; title: The Indore process and its reception by the farming and gardening worlds; title: The reception of the Indore process by the scientists; title: A final survey.