RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING

The following publications present challenges faced by agriculture today:

• After 100 Years - 1962 Yearbook of Agriculture. USDA


• Conquest of the Land through 7000 Years. USDA
• Acres, U.S.A. (monthly newspaper). Charles Walters, Jr., editor.


• The Case for Eco-Agriculture. Charles Walters, Jr. Acres. U.S.A.
  
• The Closing Circle. Barry Commoner, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.


• Crops & Soils Magazine. The American Society of Agronomy.


• Food, Farming, and the Future. Friend Sykes. Faber & Faber, Ltd.


• The Hungry Planet. George Borgstrom. Macmillan Publishing Co.
  
• Malabar Farm. Louis Bromfield. Ballantine Books, Inc.
  
• Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology. Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, W.H. Freeman & Co.


• Since Silent Spring. Frank Graham, Jr. Fawcett World Library


• Small is Beautiful -- Economics As If People Mattered. E. F. Schumacher. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.


• Soils & Men - 1938 Yearbook of Agriculture. USDA


• The Wastes of Civilization. J. C. Wylie. Faber & Faber, Ltd.

Those books listed below will help in understanding the soil as a foundation of successful agriculture:

• The Albrecht Papers. Dr. William A. Albrecht. Acres, U.S.A.

Farming With Nature. Joseph A Cocannouer. Arco Publishing Co., Inc.

• Neal Kinsey's Hands-On Agronomy. Neal Kinsey & Charles Walters, Acres, U.S.A.


• The Living Earth. Peter Farb. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.


• The Soil and Health. Sir Albert Howard. Schocken Books, Inc.


• Soil - 1957 Yearbook of Agriculture. USDA


• Soils and Men - 1938 Yearbook if Agriculture. USDA
• Soils: An Introduction to Soils and Plant Growth, 3rd edition. Roy L. Donahue. Prentice-Hall, Inc.


• Soil Development. Edward H. Faulkner. Univ. of Oklahoma Press.


• Soil Fertility and Animal Health. William Albrecht. Fred Hahne Printing Co.


• Soil Fertility and Fertilizers. Samuel L. Tisdale and G.E. Nelson. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.


• Soil: Use and Improvement. J. H. Stallings. Prentice-Hall, Inc.


• The Web of Life. John H. Storer. New American Library.


• Weeds: Guardians of the Soil. Joseph A. Cocannouer. Devin-Adair Co., Inc.


• What Every Gardener Should Know About Earthworms. Dr. Henry Hopp. Garden Way Publishing Co.


• Your Garden Soil. R. M. Carleton. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.

• The Bug Book -- Harmless Insect Controls. John & Helen Philbrick. Garden Way Publishing Co.


• Companion Plants and How to Use Them. Helen Philbrick & Richard Gregg. Devin-Adair Co., Inc.


• Down-to-Earth Vegetable Gardening Know-How. Richard O. Raymond. Garden Way Publishing Co.


• Five Acres and Independence. M. G. Kains. Dover Publications, Inc.


• Millennial Agriculture - The New Eden. Paul Syltie. Triumph Publishing.


• Gardening Without Poisons. Beatrice T. Hunter. Houghton Mifflin Co.


• The "Have-More" Plan. Carolyn Robinson. Garden Way Publishing Co.


• How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits by the Organic Method. J.I. Rodale. Rodale Press, Inc.


• Improving Garden Soil With Green Manure: A Guide for the Home Gardener. Richard Alther. Garden Way Publishing Co.


• Natural Poultry Keeping. Jim Worthington. Soil Association.


• Organic Farming. Hugh Corley. Faber & Faber, Ltd.


• Organic Farming Yearbook of Agriculture. Organic Gardening Editors. Rodale Press, Inc.


• The Organic Way to Plant Protection. Editors of Organic Gardening and Farming. Rodale Press, Inc.


• The Stockman's Handbook. M. E. Ensminger. Interstate Printers and Publishers, Inc.