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  • Agriculture for Beginners

    by Midwest Journal Press, Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens ...
    Series Book 2 - Living With the Land
    Since its first publication "Agriculture for Beginners" has found a welcome in thousands of schools and homes.Naturally many suggestions as to changes, additions, and other improvements have reached its authors.The authors hope and think that the remaking of the book has added to its usefulness and attractiveness.They believe now, as they believed before, that there is no line of separation ... Read more

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  • Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies

    Household Methods of Preparation

    by Midwest Journal Press, Maria Parloa, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 3 - Living With the Land
    Fruits supply a variety of flavors, sugar, acids, and a necessary waste or bulky material for aiding in intestinal movement. They are generally rich in potash and soda salts and other minerals. Most fresh fruits are cooling and refreshing. The vegetable acids have a solvent power on the nutrients and are an aid to digestion when not taken in excess.In the season when each kind of fruit is ... Read more

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  • The Vegetable Garden

    What, When, and How to Plant

    by Midwest Journal Press, Farmer's Cycolpedia, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 27 - Living With the Land
    Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Northern and Eastern farms is the home vegetable garden. Even where no orchard has been planted, and where the ornamental surroundings of the home have been neglected, a fairly well-kept garden in which are grown a number of the staple kinds of vegetables is generally to be found.In many cases the principal interest in the garden is manifested by the ... Read more

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  • Our Farm of Four Acres

    And the Money We Made By It

    by Midwest Journal Press, Miss Coulton, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 21 - Living With the Land
    This little volume will possess rare interest for all who own a "four-acre farm," or, indeed, a farm of any number of acres. Its chief value to the American reader does not consist in its details of practice, but in the enunciation and demonstration of certain principles of domestic economy of universal application.The practice of terra-culture must be varied to meet the different conditions of ... Read more

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  • Weeds - Guardians of the Soil

    by Midwest Journal Press, Joseph A. Cocannouer, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 61 - Living With the Land
    SO FAR as we are able to determine this is the first book to be written in praise of weeds. According to Joseph Cocannouer, weeds -- the common ragweeds, pigweeds, pusleys and nettles, to mention four -- perform the following valuable services among others:They bring minerals, especially those which have been depleted, up from the subsoil to the topsoil and make them available to crops. This is ... Read more

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  • Soil Fertility, Animal Health

    With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration

    by Midwest Journal Press, William A. Albrecht, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 54 - Living With the Land
    Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in a position to furnish us, in many ways, models which we can follow in our own operations.Before the ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Soil and The Farm That Won't Wear Out

    by Midwest Journal Press, Cyril G. Hopkins, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 60 - Living With The Land
    These two books explain each other.The first is a fictional account, based on the science behind agriculture.The second is a shortened explanation of that science.When you read his fiction-based-on-fact, you can get moved by the drama, but also get educated meanwhile.Even through what seems to be archaic sterotypes, there is completely valid education to get while you are entertained.That is the ... Read more

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  • Farm Mechanics

    Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm.

    by Midwest Journal Press, Herbert A. Shearer, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 7 - Living With The Land
    More mechanical knowledge is required on the farm than in any other line of business. If a farmer is not mechanically inclined, he is under the necessity of employing someone who is.Some farms are supplied with a great many handy contrivances to save labor. Farmers differ a great deal in this respect. Some are natural mechanics, some learn how to buy and how to operate the best farm machinery, ... Read more

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  • Keeping Your Dairy Healthy

    An Outline of Bateriology

    by Midwest Journal Press, H. L. Russell, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 22 - Living With the Land
    Modern dairying is attempting to build its more accurate knowledge upon a broader and surer foundation, and in doing this is seeking to ascertain the cause of well-established processes. In this, bacteriology is playing an important rôle. Indeed, it may be safely predicted that future progress in dairying will, to a large extent, depend upon bacteriological research.An exposition of its principles ... Read more

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  • Grass Productivity

    An Introduction to Rational Grazing

    by Midwest Journal Press, Andre Voisin, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 10 - Living With the Land
    SIMPLE questions often help us to understand problems better; and I think it indispensable, at the beginning of this work, to ask a question which appears simple in the extreme:“What is grazing?”The answer is generally as follows:“Causing grass to be eaten by an animal.”That is correct! But here is another answer which, to my mind, is more realistic:“Causing the grass and the animal to meet.”Since ... Read more

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  • The Cow and Her Grass

    Rational Grazing - A Manual of Grass Productivity

    by Midwest Journal Press, Andre Voisin, A. Lecomte ...
    Series Book 4 - Living With the Land
    This book by Messrs Voisin and Lecomte comes at the right moment. It is a synthesis of M. Voisin's important study, Grass Productivity. This manual presents the chief ideas of two specialists. Since they are also excellent practitioners, they have applied these ideas before recommending them.Their evocative picture of 'the meeting of cow and grass' poses the true problem of the management of ... Read more

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  • Five Acres and Independence

    The Farm That Won't Wear Out

    by Midwest Journal Press, Maurice G. Kains, Cyril G. Hopkins ...
    Series Book 62 - Living With the Land
    A collection containing:Five Acres and Independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm by Maurice G. KainsThe Farm That Won't Wear Out by Cyril G. HopkinsPeople who think they “would like to have a little farm” naturally fall into two groups; those who are sure to fail and those likely to succeed. This book is written to help both! Its presentation of advantages ... Read more

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